https://youtu.be/Z4pfMDkzLy8 24 times more paintings than sculptures 16,000: this is the number of painted works officially produced by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) and inventoried in his catalogue raisonné. In 2000 the modern art historian Werner...
This October Hamad Al Thani and Gordon Getty are selling their collections of classical decorative art. The anticipated awaking of a sleeping beauty of the art market
A Porsche and a Boulle desk “Thirty years ago, when you wanted to show you were successful, first you’d buy a Porsche, followed by a Boulle desk, but those days are long gone, and familiarity with these high-quality furnishings has been lost.”...
Contemporary art market: a trajectory in overdrive
Michael Armitage On 21 September one of the most highly anticipated exhibitions on the global contemporary art scene opened at the White Cube gallery in London, showcasing the work of British-Kenyan artist Michael Armitage (born in 1984)....
Docent Art, the Tinder for art: an app to find the artworks you’re going to fall in love with
https://youtu.be/RmM1xioajZg Many fairs Between the end of August and the beginning of September there are fairs of a good standard taking place in Marseille (Artorama), Copenhagen (Chart), Monopoli in Puglia in Italy (Italics), New York...
Tefaf Maastricht: the fair of extraordinary objects
You are rich Imagine that you are rich, very rich, and that you love art. Another possibility: imagine you are a curious die-hard fan of things created by man, without boundaries of time or space. If you recognize yourself in one of these two...
Art Basel is almost back to normal and contemporary art continues to be very, very expensive
Turbulent times In these turbulent times for the economy, geopolitics, public health, and society, you might be surprised to learn that contemporary art prices are at an all-time high. Within this context we see the opening of Art Basel from 16...
The Hubert de Givenchy mega-sale in Paris: a challenge for Christie’s
https://youtu.be/Ux4oq351fQg Audrey Hepburn Hubert de Givenchy became a legendary figure thanks to two women. The first, who is the embodiment of cinematic grace, is Audrey Hepburn, for whom he designed the legendary silhouettes worn in films...
Sanyu: the cursed artist in Paris who became the star of the Chinese modern art market
Unfair artworld The art world can be very unfair. Imagine a painter with a unique, fascinating style who makes compositions (nudes, animals, flowers, landscapes…) in pared-back and fluid forms, animated by strong contrasting colours, that are...
New York: six artworks that explain the good results at auction despite the global economic and geopolitical situation
Positive signs The official shop window of the global art market consists of a series of sales at auction organized twice a year in New York by Christie’s, Sotheby’s and to a lesser extent Phillips. At the time of writing this article the...
Robert Storr: “the art world today is almost entirely commercial”. A meeting with the great American art critic capable of numerous premonitions
https://youtu.be/P3i5fvE8ti8 Media hype As the modern and contemporary art sales opened with the auctioning of a portrait of Marilyn from 1964 by Andy Warhol for 195 million dollars, we realize that the media hype surrounding works presented at...
Warhol, the big comeback with the Shot Marilyn from the Ammann collection
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vgoz9L5WZqQ To shoot It’s all a question of language. In English people employ the same verb to mean “taking a photo” and “firing a gun”: to shoot. The scene took place in the autumn of 1964 in New York...
Brussels: while waiting for Christopher Wool, the futurist art of Neil Beloufa and the spiritual paintings of Cassi Namoda
Christopher Wool On 2 June 2022 Brussels will see the opening at the new and third space restored by the Xavier Hufkens gallery, over 2500m2, of an exhibition of one of the legends of American art from the late 20th century, Christopher Wool...