Archive
Artmarket.com releases the Artprice 2021 Global Art Market Report showing a 60% growth in turnover and a paradigm shift marked by the arrival of NFTs
Our 24th Art Market Report offers an analysis of global auction sales of fine art, including paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs, print, videos, installations, tapestries – and NFTs – but excluding antiques, anonymous cultural property and furniture. It covers the period from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021.
All prices indicated in this report refer to public auction results including buyer’s fees. All references to $ refer to US dollars.
The the global art market’s performance in 2021 was unprecedented, putting the historic tragedy of the Covid 19 pandemic firmly behind it.
The market data shows a spectacular 60% increase in auction turnover in 2021 versus 2020, despite the continuation of the pandemic. The migration of the art market into the virtual sphere of the Internet is now a reality on all 5 continents, almost relegating the need for physical auction rooms to history.
Live online sales by Auction Houses increased 720% worldwide over the two years of the COVID pandemic. This level of growth was previously anticipated for 2025-2027.
Artprice by Artmarket is pleased to announce the publication of its 24th Global Art Market Report ( 2021), available free of charge, in full and in three languages, online as well as in PDF format:
English: https://imgpublic.artprice.com/pdf/the-art-market-in-2021.pdf
French: https://imgpublic.artprice.com/pdf/le-marche-de-lart-en-2021.pdf
Mandarin: https://imgpublic.artprice.com/pdf/zh-the-art-market-in-2021.pdf
Key market data for 2021:
Global art auction turnover reached $17.08 billion, a 60% increase versus 2020.
Turnover from Fine Art sales in the West rose 68% to a total of $10.9 billion.
Revenue from Fine Art sales in China grew 43% to a total of $5.9 billion.
The number of lots exchanged in auctions worldwide reached an all-time record of 663,900 up 29%.
The average price of the lots sold was $25,730 and the median price was $930.
The unsold rate contracted to 31% thanks mainly to online sales.
The Contemporary Art index showed a +3% growth.
Contemporary Art accounted for 20% of the Art Market, compared to 3% in 2000.
Global turnover from fine art auctions
Soft Power
With a total turnover of $5.95 billion (35% of the global total) China hammered more fine art auction proceeds than the USA with its total of $5.79 billion (34%).
With a total of $1.99 billion, the UK was 10% down versus the level it posted in 2019.
The top three national markets in the global art market accounted for 80% of global art auction turnover.
For the first time in its history, France’s annual total exceeded $1 billion at auction, at last becoming a major player in the global art market.
The German market secured 5th place in the global ranking and attracted Sotheby’s to Cologne.
South Korea multiplied its art auction turnover by four, generating $237 million.
China in first position
This report shows that China has once again reached the top position in the global national ranking in terms of art auction dynamism, very clearly demonstrating its ‘serious competitor’ status versus the United States. While China’s market has its own codes, this makes it all the more interesting and it is also why the editorial partnership between Artprice and Artron is both exciting and extremely relevant to the global reality of a rapidly changing market.
Top 10 countries by Fine Art & NFT auctions (evolution vs. 2020)
1. China (Artron): $ 5,953,355,500 (+43.0%)
2. United States: $5,794,793,900 (+102.3%)
3. United Kingdom: $1,996,657,600 (+28.6%)
4. France: $1,008,464,700 (+71.8%)
5. Germany: $356,967,400 (+18)
6. South Korea: $237,290,600 (+369.90%)
7. Italy: $212,554,100 (+49.1%)
8. Switzerland: $193,884,700 (+74.7% )
9. Japan: $167,464,400 (+75.6%)
10. Poland: $142,070,800 (+66.5%)
Auction Houses
Sotheby’s and Christie’s hammer 49% of the global art auction market with $4.4 billion and $4 billion respectively.
Poly and China Guardian are quite a long way behind, with $824 million and $677 million.
Poly and Phillips teamed up in Hong Kong and hammered $175 million together.
Ketterer, with $97 million in 2021, was the leading Auction House in Continental Europe.
Artcurial, France’s leading auction house, sold 3,800 artworks for $91 million.
Artists and auctions
In 2021, one lot fetched over $100 million: Pablo Picasso’s Seated Woman (1932) at Christie’s New York.
In 1997, the same painting sold for $7.5 million.
In 2021, Picasso, Basquiat, Warhol, Richter and Zhang Daqian were the most successful artists at auction in the world.
Beeple was the most expensive living artist of the year, with a lot that fetched $69.4 million.
Gerhard Richter and Banksy are the world’s most successful living artists at auction.
Banksy totaled 1,186 works sold for $206 million, including a new record at $25.4 million.
Yayoi Kusama is the first woman in history to join Artprice’s Top 10 global artists by turnover.
Jean-Michel Basquiat became the 2nd most successful artist in the world, after Picasso.
For the first time, five major Basquiat works were sold in Hong Kong.
Major trends
1. NFTs offer a whole new way of collecting:
The results for works by Beeple, Pak, Larva Labs, Yuga Labs have made this new market unavoidable.
As soon as they arrived at auction, the 279 NFT lots totaled $232.4 million (more than the photography segment).
2. Young artists broke precocity records (the so-called “red-chip” phenomenon):
Beeple (40 years old), Avery Singer (34 years old), Fewocious (18 years old) reached eye-watering prices.
3. Demand for works by African artists and artists from the African diaspora showed tremendous vitality.
The Art Market 3.0: NFT, Metaverse and Blockchain
thierry Ehrmann, CEO and Founder of Artmarket.com and its Artprice department:
“Internet 2.0 made it possible to be on the Internet. Internet 3.0 is now happening in the Internet. During 2021, with COVID taking so many lives and completely dominating our daily lives and vocabulary, the famous Collins dictionary still considered the word « NFT » to be the most important “word of the year”. Highly controversial, the term is important not just for having been on everyone’s lips, but because it carries within it the seeds of a digital revolution that is impacting the art market in a way we haven’t seen in five centuries. That is why our 2021 Art Market Report begins with this term.”
To fully comprehend the historical impact of NFTs on the art world in 2021, we must go back to the Renaissance when a similar paradigm shift occurred. Thanks to Johannes Gutenberg’s printing house, artists were – for the first time – able to print their first editions. This represented a major transfer of power into the hands of artists.
This evolution allowed artists – for the first time in history – to generate income and to control their own production in their workshops and factories. Today with NFTs, we are experiencing a similar paradigm shift with the same historical importance.
The Metaverse is not about 3D or 2D. It is about the dematerialization of the physical state to a new world where once impossible experiences are now accessible.
During this 21st century of Enlightenment, the art world will be reconfigured around creation and the virtual (but very real) economy, finally providing the necessary support for a much larger population of creators.
Singularity remains the most beautiful signature, even in the virtual world of the Metaverse.
The dematerialization of the Art Market via the Internet took roughly 30 years. With the world of NFTs and the Metaverse, the internet is no longer just a transit vehicle for the Art Market… it is where the art itself will be created and exchanged. We are entering a totally new dimension.
Geographical distribution of Fine Art auction turnover in 2021
In short, despite being strongly impacted by the pandemic – an unprecedented global tragedy in the history of the modern economy – the art market has managed to rebound via the adoption of digital technology in record time. This shift has enabled exponential growth of +60%, despite the continuation of the pandemic more or less everywhere on the world’s five continents. In the West, this spectacular annual growth even reached +68%, a growth level not seen in 25 years.
Images:
[https://imgpublic.artprice.com/img/wp/sites/11/2022/03/image1-EN-Global-Auction-TUrnover_EN.jpg]
[https://imgpublic.artprice.com/img/wp/sites/11/2022/03/image2-EN-geographical-breakdown_EN.jpg]
Copyright 1987-2022 thierry Ehrmann www.artprice.com – www.artmarket.com
- Don’t hesitate to contact our Econometrics Department for your requirements regarding statistics and personalized studies: econometrics@artprice.com
- Try our services (free demo): https://www.artprice.com/demo
- Subscribe to our services: https://www.artprice.com/subscription
Artmarket.com: Artprice looks back over 2021 auction highlights and the NFT phenomenon
The term ‘NFT’ has been elected word of the year 2021 (all languages combined) by the Collins English Dictionary. The blockchain technology supporting the existence of NFTs was officially born in 2017, but it is only in the last ten months that it has attracted the general public’s attention by inviting itself into the art auction sphere. Today, it seems everyone is talking about NFTs…
This new digital market could merge completely with the physical art market; it already represents 8% of global secondary art market auction turnover. However, the two universes might also develop in parallel, with brief forays into each other’s territory, the physical world on one side and the metaverse on the other… like Ying and Yang.
Artprice’s Contemporary Art Price Index – Base 100 on 1 January 2000
Artprice’s Contemporary Art Price Index – Base 100 on 1 January 2000
Botticelli, Portrait of a young man holding a roundel, $92,184,000 at Sotheby’s New York, 28 January 2021
thierry Ehrmann, CEO and Founder of Artmarket.com and its Artprice department: “The appearance of NFTs in the auction sphere represents a genuine revolution, the intensity of which can be explained both by long bottled-up demand and a particularly favorable economic context. Beeple’s initial record ($69.3 million) back in March perfectly illustrates this pent-up demand, the scale of which Christie’s itself had not predicted. NFTs question the art market’s traditional modus operandi, since artists without any market history (but with a huge community on social networks) can, in a few hours, reach prices usually reserved for the likes of René Magritte and Willem de Kooning”.
Artprice by Artmarket.com explains the NFTs for 2022
- Artmarket.com: Perfectly Positioned to Generate Enormous Revenue From Its NFT Marketplace on Artprice-nft.com
- Artmarket.com: Artprice Manifesto – The future of NFTs and the Metaverse
- Artmarket.com: Here’s why the art market, via the NFT revolution, will enjoy exponential growth with Artprice
Artprice looks back at the key developments of the year 2021, quarter by quarter.
Q1: Boticelli vs. Beeple
Unveiled in September 2020, just before a second global wave of the Covid pandemic, Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Roundel (attributed to the Florentine painter Sandro Botticelli) was put up for sale by Sotheby’s in New York on 28 January 2021. Despite doubts surrounding the attribution of the world’s most expensive artwork (Salvator Mundi) to Leonardo da Vinci, and despite a still uncontrollable pandemic, this rare Botticelli masterpiece sold for $92 million, the second highest auction result of all time for a work by an Old Master.
However the biggest surprise of the year came on 11 March 2021 when Christie’s online auction platform sold what looked at first glance like a simple jpeg… for $69.4 million. The artist behind the work, Beeple, was totally unknown to the art market, but he had millions of followers on Instagram who know the 5,000 digital works offered by Christie’s in the form of an NFT. Faced with the unexpected enthusiasm of new bidders, François Pinault’s prestigious auction house accepted payment in a cryptocurrency for the first time in its history.
Q2: A flurry of records in the spring
It took a few months for the art market to fully appreciate the nature and implications of non-fungible tokens. During April 2021, two other major auction houses are also launched the sale of NFTs: Sotheby’s with The Fungible Collection by Pak, and Phillips with the work Replicator by Mad Dog Jones. The prices obtained for these works continued to disconcert collectors and analysts.
Fortunately in May 2021, New York’s traditional major art sales resumed, and a very physical artwork crossed the $100 million threshold for the first time in two years. Woman Seated Near a Window (Marie-Thérèse) (1932) by Pablo Picasso was acquired for $103 million at Christie’s on 13 May 2021. In its wake, almost all of the art market’s major signatures fetched very reassuring prices: Basquiat, Monet, Van Gogh, Warhol,… with lots of artists revising their personal auction records.
Top 5 new artist records recorded in May 2021 in New York
- Richard Diebenkorn: Ocean Park # 40 (1971) – $27,265,500 – 12/05/2021, Sotheby’s
- Larva Labs: 9 Cryptopunks – $16,962,500 – 11/05/2021, Christie’s
- Robert Colescott: George Washington […] (1975) – $15,315,900 – 12/05/2021, Sotheby’s
- Childe Hassam: Flags on 57th Street, Winter (1918) – $12,328,500 – 12/05/2021, Sotheby’s
- Barbara Hepworth: Parent II (1970) – $7,110,000 – 13/05/2021, Christie’s
Q3: Online sales didn’t stop during the summer
Traditionally, the major auction houses have always taken a break from sales during the months of July and August, in conjunction with the closure of art galleries and art fairs. But in 2020, the postponements caused by the covid pandemic and the establishment of new online sales platforms encouraged auction houses to continue part of their activities throughout the summer period, an exercise that was repeated in 2021, with online sales ensuring the circulation of works to all four corners of the globe.
A total of 121,000 fine art lots were auctioned in the third quarter of 2021. This historic transaction intensity for the summer period was largely driven by the Asian market; not just by sessions in Hong Kong, but also in mainland China, South Korea and Japan.
Top 3 Fine Art results in Asia during July and August 2021
- Yayoi Kusama (1929): Pumpkin (1981) – $4,290,000 – 31/07/2021, Mainichi Tokyo
- Fu Baoshi (1904-1965): Spring (1963) – $4,400,000 – 25/07/2021, Xiling Yinshe Hangzhou
- Whan-Ki Kim (1913-1974): 1 -VII 71 # 207 (1971) – $4,152,720 – 24/08/2021, Seoul Auction
Q4: All indicators turn green…
The months of October and November saw countless new records for all creative periods: Jackson Pollock, Gustave Caillebotte, Peter Doig, Frida Kahlo, Banksy, Pierre Soulages, Agnes Martin, etc. The sales of two very prestigious American collections – the Impressionist Cox Collection at Christie’s, and the Post-War Macklowe Collection at Sotheby’s – made the last quarter of 2021 the most prosperous Q4 in American art market history.
Expected to rebound after a 2020 marked by the Covid-19 pandemic, Artprice will be looking more closely at this highly positive turn of events in its upcoming Annual Art Market Report.
Aside from the NFT phenomenon, one of the year’s key trends was the emergence of the Hong Kong market which proved to be absolutely decisive for the global art market as a whole. Not only did it host sales, for the first time, of major works by Jean-Michel Basquiat in Asia, it also hammered new records for major signatures, both Western (Richard Prince) and Asian (Yayoi Kusama). But, above all, Hong Kong emerged as the new hub for red chip artists – i.e. young signatures who trigger passionate bidding – like the American artist Avery Singer and the Ghanaian artist Amaoko Boafo. Last, but not least… Hong Kong is also emerging as one of the major new capitals for NFT sales.
Images:
[https://imgpublic.artprice.com/img/wp/sites/11/2021/12/image1-artprice-index.png]
[https://imgpublic.artprice.com/img/wp/sites/11/2021/12/image2-boticelli.jpeg]
Copyright 1987-2021 thierry Ehrmann www.artprice.com – www.artmarket.com
- Don’t hesitate to c ontact our E conometrics Department for your requirements regarding statistics and personalized studies: econometrics@artprice.com
- Try our services (free demo): https://www.artprice.com/demo
- Subscribe to our services: https://www.artprice.com/subscription
Artmarket.com: Can Frieze 2021 revive London’s weakened position on the international Contemporary art market? (see latest Artprice Report)
As the Hong Kong art market develops at a phenomenal pace, London is relatively less attractive than it was ten years ago. Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips are now selling certain Western masterpieces – for example, by Basquiat, Still, Richter and Ghenie – in Asia rather than in London, reflecting a general shift of the global art market towards the East. Artprice looks more closely at this phenomenon in its latest Contemporary art market report.
Fine Art auction turnover: Hong Kong vs. London
Calmed Tensions (1937) by Wassily Kandinsky, $29.4 million at Sotheby’s London, the best UK auction result so far this year:
thierry Ehrmann , CEO and Founder of Artmarket.com and its Artprice department: “The U K (generating 17% of global auction turnover in H1 2021) has little to fear from France (7%), but is seeing Hong Kong (14%) attract a growing share of the high-end market , particularly works of Contemporary and Post-War Art which have greater soft power significance. I expect to see London make a concerted effort to retain its hold on this segment of the market”.
Market tipping to the East
The most important painting by Gerhard Richter to be auctioned over the past three years, Abstraktes Bild (649-2) (1987), was sold by Sotheby’s in Hong Kong for $28 million. Initially marketed in the late 1980s by Galerie Löhrl in Düsseldorf, the painting was resold in New York by Galerie Barbara Mathes. However, on 6 October 2020, Patrick Drahi’s auction firm (Sotheby’s) chose to include it in a prestigious evening sale in Hong Kong where it fetched $10 million more than its high estimate of $18 million.
The itinerary of this painting clearly reflects Richter’s success on the international art market, but it also reflects a fundamental reality of the global art mMarket: Hong Kong is fast becoming what New York was for European artists ten years ago: a formidable accelerator. The major auction houses are seeing Hong Kong as a new market for iconic pieces but also as a marketplace capable of rapidly boosting young emerging stars.
This year – for the first time ever – Christie’s and Sotheby’s offered a total of three major works by Jean-Michel Basquiat in Hong Kong where they either reached or substantially exceeded their estimates. Together, the three paintings generated over $100 million, a third of the artist’s total auction turnover so far this year. Hong Kong is therefore becoming the world’s second marketplace for this ‘devilish’ signature, after New York.
Two completely different structures
Politically, London and Hong Kong are both experiencing pivotal moments in their histories… but while the former has seen its art sales declining over the last five years, the latter has been experiencing exceptional growth in this domain.
True, the two marketplaces still have very different structures. The UK may be seeing its former colony catching up in terms of fine art auction turnover, but it retains a much more dynamic and diversified offer thanks to its long art market history. The British capital has been at the center of international art auctions since the 19th century, whereas Hong Kong has only been an important market hub since the beginning of this millennium …i.e. not more than 20 years.
This is more or less the global art market context as London’s Frieze Art Fair resumes this week, and there can be no doubt that many of its organizers and participants will be hoping to bring London back into the International art market limelight, offering a savvy mix of Old Master and Ultra-Contemporary artworks.
Images: [https://imgpublic.artprice.com/img/wp/sites/11/2021/10/image1-Londres-Hong-Kong.png]
[https://imgpublic.artprice.com/img/wp/sites/11/2021/10/image2-Wassily-Kandinsky.jpeg]
Copyright 1987-2021 thierry Ehrmann www.artprice.com – www.artmarket.com
- Don’t hesitate to contact our Econometrics Department for your requirements regarding statistics and personalized studies: econometrics@artprice.com
- Try our services (free demo): https://www.artprice.com/demo
- Subscribe to our services: https://www.artprice.com/subscription
Artmarket.com: Artprice registers a record number of Fine Art auction transaction in H1 2021
Throughout the first half of 2021, still seriously inhibited by the health crisis, the Fine Art auction market secured the continued circulation of artworks. In fact, the auction majors managed to project a substantially more attractive image of their activities by a savvy mix of online sales, thematic and charitable sales and a daring collaboration with what would traditionally be called the ‘primary’ market. In addition, the auctioneers have at last opened their doors to dematerialized artworks and have been surfing on a wave of ultra-Contemporary art that has also caught the attention of the mainstream media.
Weekly evolution of global Fine Art auction turnover
Comparison between the last five years
thierry Ehrmann, CEO and f ounder of Artmarket.com and of its Artprice department:
“Artprice has registered the highest -ever number of successful Fine Art adjudications in the world , up +10.5% compared with H1 2019, which already set a historic record.
The absence of international fairs has clearly redirected some collectors to the auction houses (live or online), but the growth in the volume of transactions predates the health crisis and is basically just re-starting again . ”
High-end market vs. affordable market
After a chaotic year 2020, the art market’s auction agenda essentially returned to normal, notably with the resumption of New York’s spring sales. The sessions organized during week 19 (from 10 to 16 May 2021) totaled $1.5 billion in New York, equivalent to 21% of global art auction turnover in H1 2021.
However, our data for the H1 period suggests the art market is still relatively affordable: of the 302,100 lots auctioned around the world, 51% were acquired for less than $1,000, including buyers’ fees. And, unlike the ultra high-end market, these affordable works have been offered and sold very evenly throughout the year. Online sales now even ensure a low level of art market activity during the months of July and August, which are usually marked by a complete standstill.
Fine Art lots sold at auction filtered by price range (H1 2021)
Hong Kong bucks the trend…
The former British colony is now playing a vital role in the international strategies of the auction majors like Christie’s, Sotheby’s, Phillips and Bonhams, but also of China Guardian and Poly Auction, and together they have made Hong Kong the most luxurious art marketplace on the planet.
Only 3,200 Fine Art works were sold in Hong Kong in H1 2021, but they totaled nearly $1 billion ($962 million). In fact, the average price of an artwork in Hong Kong auctions during H1 2021 was $300,000! A price that sets Hong Kong apart from New York (average price $41,000), London ($32,000) and Paris ($10,600), and from the rest of China ($94,000).
In just six months, 18 lots fetched over $10 million in Hong Kong although none reached $50 million. Today, Hong Kong’s ultra high-end market is as intense as London’s, and nine times bigger than the Paris market (where two lots crossed the $10 million threshold in the same period). In mainland China, only eight lots sold for more than $10 million over the same period, but the $50 million threshold was once again breached (for an 18th century work by Xu Yang).
First “unlimited” sale
Sotheby’s sale entitled “The Fungible Collection” was a perfect example of the creativity shown by the major auction houses in H1 2021. The international auction company acquired by Patrick Drahi in 2019 worked directly with the anonymous artist Pak and the web platform Nifty Gateway (without going through a gallery) to sell an unlimited series of NFTs.
Core to the collection was the Open Editions, which allowed collectors to purchase as many fungible cubes as they wished during the sale period for fixed prices. The duration of the sale was three times 15 minutes, spread over three days, and the price rose each day. It resulted in the sale of 23,598 digital cubes: 19,737 cubes at $500 on Day 1; 3,268 cubes at $1,000 on Day 2 and 593 cubes at $1,500 on Day 3. In addition to these small works, there were two unique lots (The Switch for $1.44 million, and The Pixel for $1.35 million) as well as several ‘awards’. Some NFTs (potentially worth several million dollars) were awarded to the best buyers, as well as to anyone who managed to solve a puzzle invented by Pak.
This extraordinary session questioned not only the notion of a digital artwork and its ‘ownership’, but also the notion of value creation in the ‘Art Market 2.0′, in which the offer can be multiplied at a lower cost.
Images:
Copyright 1987-2021 thierry Ehrmann www.artprice.com – www.artmarket.com
- Don’t hesitate to c ontact our E conometrics D epartment for your requirements regarding statistics and personalized studies: econometrics@artprice.com
- Try our services (free demo): https://www.artprice.com/demo
- Subscribe to our services: https://www.artprice.com/subscription
Artmarket.com: Artprice registers a record number of Fine Art auction transaction in H1 2021
Throughout the first half of 2021, still seriously inhibited by the health crisis, the Fine Art auction market secured the continued circulation of artworks. In fact, the auction majors managed to project a substantially more attractive image of their activities by a savvy mix of online sales, thematic and charitable sales and a daring collaboration with what would traditionally be called the ‘primary’ market. In addition, the auctioneers have at last opened their doors to dematerialized artworks and have been surfing on a wave of ultra-Contemporary art that has also caught the attention of the mainstream media.
Weekly evolution of global Fine Art auction turnover
Comparison between the last five years
thierry Ehrmann, CEO and f ounder of Artmarket.com and of its Artprice department:
“Artprice has registered the highest -ever number of successful Fine Art adjudications in the world , up +10.5% compared with H1 2019, which already set a historic record.
The absence of international fairs has clearly redirected some collectors to the auction houses (live or online), but the growth in the volume of transactions predates the health crisis and is basically just re-starting again . ”
High-end market vs. affordable market
After a chaotic year 2020, the art market’s auction agenda essentially returned to normal, notably with the resumption of New York’s spring sales. The sessions organized during week 19 (from 10 to 16 May 2021) totaled $1.5 billion in New York, equivalent to 21% of global art auction turnover in H1 2021.
However, our data for the H1 period suggests the art market is still relatively affordable: of the 302,100 lots auctioned around the world, 51% were acquired for less than $1,000, including buyers’ fees. And, unlike the ultra high-end market, these affordable works have been offered and sold very evenly throughout the year. Online sales now even ensure a low level of art market activity during the months of July and August, which are usually marked by a complete standstill.
Fine Art lots sold at auction filtered by price range (H1 2021)
Hong Kong bucks the trend…
The former British colony is now playing a vital role in the international strategies of the auction majors like Christie’s, Sotheby’s, Phillips and Bonhams, but also of China Guardian and Poly Auction, and together they have made Hong Kong the most luxurious art marketplace on the planet.
Only 3,200 Fine Art works were sold in Hong Kong in H1 2021, but they totaled nearly $1 billion ($962 million). In fact, the average price of an artwork in Hong Kong auctions during H1 2021 was $300,000! A price that sets Hong Kong apart from New York (average price $41,000), London ($32,000) and Paris ($10,600), and from the rest of China ($94,000).
In just six months, 18 lots fetched over $10 million in Hong Kong although none reached $50 million. Today, Hong Kong’s ultra high-end market is as intense as London’s, and nine times bigger than the Paris market (where two lots crossed the $10 million threshold in the same period). In mainland China, only eight lots sold for more than $10 million over the same period, but the $50 million threshold was once again breached (for an 18th century work by Xu Yang).
First “unlimited” sale
Sotheby’s sale entitled “The Fungible Collection” was a perfect example of the creativity shown by the major auction houses in H1 2021. The international auction company acquired by Patrick Drahi in 2019 worked directly with the anonymous artist Pak and the web platform Nifty Gateway (without going through a gallery) to sell an unlimited series of NFTs.
Core to the collection was the Open Editions, which allowed collectors to purchase as many fungible cubes as they wished during the sale period for fixed prices. The duration of the sale was three times 15 minutes, spread over three days, and the price rose each day. It resulted in the sale of 23,598 digital cubes: 19,737 cubes at $500 on Day 1; 3,268 cubes at $1,000 on Day 2 and 593 cubes at $1,500 on Day 3. In addition to these small works, there were two unique lots (The Switch for $1.44 million, and The Pixel for $1.35 million) as well as several ‘awards’. Some NFTs (potentially worth several million dollars) were awarded to the best buyers, as well as to anyone who managed to solve a puzzle invented by Pak.
This extraordinary session questioned not only the notion of a digital artwork and its ‘ownership’, but also the notion of value creation in the ‘Art Market 2.0′, in which the offer can be multiplied at a lower cost.
Images:
Copyright 1987-2021 thierry Ehrmann www.artprice.com – www.artmarket.com
- Don’t hesitate to c ontact our E conometrics D epartment for your requirements regarding statistics and personalized studies: econometrics@artprice.com
- Try our services (free demo): https://www.artprice.com/demo
- Subscribe to our services: https://www.artprice.com/subscription
Artmarket.com: Artprice analyses the art market’s dazzling recovery from the health crisis in H1 2021, fortified by its digital transformation
In the first semester of 2021 the art auction market managed to recover all of its dynamism. If all goes well, the art fairs will resume in September. They will, however, have to contend with a substantially modified market characterised by the sensational arrival of NFTs and sky-high prices for works by very young and popular artists, both phenomena which suggest a strong urge to shake up the established order. While collectors seem to be in a hurry to invest in what might be called the “Art Market 2.0”, even if it means by-passing galleries, lots of artists also want to take advantage of the art market’s digital transformation, and… the auction houses appear keen to join in the ‘disruptive’ process.
Artprice indicators of the art market ‘s health (H1 2000 – H1 2021)
Auction turnover, Sold lots, Unsold rates and Highest price (first semesters)
According to thierry Ehrmann, President and Founder of Artmarket.com and its Artprice department “Two Art Markets are currently coexisting: one organic, the other disruptive . The first is traditional and takes into account the History of Art, with its codes, its museums, its galleries, its fairs, its biennials, etc. The second reflects a world undergoing a profound reorganization , challeng ing ‘ official history ‘ through movements like #metoo and #blacklivesmatter and clearly oriented towards the numerous political, climatic, health and technological challenges a head ”.
This analysis provides an overview of the transformations undertaken in H1 2021. The distinction between a “new” and an “old” art market is purely theoretical, but it allows us to apprehend the mechanisms now underlying a whole tranche of the market’s transactions. It also allows us to understand how Beeple’s The first 500 days (2021) could be purchased for $69 million against a starting price of just $100… an artist who wasn’t on the radar of any of the market’s key players: no gallery, no exhibitions and no auction results… but who had several million followers on Instagram and the support of Christie’s, one of the oldest and most respectable auction houses on the planet.
Fine Art auction turnover (H1 2000 – H1 2021)
(Broken down by creative periods)
Affordable works at the core of the newly – configured market
Fine art auctions generated $6.9 billion in H1 2021, up 3% versus H1 2019. This performance is extremely reassuring in view of the health crisis, which is still paralyzing whole segments of the cultural scene and is still the source of substantial near-term uncertainty. The auction operators nevertheless managed to generate a turnover equivalent to the average for the ten years before the health crisis (H1 2010 – H1 2019), i.e. since China’s rise on the international art market.
This latest recovery is all the more robust for being based on a record number of transactions: 288,500 artworks were sold in six months, up 5% versus H1 2019. The increase is particularly visible in the affordable segments covering price ranges between $1,000 and $20,000 where the number of lots sold rose 13%. The high-end market slowed somewhat in the first six months of the year: lots sold between $1 and 50 million contracted 1.4%, from 855 lots (in H1 2019) to 843 lots.
The intensity of demand has been confirmed by a significantly lower-than-usual unsold rate. This indicator, which reflects the balance between supply and demand, has fluctuated between 32% and 36% for the past decade. For the first six months of 2021 it was down to 28% and should therefore be watched carefully over the coming months.
Beeple accounted for 1% of the art market
Online sales are now an integral part of auction house strategies. At the start of the year, the Anglo-Saxon giants Christie ‘ s, Sotheby ‘ s and Phillips dematerialized a little more than half of their operations: out of 258 fine art sessions, 133 were conducted exclusively online. These transactions still only generated a tenth (9.3%) of the operators’ turnover as they mainly use this sales channel for entry-level and mid-range lots.
But the automated online platforms set up by the sales companies are, by nature, perfectly suited to NFTs, which have substantial potential in the high-end market. In fact, NFTs already represent a third of the value of online sales, or 2% of the global secondary art market in H1 2021. With his very first sale at Christie’s generating $69 million, Beeple alone accounted for exactly 1% of it!
This new market is at the heart of the disruptive phenomena identified by Artprice and it is indicative of the drive towards innovation within the auction industry. A month after the sale of Beeple’s work at Christie’s, Sotheby’s organised a sale of NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) titled The Fungible Collection by Pak. Ten days later, Phillips offered the first second-generation NFT, a work called Replicator by Mad Dog Jones, which is designed to randomly generate replicas of itself.
Contemporary art out-performs Post-War art
The Contemporary art segment (artists born after 1945) posted a historic performance in H1 2021, up 50% versus H1 2019. The Modern art (-8%) and Post-War (-4%) segments have not yet returned to the levels of intensity that prevailed before the health crisis.
This situation has enhanced the visibility of Contemporary Art, which now accounts for 23% of global fine art auction turnover compared with just 3% twenty years ago. Having generated over $300 million (double Andy Warhol’s total), Jean-Michel Basquiat alone accounted for 4.3% of the global art auction market in H1 2021.
Top 10 artists on the global auction market in H1 2021
© artprice.com
- Pablo PICASSO (Modern Art): $352,169,000
- Jean-Michel BASQUIAT (Contemporary Art): $303,537,000
- Andy WARHOL (Post-War): $ 149,982,000
- Claude MONET (19th century): $131,638,000
- BANKSY (Contemporary Art): $123,328,000
- ZAO Wou-Ki (Modern Art): $114,518,000
- Gerhard RICHTER (Post-War): $97,920,000
- Sandro BOTTICELLI (Former Master ): $94,206,000
- Yoshitomo NARA (Contemporary Art): $85,937,000
- ZHANG Daqian (Modern Art): $82,295,000
Banksy, a sign of the times
At 47, the anonymous street artist Banksy is one of the five most successful signatures on the global art auction market, all creative periods combined! He is even the most lucrative living artist on the planet, and, without the support of either Larry Gagosian or David Zwirner! Universally adored for his poetic and cynical incursions into public spaces, Banksy is revolutionizing the art market with his Pest Control system that allows him to authenticate and control the circulation of hundreds of thousands of unique or limited editions works.
For five years, Banksy’s auction turnover has been growing exponentially: $3 million in 2016, $7 million in 2017, $16 million in 2018, $29 million in 2019, $67 million in 2020 and $123 million in H1 2021. With 913 lots sold at auction in just six months, Banksy now covers all price ranges. With 11 million followers on Instagram, he is already reaching future generations of collectors.
On 23 March 2021, his canvas Game Changer (2020) buried Christie’s estimate at a charity sale and set a new auction record at $23.2 million. The enthusiasm surrounding this work reveals the preferences of an art market in search of shocking works, in tune with current events. The work depicts a young boy abandoning his Batman and his Superman to play with a ‘super-nurse’ doll.
The Hong Kong accelerator
Halted in its growth in 2020, the Hong Kong art market has posted two consecutive semesters stronger than ever. The city is now posting the world’s highest average price for artworks sold at auction: with a total of $962 million hammered from only 3,200 fine art lots sold in H1, the average price is around $300,000. This statistic sets Hong Kong apart from the other major art market capitals since the average price is just $32,000 in London and $41,000 in New York.
Hong Kong also managed to attract three remarkable paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat which each fetched over $35 million. Both Christie’s and Sotheby’s now seem convinced that these masterpieces of American Contemporary Art (which New York’s MoMA regrets not having acquired when they were much more affordable) will sell for better prices in Asia than in London.
In the medium term, Hong Kong could even become the second largest market in the world ahead of the UK, which totaled $1.2 billion in H1 2021 (only 21% more than Hong Kong’s $962 million). Ten years ago, the UK’s secondary art market was nearly five times larger than its former colony (+380%). However, the UK retains a much more diversified art market: in H1 2021, it sold 36,000 works, ten times more than Hong Kong.
Today, the former British colony is essentially playing an accelerator role for the ultra-contemporary art market with Hong Kong buyers showing a greater willingness to bid substantially above estimates, forcing London and New York auctioneers to align their prices with Hong Kong’s results, or risk seeing the works of future art market superstars all sold through Asia.
Artists under 40 generating 7-digit results
Since his death less than two years ago, 62 works by Matthew Wong (1984-2019) have been auctioned in New York, London and Hong Kong.
The ‘international rachet mechanism’ that has affected the prices of this artist’s creations can be seen at work in the prices of other superstars of his generation, born after 1980. The ascensions of artists like Salman Toor, Avery Singer and Amoako Boafo have been incredibly swift. Within a matter of months their works have become simply unavoidable on the international art market. Highly gifted and appearing to be highly emblematic of our era, their works have have been subject to fiercely competitive demand from American, European and Asian collectors at the same time.
Top 5 artists born after 1980 (H1 2021): geographical breakdown of auction turnover
1. Matthew Wong, $30 million: Hong Kong (44%), New York (37%), London (19%)
2. Avery Singer, $10.5 million : Hong Kong (53%), New York (38%), London (8%)
3. Salman Toor, $7.9 million: New York (45%), London (28%), Hong Kong (27%)
4. Ayako Rokkaku, $7.2 million: Hong Kong (40%), Tokyo (35%), Taipei (11%)
5. Amoako Boafo, $5 million: London (35%), New York (33%), Hong Kong (32%)
As we can see above, the sales of works by Japanese artist Ayako Rokkaku (b. 1982) have not followed this schema. Her colorful acrylics on canvas are circulating with substantial intensity in Southeast Asia where 44 of his paintings were auctioned in H1 2021 for an average price of $170,000. Her best works, initially put into circulation by the Amsterdam-based Delaive gallery, almost always end up at auction in Asia.
Blue-chip artists still holding strong
In New York, Pablo Picasso’s Woman Seated by the Window (1932) crossed the $100 million threshold for the first time in 24 months. This result confirms the renewed confidence of both buyers and sellers. The exponential rise in the value of Picasso’s works over the last quarter-century has crystallized, despite the sequence of financial and health crises. The value of this painting evolved from $7.5 million in 1997 to $45 million in 2013, finally reaching $103.4 million this year.
The year 2021 also started very well on New York’s high-end market with the eagerly awaited sale (at the end of January) of a portrait attributed to Sandro Botticelli. Fetching just over $92 million, this was the second best auction result ever recorded for an Old Master behind Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvatore Mundi. However, more than three and a half years after its sale, the $450 million payed in November 2017 for the portrait of Christ holding a crystal orb has become subject to a growing number of questions.
The first six months of 2021 also saw the sale of several Impressionist masterpieces (by Monet, Van Gogh and Cézanne,) as well as a number of masterpieces of American Abstraction and Lyrical Abstraction (by Twombly, Rothko and Chu Teh-Chun, among others). There were also some very famous portraits (Warhol’s Double Elvis and Lucien Freud’s David Hockney). But the period will remain above all marked by the first sales of NFTs and the extraordinary price records for very young artists that Artprice will analyze in detail in its upcoming Contemporary Art Market Report, to be published on the occasion of the Frieze and FIAC art fairs in October.
Images:
Copyright 1987-2021 thierry Ehrmann www.artprice.com – www.artmarket.com
- Don’t hesitate to contact our Econometrics Department for your requirements regarding statistics and personalized studies: econometrics@artprice.com
- Try our services (free demo): https://www.artprice.com/demo
- Subscribe to our services: https://www.artprice.com/subscription
Artmarket.com: ultra-contemporary art conquers auctions, making Artprice subscriptions ever more useful
In the absence of other cultural news, the art world is continuing to discover the joys of online auctions which seem better adapted to dematerialization than other art forums. One consequence has been a very substantial rise in the sale of new creations via auction. Indeed, the number of ultra-contemporary artworks produced less than two years ago and already resold at auction is experiencing phenomenal growth. Several young artists have generated 5- or 6-digit results before their work has even been exhibited by a major museum.
Number of ‘ultra-contemporary’ works sold at auction
[https://imgpublic.artprice.com/img/wp/sites/11/2021/04/1-Ultra-Contemporary-Lots-by-year.png]
“Auctions are currently at the forefront of the international art scene, concentrating all the trends in the Art Market. That’s why the Artprice Databases and our Decision Support Tools have never been so valuable” concludes thierry Ehrmann, President and Founder of Artmarket.com and of its Artprice department.
“Auctions are even attracting a significant section of the primary market; the latest records for Beeple and Banksy were established by works put on sale directly by the artists themselves”. thierry Ehrmann
Artprice Decision Support Tools
[https://imgpublic.artprice.com/img/wp/sites/11/2021/04/2-artmarket-artprice-tools.jpg]
Cautious estimates
Deprived of international art fairs, gallery openings and major exhibitions, collectors are paying more attention to works circulating in the auction sphere. This pushes up the prices which in turn encourages the holders of works by these popular artists to resell them. This stimulation of both supply and demand has allowed the emergence of young art market superstars in the space of just a few months.
Artists under the age of 40, who had never before generated auction results, have suddenly reached dizzying price points with extremely recent works (“the paint is still wet” as we used to say a few years ago). These results are all the more disconcerting for having demolished the estimates posted by the major auction houses, proving either that this acceleration has taken contemporary art specialists completely by surprise… or that they wish to remain cautious.
– Amoako Boafo (1984), The Lemon Bathing Suit (2019)
Estimated: $40,000 – $65,000
Price with fees: $881,400
13/02/2020 Phillips London
– Matthew Wong (1984-2019), The Realm of Appearances (2018)
Estimated: $60,000 – $80,000
Price with fees: $1,820,000
29/06/2020 Sotheby’s New York
– Christina Quarles (1985), Tuckt (2016)
Estimated: $70,000 – $100,000
Price with fees: $655,200
08/12/2020 Phillips New York
On the need to remain vigilant
A few years, or even just a few months after their creation, these canvases have already been sold at auction. A situation that shocks the artists themselves, as Amoako Boafo explained in an interview with Bloomberg in February 2020, titled Hot New Artist Laments That His Work Is Being Flipped for Profit.
So far, the prices of this young Ghanaian artist are holding firm: his 34 paintings put up for sale since 1 January 2020 all found buyers in London, New York and Hong Kong. Artprice nevertheless remains extremely vigilant regarding the development of Amoako Boafo’s market. His next work to come up for sales, a canvas titled Grace (2018) was acquired directly by the seller from the artist and will be offered at Sotheby’s in Hong Kong on 20 April 2021.
www.artprice.com/artist/904704/amoako-boafo/painting/23560098/grace
Images:
[https://imgpublic.artprice.com/img/wp/sites/11/2021/04/1-Ultra-Contemporary-Lots-by-year.png]
[https://imgpublic.artprice.com/img/wp/sites/11/2021/04/2-artmarket-artprice-tools.jpg]
Copyright 1987-2021 thierry Ehrmann www.artprice.com – www.artmarket.com
Don’t hesitate to contact our Econometrics Department for your requirements regarding statistics and personalized studies: econometrics@artprice.com
Try our services (free demo): https://www.artprice.com/demo
Decision support tools, Artprice Indicators ® – Subscribe to our services: https://www.artprice.com/subscription
Artmarket.com: Artprice’s valuation department updates the value of 1999’s five top-selling works at auction
Investing tens of millions of dollars in works by Beeple or Banksy may seem extravagant today, but acquiring the most expensive artworks is statistically a winning strategy. Academic studies1 have shown that a masterpiece effect does indeed exist on the art market: the most expensive works continue to gain more value than the rest of the market. This is corroborated by the analysis conducted by Artprice’s valuation service – Artpricing – on the five top-selling artworks in 1999.
Evolution of the portfolio: 1999 vs. 2021
« By following the five most expensive masterpieces of 1999, Artprice finds that what was considered ‘exorbitantly expensive’ 22 years ago is no longer considered as such today, explains thierry Ehrmann, President and Founder of Artmarket.com and its Artprice department.
“Imagine that in the first quarter of 2021, you acquired the Boticelli portrait, Beeple’s NFT and the three paintings by Basquiat, Banksy and Picasso. How much will these works be worth in a quarter of a century? The future will tell us which are the best operations, but experience so far suggests that a strategy of buying the most expensive works pays the highest dividends”.
The 5 most expensive works at auction in 1999 vs. Artpricing’s low estimates in 2021
- Paul CÉZANNE (1839-1906) – Curtain, jug and fruit bowl (c.1893-1894)
1999: $60,502,500 → 2021: $120,000,000 - Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973) – Woman seated in a garden (1938)
1999: $49,502,500 → 2021: $200,000,000 - Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973) – Nude in a black armchair (1932)
1999: $45,102,500 → 2021: $115,000,000 - Georges SEURAT (1859- 1891) – Paysage, l’île de la Grande Jatte (1884)
1999: $35,202,500 → 2021: $35,000,000 - Paul CÉZANNE (1839-1906) – Kettle and fruits (c.1888-1890)
1999: $29,476,000 → 2021: $60,000,000
Cézanne‘s still lifes have doubled in value
Curtain, jug and fruit bowl (c.1893-1894) was purchased for $60.5 million on 10 May 1999 in New York, well above Sotheby’s estimated range ($25 – 35 million). Twenty years later, this is still the record price for Paul Cézanne at auction. But that doesn’t mean its value has contracted.
Paul Cézanne, Curtain, jug and fruit bowl (c.1893-1894), Oil on canvas. 59.5 x 73 cm
Six months later, a smaller still life, entitled Bouilloire et fruits (Kettle and fruits) (1888-1890), fetched $29.5 million; it was among the top 5 fine art auction results of 1999 and also substantially exceeded its estimated range ($15m – 20 million). Its current value is more or less known, since the work sold on 13 May 2019 at Christie’s New York for $59.3 million.
The price of Paul Cézanne’s still lifes has thus doubled since 1999. This has been confirmed by several other examples, including Still Life (c.1890) purchased for $3.8 million at Sotheby’s in New York on 11 November 1999 and resold for $8.1 million on 14 November 2017 by the same auction house, generating a capital gain of +110%.
Resales within shorter periods suggest that Paul Cézanne’s prices essentially rose at the very beginning of the 21st century. Acquired for $18 million in June 2000 at Christie’s in London, his Nature morte aux fruits et pot de ginger (c. 1895) sold for $37 million at Sotheby’s New York on 7 November 2006.
In view of these results, it is reasonable to estimate that Cézanne’s Curtain, jug and fruit bowl (c.1893-1894) could fetch around $120 to 130 million today, while the value of his Kettle and fruits painting (c.1888-1890) is probably still around $60 million (its sale price in May 2019).
Picasso still more expensive, but Seurat’s values look flat
Woman seated in a garden (1938) is one of Picasso’s best paintings not yet owned by a museum and it could well be worth over $200 million today. By way of comparison, a painting of equal importance, Women of Algiers (Version ‘O’) (1955) was acquired for $32 million in November 1997 and resold for $179 million in 2015.
Nude in a Black Armchair (1932) purchased in 1999 has a twin work on the market: same title, same year of creation, same dimensions, same subject (one could be mistaken for thinking they were the same painting). However, in May 2010, the price of this twin work reached $106.5 million. It therefore seems reasonable to estimate the current value of each of the two works at around $120 – $150 million.
On the other hand, the value of Georges Seurat’s Paysage, Île de la Grande Jatte (1884) has probably not changed much in 22 years. The work still holds the artist’s auction record, but unlike Paul Cézanne’s still lifes, which have doubled in value, recent Seurat results suggest the value of this painting hasn’t evolved that much.
In May 2018, La rade de Grandcamp (1885), a canvas of the same dimensions as Paysage, Île de la Grande Jatte (1984) and of the same quality, reached $34 million at Christie’s in New York. This result suggests that collector demand for Seurat’s works has remained roughly constant over the past 22 years.
In conclusion, the combined purchase value of the five top results of 1999 was $219.8 million, and, according to the analysis conducted by Artprice’s Artpricing service, the current low estimate for the value of this group of works is around $530 million.
1. Renneboog L. & Spaenjers C. (2009). Buying Beauty: On Prices and Returns in the Art Market. Discussion Paper 2009-004, Tilburg University, Tilburg Law and Economic Center.
Copyright 1987-2021 thierry Ehrmann www.artprice.com – www.artmarket.com
Artpricing, price estimate reports by Artprice: Fill out the form online and receive an estimate report produced by our specialists within 3 days: https://www.artprice.com/estimate
Try our services (free demo): https://www.artprice.com/demo
Subscribe to our services: https://www.artprice.com/subscription
Artmarket.com publishes Artprice 2020 Art Market Report highlighting a veritable paradigm shift: the pandemic imposed an unprecedented digitization of the market… that saved auction turnovers.
Our 23rd Annual Art Market Report offers a global analysis of public sales of Fine Art – painting, sculpture, drawing, photographs, prints, installations – between 1 January and 31 December 2020.
What was, at one point, anticipated as a ‘blank year’ for the Art Market, turned out to be much more positive than expected. The cancellation of fairs, exhibitions and all sales in March 2020 prompted fears of a complete shutdown of the art industry. But unlike museums, which have suffered the full impact of covid-related restrictions, the auction houses quickly found ways to preserve the core of their activities thanks to the dematerialization via digital technology: versus 2019, they maintained 79% of their turnover and sold a volume of lots equivalent to 91% of the previous year’s total.
Artprice’s Art Market Confidence Index in 2020 * AMCI: Art Market Confidence Index
Our 2020 Art Market Report is available free of charge, in full, and in three languages, both online and as a PDF file:
- French: https://fr.artprice.com/artprice-reports/le-marche-de-lart-en-2020
- English: https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-art-market-in-2020
- Mandarin: https://zh.artprice.com/artprice-reports/zh-the-art-market-in-2020
thierry Ehrmann, President and Founder of Artmarket.com and its Artprice department, is pleased to announce the free publication of the 23rd Annual Art Market Report (2020):
“The pandemic which took the world by surprise has forced Art Market professionals to accelerate a digitization process that they had been procrastinating for too long. Twelve months ago, this industry still showed a certain resistance to anything related to digital culture, which resulted in a reluctance to implement effective IT tools. In contrast to this delay, which has left much of the art sector almost thirty years behind the rest of the economy, Artprice has never stopped innovating and preparing the ground for the inevitable future.
So it is with much enthusiasm – despite the situation – that our group has supported all the key actors of the Art Market to take on a historic challenge… to repair in just a few months (sometimes even just a few weeks) three decades of obstinacy”.
Art Market 2.0
The Art Market has adopted a new economic model and reached a new equilibrium that the most optimistic projections were not expecting to see before 2025. It is now much better equipped to work with contemporary ways of living and collecting, i.e. those of the 21st century.
With this 23rd Annual Report, Artprice and its editorial partner Artron are proud to provide a global analysis of this paradigm through a focus on the following questions:
- How has the pandemic impacted the art market?
- How has digital technology affected the market and what will tomorrow’s market look like?
- Why has China’s market resisted so well?
- How have collectors reacted?
- What types of works are most in-demand?
- Which artists have reached records despite the crisis?
- How have social-cultural upheavals – from #MeToo to Black Lives Matter – impacted the Art Market?
The report also contains Artprice’s famous Top-500 ranking of the world’s most sought-after artists and a month-by-month breakdown of the highlights of the art market in 2020 as it struggled to meet the unprecedented challenges prompted by the health crisis.
China in pole position
The report underscores the place China now holds on the global Art Market: that of the most serious competitor to the United States. Although the Chinese art market has its own codes, it is more interesting for that reason and it makes for a particularly substantial and fascinating editorial partnership between Artprice and Artron.
Top 10 countries by Fine Art auction turnover (change vs 2019)
1. China (Artron): $4,163,871,200 (+2%)
2. United States: $2,804,272,300 (-39%)
3. United Kingdom: $1,552,937,500 (-30%)
4. France: $578,347,600 (-31%)
5. Germany: $298,834,000 (+11%)
6. Italy: $142,404,000 (-32%)
7. Switzerland: $110,967,500 (+5%)
8. Japan: $95,366,400 (-14%)
9. Austria: $91,117,515 (-8%)
10. Poland: $89,672,059 (+1%)
Geographical breakdown of Fine Art auction turnover in 2020
Looking at our other key market indicators, the Artprice100© benchmark index has increased by +405% since 1 January 2000. In 2020, this blue-chip artists index posted an increase of +1.8%.
Contemporary Art, both in the West and in Asia, is still the locomotive of the Art Market, despite the pandemic context.
In sum, despite a global tragedy that is unique in social and modern economic history, the Art Market has rebounded via digital technology, which it has massively adopted within a record time and which has allowed the market’s turnover contraction to be limited to just -21%, which in itself – given the circumstances – is a superb performance.
Images:
[https://imgpublic.artprice.com/img/wp/sites/11/2021/03/1-EN-AMCI-Art-Market-Confidence-Index.png]
[https://imgpublic.artprice.com/img/wp/sites/11/2021/03/2-EN-FINEART2020.png]
Copyright 1987-2021 thierry Ehrmann www.artprice.com – www.artmarket.com
- Don’t hesitate to contact our Econometrics Department for your requirements regarding statistics and personalized studies: econometrics@artprice.com
- Try our services (free demo): https://www.artprice.com/demo
- Subscribe to our services: https://www.artprice.com/subscription
Artprice: New York posts a 41% drop in auction revenue in 2020, but confidence has returned in January 2021
In 2020, the world’s leading Fine Art marketplace was at the epicentre of damage caused by the covid pandemic, and the city’s carefully structured auction agenda was completely upset. After the revenue shortfall resulting from the cancelled May sales, the major auction houses managed to switch over to online sales, but the high-end market struggled to catch up throughout the second part of the year.
Monthly Fine Art auction turnover in New York (2019 vs 2020)
thierry Ehrmann, President and Founder of Artmarket.com and its Artprice department: “The boom in 100% online sales has somewhat undermined the logic of maintaining auction rooms and offices in the centres of expensive cities like New York. Manhattan’s power of attraction remains strong and certainly contributes to the success of the prestige sales, as we saw in 2020. But what about the rest of the Art Market? Will it be able to afford city-centre venues?”.
-98% in May
In May 2019, the Big Apple hammered $2.2 billion at Fine Art auctions, thanks notably to eight works selling above the $50 million threshold between 13 and 16 May: Monet ($110 million), Koons ($91 million), Rauschenberg ($88 million), Cézanne ($59 million), Picasso ($55 million), Warhol ($53 million), Bacon ($50 million), Rothko ($50 million). The diversity of these masterpieces, created between the end of the 19th century and the Post-War period, illustrates the attractiveness of New York as a Fine Art marketplace.
In May 2020, however, auctions (functioning online only) totaled just $39 million in Manhattan, i.e. just 2% of the total for the previous May. According to Artprice data, this total was generated by 1,400 Fine Art lots which sold for an average price of $28,000.
All summer to relaunch
It wasn’t until the very end of June 2020 that the high-end market finally appeared to unblock. The New York market immediately recorded the only result of the year above $50 million in the West, with Francis Bacon’s Inspired by the Oresteia of Aeschylus (1981).
Compared with the year-earlier period, the first semester of 2020 New York art sales ended down -54%. This significant shortfall was partially offset when the major houses decided to hold a number of prestige sessions in October, but it was made by moving forward part of the prestigious November sales.
Confidence returning
Fortunately the outlook is positive: confidence has gradually returned to the art market at the international level. Artprice’s AMCI (Art Market Confidence Index) rose throughout November and December. So much so that by the start of 2021, two thirds of Art Market professionals declared a ‘strong intention’ to acquire new works.
There can be no doubt that the Botticelli masterpiece that will be offered by Sotheby’s on 28 January 2021 in New York has captured the attention of major art buyers and enthusiasts all over the planet.
Copyright 1987-2021 thierry Ehrmann www.artprice.com – www.artmarket.com
- Don’t hesitate to contact our Econometrics Department for your requirements regarding statistics and personalized studies: econometrics@artprice.com
- Try our services (free demo): https://www.artprice.com/demo
- Subscribe to our services: https://www.artprice.com/subscription
Artprice traces the Art Market’s recent history via Sotheby’s
Between its second IPO in 1988 and its delisting in October 2019, the prestigious American auction house often reoriented its global strategy and made numerous operational adjustments involving cost management, offering more guarantees, structural reorganizations, new managerial team, etc. But Sotheby’s has arguably made the biggest change in its history this year, by completely dematerializing its catalogs and asserting itself as the leading platform for online Fine Art auctions.
“The history of Sotheby’s over the past thirty years is a marvelous illustration of the recent history of the Art Market » says Thierry Ehrmann, President and Founder of Artmarket.com and of its Artprice department. Artprice traces this history through the three main periods preceding Sotheby’s acquisition by Patrick Drahi and its digital transformation in 2020.
Evolution of Sotheby’s Fine Art auctions (Jan. 1990 – Nov. 2020)
Artprice Global Index vs. Sotheby’s (BID) share price – Base 100 in January 2000*
1988 – 2000: two successive bubbles
At the end of the 1980s globalization took Art prices to new heights. The $78 million hammered in 1990 for Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s Au Moulin de la Galette (1876) set a historic record at Sotheby’s which lasted 14 years. But the financial disequilibrium resulting from the arrival of Japanese collectors supported by their fast growing economy led to a price crisis often referred to as the “Impressionist bubble”.
After a couple of difficult years in 1991-1992 (that dealers and galleries still remember), the Art Market rapidly stabilized. Sotheby’s intensified its operations taking advantage of technological innovations linked to the development of Internet. In 1999, Sotheby’s recorded 27,550 Fine Art transactions, the highest annual number in its history. But the “Internet bubble” ended with a stock market meltdown.
2001 – 2008: up to the last moment…
For three years, from 2001 to 2003, Sotheby’s gradually reduced the intensity of its operations. This allowed the firm to return to a more solid base which underpinned the following four years (2004-2007) and a quadrupling of its Fine Art auction turnover (3.8x). The Art Market was entering a new era and Sotheby’s wanted to be at the helm. On 5 May 2004, an artwork crossed the symbolic $100 million threshold for the first time when Sotheby’s sold Picasso’s Le Garçon à la Pipe Pablo (1905) for $104.6 million in New York.
In 2007 Sotheby’s posted a 50% increase in its turnover and its growth was steaming ahead as 2008 unfolded. However, the collapse of Lehmann Brothers on 15 September heralded the start of a major financial crisis. Ironically, on the same day, Sotheby’s went ahead with its famous Damien Hirst sale Beautiful Inside My Head Forever in London generating $73 million.
2009 – 2019: major restructuring
Although the 2009 art market was impacted by the financial crisis (-60%), Sotheby’s Fine Art turnover remained higher than its pre-2004 figures. However, it clearly decided to reduce its volume to a relatively stable 11,000 to 15,000 lots sold per year. This strategy quickly paid off and Sotheby’s recorded the best two years in its history in 2013 and 2014, with each year boasting a result above the $100 million threshold.
Between 2016 and 2019, Sotheby’s started to seek a new equilibrium, notably via the development of online sales. In 2017, the company attempted to boost its online sales channel by waiving buyer fees… only to reintroduce them the following year. Works by Basquiat, Modigliani and Monet – which marked these four years – were all sold in traditional auction rooms.
This is no longer the case in 2020: on 29 June Sotheby’s managed to sell its star lot, Francis Bacon’s triptych Inspired by the Oresteia of Aeschylus (1981), for $88.55 million (incl. fees) during a online sale broadcast on Internet. Sotheby’s clearly sees the future of Fine Art auctions in this new format…
*Don’t hesitate to contact our Econometrics Department for your requirements regarding statistics and personalized studies: econometrics@artprice.com
Images:
[https://imgpublic.artprice.com/img/wp/sites/11/2020/11/fine-art-sothebys.png]
[https://imgpublic.artprice.com/img/wp/sites/11/2020/11/artprice-global-index-vs-sothebys-bid.png]
Copyright 1987-2020 thierry Ehrmann www.artprice.com – www.artmarket.com
Try our services (free demo): https://www.artprice.com/demo
Subscribe to our services: https://www.artprice.com/subscription
About Artmarket:
Artprice: Sotheby’s has its largest lead over Christie’s in 15 years
The world’s two leading auction houses have historically moved neck and neck, but online sales have allowed Sotheby’s to gain a substantial advance over its rival. For the first 11 months of 2020, Sotheby’s, now headed by Patrick Drahi, has a turnover lead of +40%. Such a wide gap hasn’t been seen since 2004.
Global turnover from fine art – Sotheby’s vs. Christie’s
[1 January 2000 – 30 November 2020]
“The global supremacy of Sotheby’s and Christie’s on the international art market should not make us forget that the two houses only handle 6% of the fine art lots offered at auction” recalls thierry Ehrmann, President and Founder of Artmarket.com and its Artprice department. “The two houses have however acquired a virtual monopoly on results above $20 million in the West. Their rivalry is historic and has been reflected in the closely correlated development of their respective revenues over the past 30 years ”.
A correlation that raised eyebrows…
The year 2000 was marked by the end of an ‘agreement’ between the two companies, accused by their customers of having engaged in “unfair commercial practices” by illicitly harmonising their buyers’ fees. They both agreed to pay $256 million each to avoid a damaging trial and Sotheby’s separated from its CEO at the time, Alfred Taubman.
Despite this ‘agreement not to agree’, the operating incomes of the two companies continued to progress along very similar curves – although completely independently due to the ‘warning’ in 2000 – for another three years.
Sotheby’s turnover rose 56% in 2004
Sotheby’s 2004 turnover was not only boosted by fetching the very first fine art result above the $100 million threshold (for Pablo Picasso’s Garçon à la pipe (1905)), but also by hammering 9 of the 10 best fine art results of the year. This resulted in a global turnover figure 1.5 times higher than Christie’s, despite a slightly lower number of sales.
- Sotheby’s in 2004: $1.86 billion with 19,950 fine art lots sold in 11 countries
- Christie’s in 2004: $ 1.19 billion with 21,570 fine art lots sold in 9 countries
Christie’s regained the lead for six years…
Between 2013 and 2018 François Pinault’s firm managed to beat Sotheby’s annual total for six consecutive years. Sotheby’s reacted with a series of strategic shifts including stepping up its price guarantee policy and dropping buyer fees on online sales. However, the NYSE-listed company seemed to be gradually falling behind.
Then, as rumours circulated about a possible takeover by the Chinese insurer Taikang (its largest shareholder and owner of Poly Auction), Sotheby’s was acquired by Patrick Drahi, a Franco-Israeli telecoms tycoon. The Covid-19 pandemic was bad news for business for everyone, but Sotheby’s was the quickest to react by intensifying its Online Only sales and by setting up exceptional closed-door sessions.
The editorial in Le Monde of Friday 4 December 2020 summed it up perfectly: “Like a time-machine, the health crisis seems resembles a medieval phenomenon, but in many respects it has projected us into the future. Expert predictions about the development of a ‘dematerialized society’ […] often gave 2025 as their horizon, but a lot of these predictions have come to pass in less than a year”.
Image: [https://imgpublic.artprice.com/img/wp/sites/11/2020/12/Sothebys-vs-Christies.png]
Copyright 1987-2020 thierry Ehrmann www.artprice.com – www.artmarket.com
- Don’t hesitate to contact our Econometrics Department for your requirements regarding statistics and personalized studies: econometrics@artprice.com
- Try our services (free demo): https://www.artprice.com/demo
- Subscribe to our services: https://www.artprice.com/subscription
Artprice by Art Market: 10 works that should ignite bidding at New York’s prestige sales, 11 – 20 November 2019
Artprice by Art Market: 10 works that should ignite bidding at New York’s prestige sales, 11 – 20 November 2019
Works sold over $10 million at auction in New York (2000 – October 2019)
[https://imgpublic.artprice.com/img/wp/sites/11/2019/11/new-york-usd-10-million.png]
For thierry Ehrmann, founder/CEO of Artmarket.com, “This year’s best auction performances have relied less on the Art Market’s top four ultra-prestigious signatures (Monet, Picasso, Warhol and Basquiat) and more on artists who are gaining momentum. The major auction houses are today working on bringing new artists into the very closed circle of ‘$10 million-plus’ artists”.
Rather than waiting for the arrival of a single exceptional work – like the Salvator Mundi or the Women of Algiers – auction houses are concentrating on generating more results above the $10 million threshold. And, as we have seen, when several major collectors are chasing the same piece, prices can fly. This was the case for Past Times (1997) by African-American artist Kerry James Marshall in May 2018, and for La Terrasse (1912) by Pierre Bonnard earlier this year.
Artprice has selected the ten works most likely to elicit strong bidding in New York next week:
Ed Rusha – Hurting the Word Radio #2 (1964): $30 – 40 million
This painting could well exceed the $30.4 million hammered in November 2014 for Smash (1963) and crown an already exceptional year for Ed Ruscha on the secondary market. The first version of Hurting the Word Radio is in Houston’s prestigious Menil Collection.
Gustave Caillebotte – Richard Gallo et son chien Dick (1884): $18 – 25 million
Occasionally, 19th century art – frequently disregarded or overlooked – produces excellent surprises. Somewhat curiously, Gustave Caillebotte is among the artists currently in vogue. His painting at Sotheby’s next week could do even better than the $22 million hammered in February 2019 for his Chemin montant (1881), which was worth $6.7 million in 2003.
Joan Mitchell – Plowed field (1971): $12 – 18 million
This painting – over 5 metres long – was auctioned in November 2003 at Christie’s in New York where it fetched $657,100. Sixteen years later, it could be resold for almost 20 times that amount.
Brice Marden – Number Two (1983/84): $10 – 15 million
After the new auction record for Carl André’s Copper-Steel Alloy Square at $3 million on 4 October 2019 in London, Minimalism is back with a major Brice Marden canvas. Since it was purchased at the Pace Gallery 34 years ago, the work has never been offered for sale. Its sister work, Number One (1983/84), is part of the Whitney Museum’s collection.
Francis Bacon – Pope (c. 1958): $6 – 8 million
This painting – from perhaps the Irish painter’s most iconic series – is being sold by the Brooklyn Museum, which has kept it for nearly forty years. Its sale will take place during the magnificent retrospective “Bacon en toutes lettres” at the Centre Pompidou in Paris (open until 20 January 2020).
Jean-Michel Basquiat – Brown Eggs (1981): $2.5 – 3.5 million
The major absentee on the high-end market so far this year, Basquiat is still only in 11th place in Artprice’s global ranking of artists by auction turnover… This work on paper, which already fetched $254,000 in 2004, then $1.86 million in 2015, will indicate whether the ‘Basquiat frenzy’ has calmed or is continuing to spread. But it won’t be the only indication since his painting The Ring (1981), which sold for $7.6 million in 2012, is also being offered… with an estimate of $12 – 15 million.
Alma Woodsey Thomas – A Fantastic Sunset (1970): $2.2 – 2.8 million
This Afro-American artist, who died in 1978, could finally earn the recognition she deserves on the Art Market. Her research on colour, similar to that of Frank Stella and Morris Louis, has never had the same auction success enjoyed by those two stars of Abstract Expressionism… who have both renewed their personal auction records very recently.
Akseli Gallen-Kallela – Palokärki (1892/94): $1.8 – 2.5 million
Her canvas View over Lake at Sunset (c.1905) exceeded all expectations on 9 July 2019 at Sotheby’s in London. Estimated between $125,000 and $190,000, it was finally purchased for $886,000. This record explains Sotheby’s very bold estimate for Palokärki.
Charles Wilbert White – Banner for Willie J (1976): $1 – 1.5 million
Christie’s has finally got its hands on an exceptional painting by this African-American artist who died in 1979. White’s work has recently enjoyed strong auction demand including for two charcoal drawings that fetched over $400,000 each. His painting Banner for Willie J has all the qualities to set a much more substantial record.
Julie Curtiss – Pas de Trois (2018): $100,000 – 150,000
Curtiss is the new darling of the Anton Kern Gallery, which presented her work for the first time in April 2019 in New York. Since that solo show, five of her paintings have already been auctioned for a total of $453,000. And three others have been announced for sale in November.
Copyright 1987-2019 thierry Ehrmann http://www.artprice.com – http://www.artmarket.com
About Artmarket:
Artmarket.com is listed on Eurolist by Euronext Paris, SRD long only and Euroclear: 7478 – Bloomberg: PRC – Reuters: ARTF.
Discover Artmarket and its Artprice department on video: https://en.artprice.com/video
Artmarket and its Artprice department was founded in 1997 by its CEO, thierry Ehrmann. Artmarket and its Artprice department is controlled by Groupe Serveur, created in 1987.
See certified biography in Who’s who ©:
https://imgpublic.artprice.com/img/wp/sites/11/2019/10/biographie_oct2019_WhosWho_thierryEhrmann.pdf
Artmarket is a global player in the Art Market with, among other structures, its Artprice department, world leader in the accumulation, management and exploitation of historical and current art market information in databanks containing over 30 million indices and auction results, covering more than 700,000 artists.
Artprice Images® allows unlimited access to the largest Art Market image bank in the world: no less than 180 million digital images of photographs or engraved reproductions of artworks from 1700 to the present day, commented by our art historians.
Artmarket with its Artprice department accumulates data on a permanent basis from 6300 Auction Houses and produces key Art Market information for the main press and media agencies (7,200 publications). Its 4.5 million ‘members log in’ users have access to ads posted by other members, a network that today represents the leading Global Standardized Marketplace® to buy and sell artworks at a fixed or bid price (auctions regulated by paragraphs 2 and 3 of Article L 321.3 of France’s Commercial Code).
Artmarket with its Artprice department, has been awarded the State label “Innovative Company” by the Public Investment Bank (BPI) (for the second time in November 2018 for a new period of 3 years) which is supporting the company in its project to consolidate its position as a global player in the market art.
Artprice by Artmarket’s 2018 Global Art Market Report published in March 2019: https://fr.artprice.com/artprice-reports/le-marche-de-lart-en-2018
Index of press releases posted by Artmarket with its Artprice department:
http://serveur.serveur.com/press_release/pressreleasefr.htm
Follow all the Art Market news in real time with Artmarket and its Artprice department on Facebook and Twitter:
https: // www .facebook.com / artpricedotcom (4.5 million followers)
https://twitter.com/artmarketdotcom
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom
Discover the alchemy and universe of Artmarket and its artprice department http: //web.artprice.com/video headquartered at the famous Organe Contemporary Art Museum “The Abode of Chaos” (dixit The New York Times): https://issuu.com/demeureduchaos/docs/demeureduchaos-abodeofchaos-opus-ix-1999-2013
L’Obs – The Museum of the Future: https://youtu.be/29LXBPJrs-o
https://www.facebook.com/la.demeure.du.chaos.theabodeofchaos999
(4 million followers)
https://www.facebook.com/the.demeure.du.chaos.theabodeofchaos999
Contact Artmarket.com and its Artprice department
Contact: ir@artmarket.com
Artprice by Art Market: Cimabue… another French success, along with the Lalanne sale last week and Paris Photo 2019 next week.
A small painting depicting The Mocking of Christ, and attributed by Eric Turquin’s team of experts to Cimabue, sold at Senlis Auction House near Paris for no less than $26.8 million on 27 October 2019. This is the best Fine Art auction result hammered in France since October 2017 when Alberto Giacometti’s sculpture Grande femme II (1960) fetched $29.5 million.
According to thierry Ehrmann, Founder/CEO of ArtMarket.com, “this is the third time in just two weeks that France has hit Art Market headlines. After a sensational record at $22.3 million for Nicolas de Staël’s painting at Christie’s Paris during the Fiac, and then the huge success of the ‘Univers Lalanne’ sale at Sotheby’s, it’s a small panel attributed to one of the fathers of the Italian Renaissance and modestly estimated at $4.4 – 6.6 million that generated a sensational result in Senlis (not far from Paris) on Sunday. France has proved it is not only capable of attracting exceptional pieces to its museums, it is also capable of attracting exceptional works to its auction rooms and of hammering exceptional results. Moreover, with Paris Photo next week, France will once again prove its pioneering role in the global Art Market.”
Auction turnover on works by Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne (2000-2019*)
The ‘alpha’ of the Italian Renaissance
In Art History, Cenni di Pepo, known as Cimabue, is recognised as the key figure in the start of the Italian Renaissance, during which Western Art finally emancipated itself from Byzantine art. While he still used an egg tempera technique, his work introduced fundamental innovations regarding the representation of space, people and light, which were explored and developed by Italian painting for several centuries thereafter. Cimabue taught Duccio and a shepherd named Giotto, both of whom went on to play major roles in the history of the Sienese and Florentine schools.
The only other Cimabue work to be auctioned in the last forty years, Madonna and Child, belonged to the same polyptych as The Mocking of Christ. Offered for sale by Sotheby’s in July 2000, the work was finally acquired by the National Gallery in London. The third known panel from this polyptych, The Flogging of Christ, has been in New York’s Frick Collection since 1950.
Cimabue’s place in Western Art History is fundamental and the rarity of his works justifies the value of this small panel: more than $51,000 per. That’s well below the $150,000 per square centimeter paid for Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi in November 2017, a painting that is expected (but has still not appeared) in the Louvre exhibition commemorating the fifth centenary of the Tuscan genius’s death.
96% of lots sold above estimates at the “Univers Lalanne” sale
The French capital excels at exhibiting works from all periods of Art History, with the same enthusiasm. Thus, while Christie’s and Sotheby’s organised sales dedicated to the first half of the 20th century, and Contemporary art took centre stage at the Grand Palais with the FIAC, the city’s museums have been simultaneously showing:
– Post-War art with Francis Bacon and Hans Hartung at the Pompidou Center and the MAM
– Félix Fénéon’s distinctly Modern art at the Musée de l’Orangerie
– The Italian Renaissance at the Jacquemart-André Museum and at the Louvre
– Charlotte Perriand’s furniture at the Vuitton Foundation
As the French capital entertains a positive attitude to Art & Design, one of the key moments of this month of October 2019 was the sale of the Claude & François-Xavier Lalanne Collection at Sotheby’s. Organized over two days, the session saw almost all of the 274 lots reach beyond their estimates, generating a total of over $100 million.
Among the most impressive results: $55,700 for a set of two Lettres aux colombes drawn and written by Yves Saint Laurent, estimated between $700 – 900!… and the star lot of collection, François-Xavier Lalanne’s Rhinocrétaire, reached $5.4 million against an estimate of $780,000 – 1.1 million.
Paris Photo: from 7 to 11 November 2019
Ahead of the major New York sales, the French capital is once again poised to blaze with Paris Photo, undoubtedly the world’s biggest fair dedicated exclusively to the photography medium. The event brings together the market’s most prestigious players including the Magnum agency, the galleries Xippas, Karsten Greve, Lelong, Nathalie Obadia, Les Filles du Calvaire, and a collaboration between the galleries Gagosian and 1900-2000.
Photography accounts for just 0.9% to 1.2% of global Fine Art auction sales. But, unlike painting or sculpture – which nowadays are seeking new modes of expression – photography is an art form in the making, evolving with the latest technological advances and whose most sought-after artists are alive and active today.
Nevertheless, the Photography segment of the Art Market has contracted somewhat over the last 5 years. In 2014, the segment’s global auction turnover reached $220 million compared with just $135 million last year. But… with 17,000 lots sold in 2018, the market has never been so dense. We can expect to see a return to growth in 2019, with 13,000 photographs already generating more than $100 million so far this year.
*01 Jan. 2000 – 30 Oct. 2019
Copyright 1987-2019 thierry Ehrmann http://www.artprice.com – http://www.artmarket.com
About Artmarket:
Artmarket.com is listed on Eurolist by Euronext Paris, SRD long only and Euroclear: 7478 – Bloomberg: PRC – Reuters: ARTF.
Discover Artmarket and its Artprice department on video: https://en.artprice.com/video
Artmarket and its Artprice department was founded in 1997 by its CEO, thierry Ehrmann. Artmarket and its Artprice department is controlled by Groupe Serveur, created in 1987.
See certified biography in Who’s who ©:
https://imgpublic.artprice.com/img/wp/sites/11/2019/10/biographie_oct2019_WhosWho_thierryEhrmann.pdf
Artmarket is a global player in the Art Market with, among other structures, its Artprice department, world leader in the accumulation, management and exploitation of historical and current art market information in databanks containing over 30 million indices and auction results, covering more than 700,000 artists.
Artprice Images® allows unlimited access to the largest Art Market image bank in the world: no less than 180 million digital images of photographs or engraved reproductions of artworks from 1700 to the present day, commented by our art historians.
Artmarket with its Artprice department accumulates data on a permanent basis from 6300 Auction Houses and produces key Art Market information for the main press and media agencies (7,200 publications). Its 4.5 million ‘members log in’ users have access to ads posted by other members, a network that today represents the leading Global Standardized Marketplace® to buy and sell artworks at a fixed or bid price (auctions regulated by paragraphs 2 and 3 of Article L 321.3 of France’s Commercial Code).
Artmarket with its Artprice department, has been awarded the State label “Innovative Company” by the Public Investment Bank (BPI) (for the second time in November 2018 for a new period of 3 years) which is supporting the company in its project to consolidate its position as a global player in the market art.
Artprice by Artmarket’s 2018 Global Art Market Report published in March 2019: https://fr.artprice.com/artprice-reports/le-marche-de-lart-en-2018
Index of press releases posted by Artmarket with its Artprice department:
http://serveur.serveur.com/press_release/pressreleasefr.htm
Follow all the Art Market news in real time with Artmarket and its Artprice department on Facebook and Twitter:
https: // www .facebook.com / artpricedotcom (4.5 million followers)
https://twitter.com/artmarketdotcom
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom
Discover the alchemy and universe of Artmarket and its artprice department http: //web.artprice.com/video headquartered at the famous Organe Contemporary Art Museum “The Abode of Chaos” (dixit The New York Times): https://issuu.com/demeureduchaos/docs/demeureduchaos-abodeofchaos-opus-ix-1999-2013
L’Obs – The Museum of the Future: https://youtu.be/29LXBPJrs-o
https://www.facebook.com/la.demeure.du.chaos.theabodeofchaos999
(4 million followers)
https://www.facebook.com/the.demeure.du.chaos.theabodeofchaos999
Contact Artmarket.com and its Artprice department
Contact: ir@artmarket.com
Artmarket.com takes first steps on Euronext Paris and announces new partnership in the field of Artificial Intelligence as a global player in the Art Market.
The proprietary metadata accumulated by Artprice, the world leader in Art Market Information since 1999, is now available to Artmarket.com. Having extended its corporate purpose, Artmarket.com announces, among other initiatives, an industrial partnership with Vahumana, Groupe TRSb, a European Leader in Artificial Intelligence.
The aim of Artmarket is to structurally modify the Art Market at a time when Sotheby’s is entering the digital age with Patrick Drahi at the helm and Christie’s is actively preparing its own 4.0 revolution in response.
Thanks to its famous Artprice Econometrics department, Artmarket.com enjoys the benefits of an “Innovative Company” status, a State label awarded by France’s Public Investment Bank (BPI) which is fully intent on supporting this project.
thierry Ehrmann: « Artmarket.com is practically the only listed company on a regulated market (Euronext Paris) whose sole purpose is to generate billions (annually) of proprietary and standardized metadata on a market that has been effectively global for centuries. It also stores and processes in real time – via Artificial Intelligence and Big Data – billions of incoming logs, either free or paid, per year ».
Artmarket’s databanks manage terabytes of information on proprietary-designed processors running algorithms and AI programs that can translate the millions of contacts that Artmarket.com has accumulated via Artprice over 20 years into customers, in strict compliance with the regulations in force in each country.
By the end of 2019, our new partnership with VaHumana will enable Artmarket to model fully-paid custom products and services for the millions of art collectors and professionals who until now have not found responses completely adapted to their highly specific needs via a standard Artprice subscription.
In parallel, Artmarket.com’s AI exploitation of billions of past logs will have the effect of dragging the Art Market out of its lethargy… a lethargy dominated by academic references dating back to the beginning of the last century, become the Art Market’s default references, and which today, as the market switches to all-digital to catch up with the mobile Internet and its 4.5 billion users (in 4G, Wi-Fi / fiber and ultra high speed 5G), appear totally anachronistic.
Artmarket.com will therefore soon be offering a range of paid products and services directly generated by AI and Big Data and which will be offered first and foremost to its 6300 partner Auction Houses via its proprietary Intranet to support them in the digital era. These products and services will be based on a complete redefinition of the Art Market’s segments and ‘clusters’ that is coherent with the reality of the 21st century Art Market, and they will give our clients a very substantial and invaluable competitive advantage.
For all other questions we invite you to read the press release of 9 September 2019 Actusnews
Copyright 1987-2019 thierry Ehrmann www.artprice.com – www.artmarket.com
About Artmarket:
Artmarket.com is listed on Eurolist by Euronext Paris, SRD long only and Euroclear: 7478 – Bloomberg: PRC – Reuters: ARTF.
Discover Artmarket and its Artprice department on video: https://en.artprice.com/video
Artmarket and its Artprice department was founded in 1997 by its CEO, thierry Ehrmann. Artmarket and its Artprice department is controlled by Groupe Serveur, created in 1987.
See certified biography in Who’s who ©:
https://imgpublic.artprice.com/img/wp/sites/11/2019/03/2019-bio-whoswho -Thierry-ehrmann.pdf
Artmarket is a global player in the Art Market with, among other structures, its Artprice department, world leader in the accumulation, management and exploitation of historical and current art market information in databanks containing over 30 million indices and auction results, covering more than 700,000 artists.
Artprice Images® allows unlimited access to the largest Art Market image bank in the world: no less than 180 million digital images of photographs or engraved reproductions of artworks from 1700 to the present day, commented by our art historians.
Artmarket with its Artprice department accumulates data on a permanent basis from 6300 Auction Houses and produces key Art Market information for the main press and media agencies (7,200 publications). Its 4.5 million ‘members log in’ users have access to ads posted by other members, a network that today represents the leading Global Standardized Marketplace® to buy and sell artworks at a fixed or bid price (auctions regulated by paragraphs 2 and 3 of Article L 321.3 of France’s Commercial Code).
Artmarket with its Artprice department, has been awarded the State label “Innovative Company” by the Public Investment Bank (BPI) (for the second time in November 2018 for a new period of 3 years) which is supporting the company in its project to consolidate its position as a global player in the market art.
Artprice by Artmarket’s 2018 Global Art Market Report published in March 2019: https://fr.artprice.com/artprice-reports/le-marche-de-lart-en-2018
Index of press releases posted by Artmarket with its Artprice department:
http://serveur.serveur.com/press_release/pressreleasefr.htm
Follow all the Art Market news in real time with Artmarket and its Artprice department on Facebook and Twitter:
https: // www .facebook.com / artpricedotcom (4.5 million followers)
https://twitter.com/artmarketdotcom
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom
Discover the alchemy and universe of Artmarket and its artprice department http: //web.artprice.com/video headquartered at the famous Organe Contemporary Art Museum “The Abode of Chaos” (dixit The New York Times): https://issuu.com/demeureduchaos/docs/demeureduchaos-abodeofchaos-opus-ix-1999-2013
https://www.facebook.com/la.demeure.du.chaos.theabodeofchaos999
(4 million followers)
https://www.facebook.com/the.demeure.du.chaos.theabodeofchaos999
Contact Artmarket.com and its Artprice department
Contact ir@artprice
24/7 Artprice live on Twitter and Facebook with 50 posts per day for exclusive and global art market information
24h/24 Artprice en live sur Twitter et Facebook: 50 posts/jour pour une information exclusive et mondiale sur le marche de l’art
Artprice’s historic EGM validates Artmarket.com in order to embrace the all-digital age as a global player in the Art Market
The historic EGM meeting on 30 September 2019 has fully validated our strategy of changing our name and extending our corporate purpose from Artprice.com to Artmarket.com and all of the relevant statute amendments. All of the shareholders fully understood and voted to approve our strategy. thierry Ehrmann, Founder/CEO of Artprice, along with all his colleagues, wishes to thank them for their confidence and support.
To be called ArtMarket.com on the stock market (the mnemonic code is still PRC) represents a superb intangible asset adding enormous value to the company. Indeed, apart from the intrinsic value of the DNS, the new name will propel our group into the smallest interstices of the tentacular Internet and search engines all over the world.
Difficult to talk about the Art Market without using the term “Art Market”… What could be more unifying? We have become unavoidable? For us the two words represent Internet’s Holy Grail… opening doors in a rational and scientific way to almost all the information on the Art Market.
Calling ourselves ArtMarket.com is the instant equivalent of a major global campaign of communication and promotion costing several tens of millions of euros… and there can be no doubt about its positive impact on the stock market, especially as we expecting a record result this year.
In 2019, Artprice and Cision (PRNewswire) are renewing their framework agreement with Artmarket.com so that we can send our proprietary content in real time to 5 continents in 18 languages ??reaching 2.1 billion individuals (notary registered 2019 data, Maître Pons). This unparalleled alliance between two world leaders in the Art and the Wire markets – after 20 years of collaboration – has effectively created the largest press agency on the Art Market.
As we accelerate towards the all-digital era, Artmarket.com allows Artprice.com to accompany the historical paradigm shift that dematerialization represents in order to become a global player in the Art Market.
We are also very proud to represent “French tech” (with the renewal of our state-sponsored innovative company label [BPI] for another 3 years) in a digital world where the global leaders are mostly Anglo-Saxon.
In June 2019, Artprice economists identified 37 companies worldwide whose corporate purpose was similar to ours and who raised more than $50 million since 2000. 100% of these companies have filed for bankruptcy or have ceased operating due to a lack of revenue. This means that Artmarket.com is now operating in a massive open field with colossal barriers to entry, both in terms of the capital required and the time needed to set up this kind of business.
Patrick Drahi’s recent acquisition of Sotheby’s is a starck reminder that the Art Market is not immune to digitization and dematerialization. Drahi is a Networks and Telecoms man.
Nearly 20 years ago, Artprice was far ahead of its time and it still is. While many doubted the Art Market would ever change and adapt to new technologies, we were convinced it would. Our position as World Leader in Art Market Information is the direct result of this firm conviction.
While some continued secretly recording sales result (thereby perpetuating the Art Market’s opacity and its restriction to a caste of insiders), Artprice’s historians and documentalists digitized and annotated hundreds of millions of historical documents, allocating IDs to every artist and every work. This massively time-consuming investment generated the largest existing databases which we made available to everyone on the Art Market so that artworks could be bought and sold under optimal conditions and people could educate themselves about the art market.
Over two decades, Artprice has seen its standardization accepted by the Art Market and it is now considered a vital and authoritative reference by all players in this market, whatever their size and wherever they are located.
It should be noted that Artprice has acquired a number of highly valuable scientific and historical documents around the world and that these assets will be fully exploited by Artmarket.com thanks to the extension of its corporate purpose and the amendments to its Statutes that have just been approved.
Our headstart has allowed us to win…
Our work, our ideas and our convictions have helped to make the Art Market more understandable and more democratic. The knowledge previously guarded by a small number of insiders is now accessible to all of our clients. Meanwhile, the volume of secondary market transactions has rocketed, massively increasing the Art Market’s liquidity. As we have repeatedly explained in our communications over recent years, it is now an efficient market generating returns comparable to financial markets.
Since 2000, the Art Market’s global secondary market turnover has risen 383% and its return on investment, according to our Artprice100® index, was 16% in the first half of 2019 compared with interest rates close to zero on the money markets.
As we predicted, the Internet has of course exploded exponentially. Whereas Internet consultation used to be only possible from desktop or home computers, now, with the mobile Internet reaching 5.4 billion smartphones in the world, one can access the same services anywhere: from galleries, auction rooms, art dealers, valuers, art fairs, museums, etc. Today 4G, Wi-Fi via optical fiber and now ultra high speed 5G networks make it even easier and faster for Art Market and its customers around the world.
According to our calculations, with our recent strategic developments – including the name change to Artmarket – we are currently at less than 10% of our economic potential with a horizon of 5 years.
In short, the Art Market cannot indefinitely ignore the digital era and the Internet. Compared to many other sectors in the economy, the Art Market is operating with a unique lag of nearly 30 years… and that lag will inevitably translate into Artmarket’s future prosperity.
The future is in Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Augmented and/or Virtual Reality, 8K, and Blockchain…
Artmarket.com has no intention of lagging behind these technologies. An article published in Les Echos (24.09.2019) gives a superb indication of where we are heading: “Artificial Intelligence enters the Museum World” (L’intelligence artificielle entre au Musée).
Artmarket.com’s role as the spearhead of the Art Market’s technological future is 100% legitimate considering that its head offices are located at the heart of the Organe Contemporary Art Museum (which manages the open-to-the-public La Demeure du Chaos (Abode of Chaos dixit the NY Times), ranked the top Contemporary Art Museum in France by Google reviews (notary registered ranking by Maître Pons on 4 September 2019).
During the recent European Heritage Days (weekend of 21 and 22 September 2019), The Organe Contemporary Art Museum (effectively Artprice/Artmarket’s HQ) hosted 18,000 visitors thanks to our in-depth knowledge and use of social networks and new technologies. As a highly popular museum, we regularly experiment, in situ, with proprietary high-tech solutions to help our visitors discover the 9000 m² of our site containing 6,300 works. We have therefore demonstrated our know-how in the Museum Industry field, particularly on 360° vision in Pro2 8K by the global leader Insta360, for whom Artmarket’s technical department has been a ‘beta tester’ and a Google referenced pioneer for many years.
Virtual tours of our headquarters, including via Facebook VR Oculus headsets, whose number we can already count on media such as Google, Facebook, Flickr and Instagram (with our 9 million followers), are increasingly popular around the world (there have been 8,100 media reports about the Abode of Chaos / Organe Contemporary Art Museum). All of this exposure is hugely positive for the growth of Artmarket.com and represents a massive and permanent advertising campaign.
Based on Google and Flickr counting of single virtual visitors in 360° 4K and 8k in the Contemporary Art segment, our head office, the Organe Contemporary Art Museum, is no. 2 in France with 4.5 million visitors behind the Center Georges Pompidou, followed closely by the Louis Vuitton Foundation.
Very soon Artprice Images® – which currently gives subscribers unlimited access to the world’s largest Art Market database of 180 million photographic or etched images of artworks from 1700 to the present day (each commented by our historians) – will be accessible in augmented reality by Artmarket. Sotheby’s Institute of Art, one of our loyal customers, will be the first to test this augmented reality service for its students.
High-tech 3D scanning studios are being set up for our clients, including the 6,300 partner auction houses. The humble 2D photo is destined to disappear making way for the visualisation of works in true AI generated 3D. Thousands of young photographers are already discovering this technology which represents a revolution in their profession.
Henceforward, when it comes to ‘industrial’ photography (including sales catalogues), artificial intelligence is clearly bound to replace the photographer. Anecdotally, the iPhone 11 Pro Max® instantly processes a trillion operations per second (source Apple USA) for each photo with its A13 chip.
Our knowledge and awareness of developments within the Images market has a long history. From 1997 to 2006 the CEO of our direct subsidiary Editing Server® was also President of SAPHIR which is a member of the French Federation of Press Agencies (FFAP). He was a member of the Joint Committee of Press Agencies Publications (CPPAP) and of the Professional Commission of Independent Photographers of the Association for the Management of the Social Security of Authors (AGESSA).
Our digital culture dates back to 1987 with Groupe Server, a pioneer of the Internet in Europe (see TIME Magazine 2001). We therefore have a massive technological lead that will inevitably accompany the Art Market (throughout the world) over the coming years. Our role as a global player in the Art Market is a logical result of our unique capability to format metadata flows with our proprietary algorithms so that they become increasingly intelligent, and to adapt to technological know-how in perpetual evolution… an evolution that has been a fatal obstacle for our competitors who were unaware of the need (or unable) to change quickly.
This natural and ruthless selection, over several decades, has today posited Artmarket.com as the global player in the Art Market, and its brand Artprice, as the world leader in Art Market information.
This position of global player in the Art Market has been built with more than 20 years of hard work and passion. This historic EGM has validated and endorsed the tremendous achievements of the Group and it has allowed us to change its economic scope completely.
For all other questions we invite you to read the press release of 9 September 2019 Actusnews
Copyright ©1987-2019 thierry Ehrmann – www.artprice.com – www.artmarket.com
About Artprice:
Artprice is listed on the Eurolist by Euronext Paris, SRD long only and Euroclear: 7478 – Bloomberg: PRC – Reuters: ARTF.
Founded by thierry Ehrmann (see Who’s who certified Biography ) (c) https://imgpublic.artprice.com/img/wp/sites/11/2019/03/2019-bio-whoswho-thierry-ehrmann.pdf).
Dicover Artprice in video: https://www.artprice.com/video
Artprice is the global leader in art price and art index databanks. It has over 30 million indices and auction results covering more than 700,000 artists. Artprice Images® gives unlimited access to the largest Art Market resource in the world: a library of 126 million images or prints of artworks from the year 1700 to the present day, along with comments by Artprice’s art historians.
Artprice permanently enriches its databanks with information from 6,300 auctioneers and it publishes a constant flow of art market trends for the world’s principal news agencies and approximately 7,200 international press publications.
For its 4,500,000 members, Artprice gives access to the world’s leading Standardised Marketplace for buying and selling art. Artprice is preparing its blockchain for the Art Market. It is BPI-labelled (scientific national French label) Artprice’s Global Art Market Annual Report for 2018 published last March 2019: https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-art-market-in-2018
Artprice is associated with Artron Group the Chinese leader in the Art Market, its solid institutional partner.
Artprice’s Contemporary Art Market Annual Report for 2018 – free access at:
https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-contemporary-art-market-report-2018
Artprice’s press releases:
http://serveur.serveur.com/Press_Release/pressreleaseen.htm
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom
Artmarket News:
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom & https://twitter.com/artmarketdotcom
https://www.facebook.com/artpricedotcom 4,4 million subscribers
http://artmarketinsight.wordpress.com/
Discover the Alchemy and the universe of Artprice http://web.artprice.com/video, which headquarters are the famous Museum of Contemporary Art, the Abode of Chaos: https://issuu.com/demeureduchaos/docs/demeureduchaos-abodeofchaos-opus-ix-1999-2013
The Contemporary Art Museum The Abode of Chaos
https://www.facebook.com/la.demeure.du.chaos.theabodeofchaos999 3.9 million subscribers
Contact: ir@artprice.com
Artprice (New York): thierry Ehrmann: « Patrick Drahi’s acquisition of Sotheby’s confirms the Art Market’s entry into the digital era of the 21st century ».
(New York, NY) thierry Ehrmann: “Patrick Drahi’s acquisition of Sotheby’s confirms the Art Market’s entry into the digital era of the 21st century. Artprice has always argued that the global Art Market – weighing roughly 90 billion dollars – was several decades behind in terms of digital culture and Internet”.
Fine Art auction turnover for the world two major auction houses: Christie’s and Sotheby’s
Fine Art auction turnover for the world two major auction houses: Christie’s and Sotheby’s
[https://imgpublic.artprice.com/img/wp/sites/11/2019/06/artprice-sothebys-vs-christies.png]
“So it’s great news for the Art Market and Artprice to see Sotheby’s – the only listed auction operator – being acquired bought by Patrick Drahi, a 55-year-old global entrepreneur with a portfolio of telecommunications, media and digital companies. The offer price, which represents a premium of 61% to Sotheby’s closing price on June 14, 2019, and a 56% premium to the company’s 30 trading-day volume weighted average share price, reflects Patrick Drahi’s genuine confidence in Sotheby’s capacity for exponential development via a digital mutation”.
Artprice: “Since 2000, the Art Market has enjoyed a period of distinctly virtuous growth, becoming an efficient market with a return on investment of almost 7% per year and a volume growth of 450%. For much of this period, the backdrop to this growth has been a savings environment of zero or even negative interest rates in the eurozone. Meanwhile, the market itself has evolved from roughly 500,000 art collectors after WWII to nearly 90 million Art Consumers today, the vast majority of whom are completely at ease with new technologies”.
thierry Ehrmann: “The soft power of the world’ major powers is a powerful geopolitical driver for the growth and development of the Museum Industry®. Artprice was one of the first players to appreciate and conceptualize the global importance of this industry. As we analysed in an earlier study, more museums opened between 1 January 2000 and 31 December 2014 than during the previous two centuries. Every year approximately 700 new museums with international standing – each holding a minimum of 4,500 artworks – open their doors on five continents, representing one of the primary sustainable drivers of the global Art Market”.
For 21 years, Artprice – the global leader in Art Market information and a dedicated digital pioneer – has contributed to the Art Market’s evolution into the digital era. Its databanks are today an absolute worldwide reference in terms of exhaustivity, indices and Art Market statistics. Remember that Artprice, via external growth and R&D, was the first global player to produce algorithm indices, using Big Data and Artificial Intelligence based on the observation of billions of connections to our databanks in strict compliance with existing data protection laws around the world.
In his statement, the position of Sotheby’s CEO, Tad Smith, is perfectly lucid: he openly welcomes Patrick Drahi into the Sotheby’s family: “Known for his commitment to innovation and ingenuity. He has a long-term view with a proven track record in the field of telecommunications, media and digital companies and I strongly believe that the company will be in excellent hands for decades to come with Patrick as our owner.”
Likewise, Domenico De Sole, chairman of the Sotheby’s board of directors, welcomes the move: “Following a comprehensive review, the Board enthusiastically supports Mr. Drahi’s offer, which delivers a significant premium to market for our shareholders”.
Several key facts and figures concerning Sotheby’s and the Fine Art auction market:
Sotheby’s is the world’s number two Fine Art auction operator with a total turnover of $3,93 billion in 2018, behind Christie’s with $5 billion. Together, the two Anglo-Saxon giants account for over half of the planet’s Fine Art auction turnover: Christie’s for 32.3% and Sotheby’s for 25.4%. Their respective strengths are based on global coverage of the Art Market.
Sotheby’s 2018 Fine Art auction turnover by location
© Artprice.com
New York: $2 billion (51%)
London: $1.1 billion (28%)
Hong Kong: $554 million (14%)
Paris: $188 million (5%)
Milan: $32 million (0.8%)
Melbourne: $24 million (0.6%)
Mumbai: $8 million (0.2%)
Zurich: $7 million (0.2%)
Despite 275 years of existence, Sotheby’s has experienced a number of relatively close strategy changes:
– 2015: Tad Smith became CEO and the firm terminated sales in mainland China (Beijing) and the Middle East (Doha).
– 2016: 13.5% of Sotheby’s was acquired by the Chinese insurance company Taikang Life Insurance, whose CEO is the founder of the Chinese auction operator, China Guardian.
– 2017: the firm eliminated buyers’ fees from online sales.
– 2018: buyers’ fees were re-established for online sales
Sales growth at both Christie’s and Sotheby’s has been around 400% since 2000, comparable to the 450% growth of the global Art Market over the same period.
After the announcement of Sotheby’s H1 2018 results, Sotheby’s share price dropped 10%. Despite rising sales, the company’s profits fell by 23%, a contraction that Sotheby’s blamed on its own guarantee strategy. Apparently the sale of Modigliani’s Nu Couché (sur le côté gauche) (1917-18) for $157 million – an absolute record for Sotheby’s – was not the best financial transaction of the year for the world’s second largest auction operator.
Artprice: “The world’s top two auction houses, with no rivals to date, are now both owned by French investors and collectors: François Pinault acquired Christie’s in 1998 and now Patrick Drahi effectively owns Sotheby’s since 17 June 2019”.
Copyright ©2019 thierry Ehrmann – www.artprice.com
About Artprice:
Artprice is listed on the Eurolist by Euronext Paris, SRD long only and Euroclear: 7478 – Bloomberg: PRC – Reuters: ARTF.
Founded by thierry Ehrmann (see Who’s who certified Biography ) (c) https://imgpublic.artprice.com/img/wp/sites/11/2019/03/2019-bio-whoswho-thierry-ehrmann.pdf).
Dicover Artprice in video: https://www.artprice.com/video
Artprice is the global leader in art price and art index databanks. It has over 30 million indices and auction results covering more than 700,000 artists. Artprice Images® gives unlimited access to the largest Art Market resource in the world: a library of 126 million images or prints of artworks from the year 1700 to the present day, along with comments by Artprice’s art historians.
Artprice permanently enriches its databanks with information from 6,300 auctioneers and it publishes a constant flow of art market trends for the world’s principal news agencies and approximately 7,200 international press publications.
For its 4,500,000 members, Artprice gives access to the world’s leading Standardised Marketplace for buying and selling art. Artprice is preparing its blockchain for the Art Market. It is BPI-labelled (scientific national French label) Artprice’s Global Art Market Annual Report for 2018 published last March 2019: https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-art-market-in-2018
Artprice is associated with Artron Group the Chinese leader in the Art Market, its solid institutional partner.
About the Artron Group:
“Artron Art Group (Artron), a comprehensive cultural industrial group founded in 1993 by Wan jie, is committed to inheriting, enhancing and spreading art value. Based on abundant art data, Artron provides art industry and art fans with professional service and experience of quality products by integrated application of IT, advanced digital science and innovative crafts and materials.
Having produced more than 60,000 books and auction catalogues, Artron is the world’s largest art book printer with a total print volume of 300 million a year. It has more than 3 million professional members in the arts sector and an average of 15 million daily visits, making it the world’s leading art website.”
Artron’s Web: www.Artron.net
Artprice’s Contemporary Art Market Annual Report for 2018 – free access at:
https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-contemporary-art-market-report-2018
Artprice’s press releases:
http://serveur.serveur.com/Press_Release/pressreleaseen.htm
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom
Artmarket News:
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom & https://twitter.com/artmarketdotcom
https://www.facebook.com/artpricedotcom 4,4 million subscribers
http://artmarketinsight.wordpress.com/
Discover the Alchemy and the universe of Artprice http://web.artprice.com/video, which headquarters are the famous Museum of Contemporary Art, the Abode of Chaos: https://issuu.com/demeureduchaos/docs/demeureduchaos-abodeofchaos-opus-ix-1999-2013
The Contemporary Art Museum The Abode of Chaos
https://www.facebook.com/la.demeure.du.chaos.theabodeofchaos999 3.9 million subscribers
Contact: ir@artprice.com
Artprice: a masterpiece by Caravaggio, a Monet, a Bacon and a small Basquiat to close out H1 2019
Artprice: a masterpiece by Caravaggio, a Monet, a Bacon and a small Basquiat to close out H1 2019
Since the beginning of the year the American art market has reassured all of its protagonists, and is now testing Richard Prince’s new range of cannabis products, Katz + Dogg, launched concurrently with the opening of his show High Times at the San Francisco Gagosian.
Meanwhile, the European market is reaching for a grand ‘finale’ to the year’s first semester with major sales in Paris, the 50th edition of Art Basel and London’s last major sales before the summer break. But… the big news in this ‘finale’ may well come from the South of France.
Thierry Ehrmann, Artprice’s founder/CEO is delighted: The first semester of 2019 could end with a kind of revolution on the French Art market. And for once… it’s a French initiative. An extraordinary masterpiece is being auctioned far from the major capitals… far from the major auction houses… and with no reserve price! The Caravaggio painting is so powerful and has such an extraordinary history, it doesn’t need any guarantees!
Michelangelo Merisi, aka Caravaggio (1571 – 1610)
Judith and Holofernes (c.1607)
© Marc Labarbe and Eric Turquin
The Toulouse Caravaggio: $115 million – $170 million
Quite simply the most spectacular event of the year: after its ‘release’ by the French state, a Caravaggio masterpiece will be offered for sale on Thursday 27 June 2019 in Toulouse where the painting was found, by chance, in an attic five years ago. Since receiving its export visa, the Judith and Holofernes painting has been exhibited at the Colnaghi gallery in London, at kamel mennour in Paris and at Adam Williams in New York.
Of course, the arrival of any work by Caravaggio on the auction market is an event in its own right. The last one dates back to 1971 when his painting Martha and Mary Magdalene – in a cloud of attribution doubts at the time – failed to sell at Christie’s in London. After the Detroit Institute of Art acquired it in 1973, the authenticity of the work was universally recognised and the painting is today considered an undisputed Caravaggio masterpiece.
The Toulouse painting is every bit as impressive and the DIA’s jewel: sooner or later, the work will be acquired by one of the world’s major museums. “It represents the only opportunity they will ever get to acquire a Caravaggio” warns art expert Eric Turquin. “It could be 40 or 50 years before another work is found” … and it probably won’t be nearly as as important as this one.
Since its rediscovery the Toulouse Judith and Holofernes has received support from a number of eminent specialists including the American curator Keith Christiansen (MET), the French curator Guillaume Kientz (Louvre) and the Italian Museum Director, Nicola Spinosa (Capodimonte). It is now up to academics to determine the place of this painting in Art History. David Stone from the University of Delaware believes the painting illustrates the invention of a new technique that Caravaggio developed after his arrival in Naples. The technique consists of using a base colour on the canvas, known as an imprimatura, to enhance the work and bring it to life.
To date, the sixty-eight known Caravaggio paintings are all kept in the world’s most prestigious collections, museums and churches in Europe and the United States. “There isn’t a single one in the Middle East or anywhere in Asia” says thierry Ehrmann. “And yet the 2016 Caravaggio exhibition in Tokyo was a huge success.”
A Monet Water-Lilies: $32 million – $44 million
So far this year, Claude Monet is the world’s best selling artist on the global auction market with 17 works having already generated over $200 million.
The year started badly when his Weeping Willow and Water-Lily pond (1916-19) failed to sell at Christie’s in London on 28 February. The best offer of $55 million (including fees) was below the seller’s minimum price pretension. However, far from being harmful to his market, that failure contributed to a healthy balance between supply and demand. Of the twenty Monet works put on sale during H1 2019, more than 80% were sold.
There is clearly no lack of demand for Monet’s work. On 14 May 2019, one of his Haystacks paintings (1890) was offered at Sotheby’s New York with a low estimate of $55 million. The painting sold for $110.5 million, setting a new world record for an Impressionist artwork. The value accretion, from $2.5 million in 1986 (Christie’s), speaks for itself.
On 19 June 2019 in London, Sotheby’s will be offering another Water-Lilies (1908) painting that has never previously been sold publicly.
A Francis Bacon self-portrait: $19 million – $25 million
London is no longer the primary market place for Francis Bacon’s works: the best three auction results for this artist have all been hammered in New York. In 2017, Christie’s London failed to sell his Study of Red Pope 1962. 2nd Version 1971 against an estimate of $130 million.
Nevertheless, on 26 June 2019, Bacon’s Self-Portrait (1975) will be offered for sale at Sotheby’s London branch on New Bond Street. In 2015, when the pound sterling was strong, the prestigious auction house sold it for $24 million. Four years later, against the backdrop of Brexit, Sotheby’s is hoping for a similar result.
A small Basquiat: $9.5 million – $14 million
So far this year, Jean-Michel Basquiat is an absentee from major market news. He currently ranks 22nd in Artprice’s temporary turnover ranking. After two explosive years on the secondary market, his paintings are becoming increasingly rare as collectors begin to restrict their offer. Only one of his works has crossed the $10 million threshold so far this year… and that was in May, in New York, of course. A second good quality canvas by the New York graffiti artist, entitled Sabado por la Noche (1984), is coming up for auction on 25 June at Christie’s in London.
Today, more than ever, the Museum Industry plays a massive role in the global art market and Basquiat is one of those artists who is in demand from prestigious museums and from the world’s most powerful collectors at the same time. Many people were surprised by the rapid growth in the prices of his works. In an interview with the New York Times in May 2017, Ann Temkin, head curator of the MoMA’s painting and sculpture department, regretted that the museum had not acquired Jean-Michel Basquiat’s works in time.
As thierry Ehrmann has often said: You have to buy the right work with the right story, by the right artist at the right time…
Copyright ©2019 thierry Ehrmann – www.artprice.com
Try our services (free demo):
https://www.artprice.com/artist/23640/baishi-qi
Subscribe to our services:
https://www.artprice.com/subscription
About Artprice:
Artprice is listed on the Eurolist by Euronext Paris, SRD long only and Euroclear: 7478 – Bloomberg: PRC – Reuters: ARTF.
Founded by thierry Ehrmann (see Who’s who certified Biography ) (c) https://imgpublic.artprice.com/img/wp/sites/11/2019/03/2019-bio-whoswho-thierry-ehrmann.pdf).
Dicover Artprice in video: https://www.artprice.com/video
Artprice is the global leader in art price and art index databanks. It has over 30 million indices and auction results covering more than 700,000 artists. Artprice Images® gives unlimited access to the largest Art Market resource in the world: a library of 126 million images or prints of artworks from the year 1700 to the present day, along with comments by Artprice’s art historians.
Artprice permanently enriches its databanks with information from 6,300 auctioneers and it publishes a constant flow of art market trends for the world’s principal news agencies and approximately 7,200 international press publications.
For its 4,500,000 members, Artprice gives access to the world’s leading Standardised Marketplace for buying and selling art. Artprice is preparing its blockchain for the Art Market. It is BPI-labelled (scientific national French label) Artprice’s Global Art Market Annual Report for 2018 published last March 2019: https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-art-market-in-2018
Artprice is associated with Artron Group the Chinese leader in the Art Market, its solid institutional partner.
About the Artron Group:
“Artron Art Group (Artron), a comprehensive cultural industrial group founded in 1993 by Wan jie, is committed to inheriting, enhancing and spreading art value. Based on abundant art data, Artron provides art industry and art fans with professional service and experience of quality products by integrated application of IT, advanced digital science and innovative crafts and materials.
Having produced more than 60,000 books and auction catalogues, Artron is the world’s largest art book printer with a total print volume of 300 million a year. It has more than 3 million professional members in the arts sector and an average of 15 million daily visits, making it the world’s leading art website.”
Artron’s Web: www.Artron.net
Artprice’s Contemporary Art Market Annual Report for 2018 – free access at:
https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-contemporary-art-market-report-2018
Artprice’s press releases:
http://serveur.serveur.com/Press_Release/pressreleaseen.htm
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom
Artmarket News:
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom & https://twitter.com/artmarketdotcom
https://www.facebook.com/artpricedotcom 4,4 million subscribers
http://artmarketinsight.wordpress.com/
Discover the Alchemy and the universe of Artprice http://web.artprice.com/video, which headquarters are the famous Museum of Contemporary Art, the Abode of Chaos: https://issuu.com/demeureduchaos/docs/demeureduchaos-abodeofchaos-opus-ix-1999-2013
The Contemporary Art Museum The Abode of Chaos
https://www.facebook.com/la.demeure.du.chaos.theabodeofchaos999 3.8 million subscribers
Contact: ir@artprice.com
Artprice：香港推动当代艺术市场的发展
Artprice：香港推动当代艺术市场的发展
艺术家张晓刚与雅昌文化集团总裁万捷先生（左）、Artprice 首席执行官 thierry Ehrmann（右）一起在他的工作室里。
佳士得拍卖行、菲利普斯拍卖行和邦瀚斯拍卖行终于开始在香港着手各自的 2019 年拍卖计划，其他大型拍卖行则是在两个月之前开始实施拍卖计划。巴塞尔香港艺术展刚一结束，苏富比拍卖行、中国嘉德拍卖公司、保利拍卖公司、匡时拍卖公司和首尔拍卖行便举办了各自的首场大型香港拍卖会。
各大拍卖行的拍卖计划中出现的这种不同寻常的分歧（尤其是佳士得和苏富比之间）似乎对香港艺术市场大有助益，如今这种情况在今年上半年较为常见。
Artprice 的首席执行官兼创始人 thierry Ehrmann 表示：“香港最大的一个优势是，可以提供各种各样来自世界各地的非凡作品。在这方面，它绝对是世界上独一无二的，可以让中国、日本、东南亚乃至欧洲和美国的最佳作品身价倍增。
菲利普斯拍卖行近期举办的夜场拍卖会对赵无极、罗伊·利希滕斯坦、张晓刚、奈良美智和安迪·沃霍尔的作品进行了拍卖。这批精挑细选的作品均享誉全球，充分反映出香港市场的财富实力。因此，中国和美国的所有大型拍卖行都希望进入香港市场。”
今年，香港成功吸引了广州华艺国际拍卖有限公司来此拓展业务。广州华艺国际拍卖有限公司成立于 1994 年。到 2019 年 5 月底，该公司已经在香港举办了不下七场拍卖会，这是它自成立起首次进入香港市场。
赵无极独占鳌头
不出所料，法籍华裔画家在佳士得拍卖行和菲利普斯拍卖行创下了最高拍卖纪录。去年 9 月份，他的作品创下 5750 万美元的价格记录，此后，这位抒情抽象大师便成为艺术市场的巨头之一。在 Artprice 2018 年拍卖成交额排行榜中位居第三，仅次于巴勃罗·毕加索和克劳德·莫奈。
佳士得拍卖行于 2019 年 5 月 25 日拍卖的八件赵无极画作成交价为 5000 万美元，占此次拍卖会总成交额的 45%。虽然此次拍卖成绩喜人，但或许可以更好，因为八件作品中最好的一件一幅大型帆布油画（名为《02.01.65》）未能售出。
毫无疑问，按照需求，这件作品的估价超过 3000 万美元，该价值与最新拍卖结果一致，但考虑到赵无极的作品价格在短期内不稳定，因此可能需要较长一段时间才能在市场上占据优势。2010 年，该作品仅以 270 万美元的价格售出。
Kaws 和 Richard Lin 胜券在握
2019 年 4 月，在苏富比于 初举行的拍卖会上，最引人注目的便是美国街头艺术家 Kaws 创造的令人意想不到的记录。他的画作《The Kaws Album 》(2005) 估价为 80 万到 100 万美元，但实际成交价却达到 1480 万美元（包括服务费），着实令人震惊。这位 Perrotin 和 Skarstedt 画廊的新秀艺术家今年在二级市场上旗开得胜。
《Half Full》(2012) 成为菲利普斯拍卖行售出的第 13 件价格超过 100 万美元的作品。2018 年 3 月，纽约佳士得以 44.45 万美元的价格购入这件帆布丙烯画，14 个月后又在香港以 140 万美元的价格转售出去。
抽象派画家 Richard Lin（1933 年-2011 年）的作品售价也大幅上涨。在他过世七年之后，人们对他的作品一直兴趣不减，致使他的作品在 2018 年三次刷新拍卖记录。2019 年 5 月 27 日，他的画作《1.3.1964 – Painting Relief》创下邦瀚斯拍卖行当代与现代艺术类别的最高拍卖记录。
当代中国艺术家的作品价格稳定
上世纪 50 年代出生的中国画家的身价在香港趋于稳定。这一代新兴中国油画大师并未创造新纪录（他们大多数人是在五六年前创下纪录），但他们的作品在亚洲很受欢迎，令收藏家倍感欣慰。
5 月 25 日，曾梵志的画作《Mask》(1996) 在佳士得拍卖行仅以不到 300 万美元的价格售出，远低于 2013 年他的大型帆布画《The Last Supper》(2001) 创下的 2300 万美元的记录，该记录令此后的画作再也无法企及。张晓刚的《Bloodline Series：The Big Family No. 10》(2000) 在同一天售出，情况类似，成交价为 160 万美元。而在 2014 年，同一系列中的另一幅作品——《Bloodline：The Big Family No.3》(1995) 售价超过 1200 万美元。
鉴于上述结果，我们明显可以看出，这一代中国艺术家的作品价格已经统一，即价值稳定在一个很高的水平。除了上述种种迹象以外，周春芽的画作《Stone Series – The Tree Connected to Stone》(1993) 的三次连续拍卖结果也证实了这一趋势，这三次拍卖结果如下：
24.6 万美元 — 2006 年 10 月 9 日（香港苏富比）
670 万美元 — 2014 年 4 月 5 日（香港苏富比）
410 万美元 — 2019 年 5 月 25 日（香港佳士得）
版权所有 ©2019 thierry Ehrmann – www.artprice.com
体验服务（免费试用）：
https://www.artprice.com/artist/23640/baishi-qi
订阅我们的服务：
https://www.artprice.com/subscription
关于 Artprice：
Artprice 在巴黎泛欧证券交易所上市 (仅用于股票研究数据库)：欧洲结算系统：7478 – Bloomberg: PRC – Reuters: ARTF。
Artprice 的创始人为 thierry Ehrmann（查看其认证简介）(c) https://imgpublic.artprice.com/img/wp/sites/11/2019/03/2019-bio-whoswho-thierry-ehrmann.pdf)。
观看视频了解 Artprice:https://www.artprice.com/video
Artprice 是全球领先的艺术市场行情及指数数据库。其拥有超过 3000 万条拍卖指数和拍卖结果，涵盖了 70 多万名艺术家。Artprice Images® 提供无访问限制的世界艺术市场上最大的数据图库,数据库中共有 自 1700 年至今的 1.26 亿张图片和艺术作品，以及 Artprice 艺术史学家的解说信息。
Artprice 从 6300 家拍卖行收集艺术拍卖信息不断丰富其数据库，并在全球主要新闻机构和约 7200 家国际新闻媒体上不断更新艺术市场趋势信息。
Artprice 为其 450 万会员提供访问世界领先的标准化艺术品市场的渠道，从而进行艺术品买卖交易。Artprice 正在筹建艺术市场区块链。以下是 BPI-标记（法国国家科学标志）Artprice 于 2019 年 3 月出版的 2018 年全球艺术市场年度报告：https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-art-market-in-2018
Artprice 与中国艺术市场领先企业雅昌文化集团密切合作，后者是其坚实的机构合作伙伴。
雅昌文化集团简介：
“雅昌文化集团是由万捷于 1993 年创立的一家综合性文化产业集团，致力于传承、提升和传播艺术价值。以丰富的艺术数据为基础，雅昌集团通过整合和应用 IT 技术、数字科学以及创新型的工艺和材料为艺术产业以及艺术爱好者们提供专业的服务和高品质产品体验。
雅昌已经制作了 6 万多本书籍和拍卖目录，是世界上最大的艺术书籍印刷商，年印刷总量达 3 亿。它在艺术领域拥有 300 多万专业会员，平均日访问量达 1500 万，使其成为世界领先的艺术网站”。
雅昌集团网站： www.Artron.net
Artprice 2018 年当代艺术市场年度报告 – 免费访问：
https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-contemporary-art-market-report-2018
Artprice 新闻稿：
http://serveur.serveur.com/Press_Release/pressreleaseen.htm
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom
艺术市场资讯：
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom & https://twitter.com/artmarketdotcom
https://www.facebook.com/artpricedotcom 430 万订阅者
http://artmarketinsight.wordpress.com/
探索充满魅力的 Artprice 世界 http://web.artprice.com/video，公司总部位于著名的 Abode of Chaos 当代艺术博物馆：https://issuu.com/demeureduchaos/docs/demeureduchaos-abodeofchaos-opus-ix-1999-2013
当代艺术博物馆 The Abode of Chaos
https://www.facebook.com/la.demeure.du.chaos.theabodeofchaos999 380 万订阅者
联系网址：ir@artprice.com
Artprice: Hong Kong drives the Contemporary Art Market
Artist Zhang Xiaogang in his studio with Wan Jie, Artron Group CEO (left) and thierry Ehrmann, Artprice CEO (right).
Christie’s, Phillips and Bonhams have at last started their 2019 sales programme in Hong Kong, two months after the other major auction houses began theirs. Sotheby’s, China Guardian, Poly, Council and Seoul Auction organized their first major Hong Kong sessions just after the Art Basel Hong Kong fair.
This unusual split in the major sales calendar (especially between Christie’s and Sotheby’s) appears to have benefited the Hong Kong Art Market, which is now more evenly spread over the first half of the year.
According to thierry Ehrmann, Artprice’s CEO and founder, “one of Hong Kong’s major advantages is its capacity to offer an extraordinary mix of works from around the world. In this respect, it is absolutely unique in the world, turning over the best works from China, Japan and all of Southeast Asia, but also from Europe and the United States.
Phillips’ recent evening sale included works by Zao Wou-Ki, Roy Lichtenstein, Zhang Xiaogang, Yoshitimo Nara and Andy Warhol. The selection was both prestigious and universal… a perfect reflection of the wealth of the Hong Kong marketplace. That’s why all the big auction houses, both Chinese and American, want to be there.”
Indeed, this year, Hong Kong’s attractiveness convinced the Guangzhou-based auctioneer Holly’s International to expand its activities there. Founded in 1994, Holly’s has organised no less than seven sales in Hong Kong for the end of May 2019… its first venture into the city since it began operations.
Zao Wou-Ki reigns supreme
The best results at Christie’s and Phillips were, unsurprisingly, generated by the Franco-Chinese painter Zao Wou-Ki. Since his massive record of $57.5 million last September, the master of lyrical abstraction has joined the giants of the art market, taking third place in Artprice’s 2018 auction turnover ranking, just behind Pablo Picasso and Claude Monet.
The eight Zao Wou-Ki paintings offered for sale by Christie’s on 25 May 2019 generated $50 million, accounting for 45% of the sale’s total turnover. It was a remarkable performance, but it could have been better because the best piece among the eight, a large oil on canvas titled 02/01/65, failed to sell.
No doubt the on-demand estimate was above $30 million, a value that is consistent with the latest results, but which in view of the rapid inflation of Zao Wou- Ki’s prices, might take a little longer to prevail on the market. In 2010, the same work was acquired for just $2.7 million.
Success confirmed for Kaws and Richard Lin
The sales organised by Sotheby’s at the beginning of April 2019 were particularly marked by the unexpected record for the American street artist Kaws. Estimated between $800,000 and $1 million, his painting The Kaws Album (2005) reached a staggering $14.8 million (including fees). The new star of the Perrotin and Skarstedt galleries has had an exceptional start to the year on the secondary market.
Phillips generated a thirteenth result above the $1 million line with Half Full (2012). Acquired in New York at Christie’s in March 2018 for $444,500, this acrylic on canvas was resold for $1.4 million in Hong Kong, just 14 months later.
The abstract painter Richard Lin (1933-2011) also generated substantially buoyant results. Seven years after his death, interest in his work renewed his auction record three times in 2018. On 27 May 2019 his painting 1.3.1964 – Painting Relief dominated Bonhams’ Contemporary & Modern Art sale.
Prices stabilise for works by Contemporary Chinese artists
The prices of Chinese painters born in the 1950s are firming in Hong Kong. Without setting new records (set five or six years ago for most of them), this generation of new Chinese masters of the oil painting medium is enjoying strong demand in Asia… and reassuring collectors.
On 25 May, Zeng Fanzhi’s painting Mask (1996) sold just under $3 million at Christie’s, far below the $23 million recorded in 2013 for his much larger canvas The Last Supper (2001), a value he has never come close to since then… Similarly, and on the same day, Zhang Xiaogang’s Bloodline Series: The Big Family No. 10 (2000) sold for $1.6 million. In 2014 his Bloodline: The Big Family No.3 (1995) from the same series fetched over $12 million.
In view of these results, we are clearly seeing a price consolidation on works by Chinese artists from this generation: their values are tending to stabilise at very high levels. This trend has been confirmed, among other signs, by three successive results for Zhou Chunya’s painting Stone Series – The Tree Connected to Stone (1993):
$246,000 – 9 October 2006 (Sotheby’s Hong Kong)
$6,700,000 – 5 April 2014 (Sotheby’s Hong Kong)
$4,100,000 – 25 May 2019 (Christie’s Hong Kong)
Copyright ©2019 thierry Ehrmann – www.artprice.com
Try our services (free demo):
https://www.artprice.com/artist/23640/baishi-qi
Subscribe to our services:
https://www.artprice.com/subscription
About Artprice:
Artprice is listed on the Eurolist by Euronext Paris, SRD long only and Euroclear: 7478 – Bloomberg: PRC – Reuters: ARTF.
Founded by thierry Ehrmann (see Who’s who certified Biography ) (c) https://imgpublic.artprice.com/img/wp/sites/11/2019/03/2019-bio-whoswho-thierry-ehrmann.pdf).
Dicover Artprice in video: https://www.artprice.com/video
Artprice is the global leader in art price and art index databanks. It has over 30 million indices and auction results covering more than 700,000 artists. Artprice Images® gives unlimited access to the largest Art Market resource in the world: a library of 126 million images or prints of artworks from the year 1700 to the present day, along with comments by Artprice’s art historians.
Artprice permanently enriches its databanks with information from 6,300 auctioneers and it publishes a constant flow of art market trends for the world’s principal news agencies and approximately 7,200 international press publications.
For its 4,500,000 members, Artprice gives access to the world’s leading Standardised Marketplace for buying and selling art. Artprice is preparing its blockchain for the Art Market. It is BPI-labelled (scientific national French label) Artprice’s Global Art Market Annual Report for 2018 published last March 2019: https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-art-market-in-2018
Artprice is associated with Artron Group the Chinese leader in the Art Market, its solid institutional partner.
About the Artron Group:
“Artron Art Group (Artron), a comprehensive cultural industrial group founded in 1993 by Wan jie, is committed to inheriting, enhancing and spreading art value. Based on abundant art data, Artron provides art industry and art fans with professional service and experience of quality products by integrated application of IT, advanced digital science and innovative crafts and materials.
Having produced more than 60,000 books and auction catalogues, Artron is the world’s largest art book printer with a total print volume of 300 million a year. It has more than 3 million professional members in the arts sector and an average of 15 million daily visits, making it the world’s leading art website.”
Artron’s Web: www.Artron.net
Artprice’s Contemporary Art Market Annual Report for 2018 – free access at:
https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-contemporary-art-market-report-2018
Artprice’s press releases:
http://serveur.serveur.com/Press_Release/pressreleaseen.htm
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom
Artmarket News:
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom & https://twitter.com/artmarketdotcom
https://www.facebook.com/artpricedotcom 4,3 million subscribers
http://artmarketinsight.wordpress.com/
Discover the Alchemy and the universe of Artprice http://web.artprice.com/video, which headquarters are the famous Museum of Contemporary Art, the Abode of Chaos: https://issuu.com/demeureduchaos/docs/demeureduchaos-abodeofchaos-opus-ix-1999-2013
The Contemporary Art Museum The Abode of Chaos
https://www.facebook.com/la.demeure.du.chaos.theabodeofchaos999 3.8 million subscribers
Contact: ir@artprice.com
Artprice: the Art Market snaps up the new ‘Classics of Contemporary Art’
The Art Market might have seemed a little hungover in early 2019… in need of some event that would reassure everyone… and that’s exactly what New York’s prestige sales did last week. The results proved that the hammer prices recorded in Q1 in London, notably for David Hockney and Claude Monet, as well as in Hong Kong for Zhang Daqian and Kaws, reflect a new paradigm that is generally favorable for the global Art Market as a whole.
Evolution of the record auction price for a living artist
Collective work thierry Ehrmann – The Abode of Chaos (Right)
thierry Ehrmann, Artprice’s founder/CEO, is delighted: “Within just five days, Christie’s, Sotheby’s, Phillips and Bonhams organized 16 sales in New York generating a total turnover of $2.06 billion! François Pinault’s organisation achieved the best performance thanks to a Post-War & Contemporary Art evening sale that alone took $539 million from just 51 lots sold.
Not only is demand strong for the best artworks… above all the market seems to have moved into a new paradigm that will allow it to renew its offer: it can now produce new ‘classics’ by offering ‘masterpieces of Contemporary art’.
This is what we saw with Jeff Koons’ Rabbit (1986) sculpture. It was presented by Christie’s as an ‘icon’ of Contemporary Art, in the same way as paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat, and probably certain works by Damien Hirst as well. But we will have to wait until the next big sales to see confirmation of this trend.”
Jeff Koons is now more expensive than Van Gogh or Rubens…
A new record of $91 million – making Jeff Koons the world’s most valued living artist – also gives him a special place in Art History… To everyone’s surprise, his Rabbit (1986) became more expensive on the auction market than any of Van Gogh’s works to date. The Dutch master’s record is still standing at $82.5 million since his Portrait du Docteur Gachet sold in 1990.
Only 11 artists in auction history have ever generated results above the Jeff Koons Rabbit: da Vinci, Picasso, Modigliani, Bacon, Qi Baishi, Munch, Monet, Basquiat, Warhol, Lichtenstein and Hopper. If the Jeff Koons Market has been somewhat dormant in recent years, it is now completely revived… And with him, the entire Contemporary Art machine has received a boost.
Rauschenberg at the top
Two years after his retrospective at the MoMA and the Tate Modern, Robert Rauschenberg is a bright star of the auction market. The American artist-sculptor, who campaigned for the introduction of artists’ resale rights after the sale of the Robert Scull collection in 1973, probably didn’t imagine that his works would ever reach such amounts.
On 15 May 2019, his Buffalo II reached $88 million at Christie’s. Locked up for 54 years in the collection of Robert B. Mayer, who acquired it directly from the Leo Castelli Gallery, this painting is both an ode to and a critique of the American Dream. This new record puts him in the same league as his contemporaries Andy Warhol ($105.4 million) and Roy Lichtenstein ($96.4 million).
Monet triggers the 10th best-ever Fine Art auction result of all time
As exciting as a summer soap opera…! After the announcement of the sale of Claude Monet’s (1840-1926) Meules at Sotheby’s NY on 14 May, the question of a possible record was on everyone’s lips! The last haystacks painting auctioned – with similar dimensions, date and composition – fetched more than $80 million at Christie’s NY in November 2016. Monet’s absolute record dates back to the sale of the Rockefeller collection in May 2018 when his Nymphéas en fleur fetched nearly $85 million (also at Christie’s NY)… The suspense is now over: for eight long minutes on 14 May six bidders competed for the masterpiece. Harry Dalmeny finally brought the hammer down at $110.7 million. That’s more than 40 times its previous value: already sold in 1986 for $2.53 million, the work belonged to the descendants of Bertha and Potter Palmer, wealthy Chicago collectors, who acquired the Meules painting through Paul Durand-Ruel in 1891.
Sotheby’s had already set the bar high – betting on the work’s prestigious provenance – giving the work a low estimate of $55 million (a fact that did not go unnoticed in the art press)… However, in the end, an Impressionist painting has crossed the symbolic threshold of $100 million for the first time ever. Meules also enters the Top 10 most expensive artworks ever sold publicly. The interest for the Impressionists and 19th century works is undeniable, despite the attraction for Contemporary Art and the new generation of bidders arriving on the market. Asian collectors are particularly enthusiastic and are now contribute to the stability of this section of the market.
Copyright ©2019 thierry Ehrmann – www.artprice.com
Try our services (free demo):
https://www.artprice.com/artist/23640/baishi-qi
Subscribe to our services:
https://www.artprice.com/subscription
About Artprice:
Artprice is listed on the Eurolist by Euronext Paris, SRD long only and Euroclear: 7478 – Bloomberg: PRC – Reuters: ARTF.
Founded by thierry Ehrmann (see Who’s who certified Biography ) (c) https://imgpublic.artprice.com/img/wp/sites/11/2019/03/2019-bio-whoswho-thierry-ehrmann.pdf).
Dicover Artprice in video: https://www.artprice.com/video
Artprice is the global leader in art price and art index databanks. It has over 30 million indices and auction results covering more than 700,000 artists. Artprice Images® gives unlimited access to the largest Art Market resource in the world: a library of 126 million images or prints of artworks from the year 1700 to the present day, along with comments by Artprice’s art historians.
Artprice permanently enriches its databanks with information from 6,300 auctioneers and it publishes a constant flow of art market trends for the world’s principal news agencies and approximately 7,200 international press publications.
For its 4,500,000 members, Artprice gives access to the world’s leading Standardised Marketplace for buying and selling art. Artprice is preparing its blockchain for the Art Market. It is BPI-labelled (scientific national French label) Artprice’s Global Art Market Annual Report for 2018 published last March 2019: https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-art-market-in-2018
Artprice is associated with Artron Group the Chinese leader in the Art Market, its solid institutional partner.
About the Artron Group:
“Artron Art Group (Artron), a comprehensive cultural industrial group founded in 1993 by Wan jie, is committed to inheriting, enhancing and spreading art value. Based on abundant art data, Artron provides art industry and art fans with professional service and experience of quality products by integrated application of IT, advanced digital science and innovative crafts and materials.
Having produced more than 60,000 books and auction catalogues, Artron is the world’s largest art book printer with a total print volume of 300 million a year. It has more than 3 million professional members in the arts sector and an average of 15 million daily visits, making it the world’s leading art website.”
Artron’s Web: www.Artron.net
Artprice’s Contemporary Art Market Annual Report for 2018 – free access at:
https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-contemporary-art-market-report-2018
Artprice’s press releases:
http://serveur.serveur.com/Press_Release/pressreleaseen.htm
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom
Artmarket News:
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom & https://twitter.com/artmarketdotcom
https://www.facebook.com/artpricedotcom 4 million subscribers
http://artmarketinsight.wordpress.com/
Discover the Alchemy and the universe of Artprice http://web.artprice.com/video, which headquarters are the famous Museum of Contemporary Art, the Abode of Chaos: https://issuu.com/demeureduchaos/docs/demeureduchaos-abodeofchaos-opus-ix-1999-2013
The Contemporary Art Museum The Abode of Chaos
https://www.facebook.com/la.demeure.du.chaos.theabodeofchaos999 3.6 million subscribers
Contact: ir@artprice.com
Artprice：雕塑，未来的媒介!
《Le Messager》(使者)
Abode of Chaos 博物馆藏品 / thierry Ehrmann – Rémy Teulier
[https://imgpublic.artprice.com/img/wp/sites/11/2019/05/le-messager.jpg]
thierry Ehrmann: “除了在西方世界和其他地区几乎所有的城市和城镇都能见到的纪念雕像以外，大城市通常还喜欢在公共区域修建大型纪念雕塑。纽约矗立着一些由 Robert Indiana、Alexander Calder、Jean Dubuffet 和 Pablo Picasso 创造的作品，而在巴黎则可以看到 César、Daniel Buren 以及 Jeff Koons 的作品。”
诚然，考虑到占据大城市公共区域的作品（无论临时还是永久）数量，有一部分引发了争议（有时甚至异常激烈）也不足为奇。近年来，法国（尤其是巴黎）已经成为艺术争议的高发地。比如，凡登广场上关于 Paul McCarthy 的作品——《Tree》 (2014) 的争议，凡尔赛城里关于 Anish Kapoor 的作品——《Dirty Corner》 (2015) 的争议，以及蓬皮杜中心门前关于 Joep Van Lieshout 的作品——《Domestikator》 (2017) 的争议。
这些纪念作品规模庞大，在当地城市或景观环境中异常显眼，增添了雕塑的“震撼效果”。Arman 在贝鲁特创作的雕塑作品——Espoir de paix (1995) 便是一个很好的例证，该雕塑是一座高 32 米的混凝土塔楼，里面架设了几十架真正的坦克。
在世界各地，有越来越多的空间让位于雕塑，包括一些永久展览场地（比如新西兰的吉布斯农场，或者日本的Na直岛町和丰岛 Islands）和年度活动（比如每年秋季在伦敦举办的弗里兹雕塑 (Frieze Sculpture)）。
由于这些地区专门为此进行了特别设计，出现了新的机遇，因此雕塑最终突破了建筑和绘画的范围。
艺术市场上的雕塑
长期以来，收藏家一直对展示、储存和运输难度高于二维作品的媒介望而却步。但是，在 2003 年到 2008 年间，雕塑作品拍卖带来的收益翻了 4.5 倍。近五年来，二级市场上的全球雕塑销售收益从 2.45 亿美元增加到 11 亿美元。
受金融危机影响而下滑的雕塑销售收益很快恢复，并在 2014 年和 2015 年表现尤其出众。
全球雕塑拍卖收益
全球雕塑拍卖收益
[https://imgpublic.artprice.com/img/wp/sites/11/2019/05/artprice-sculpture-en.png]
Artprice 的首席执行官兼创始人 thierry Ehrmann解释道：“雕塑市场正朝着相反的方向发展，最终实现非物质化：在一个信息、图像和资金几乎瞬时流动的世界里，大体量的钢铁或青铜雕塑具有更重要的意义。
几个世纪以来，绘画和油画作品由于具备实用性，一直在艺术市场占据主导地位，但如今，雕塑作品回归一线也屡见不鲜。三维作品可以更好地表达自由，在 21 世纪的今天，人们在物流方面的顾虑也大为减少。”
Kitsch 引领当代雕塑市场
Jeff Koons 于 1986 年创作的三件 Rabbit 雕塑中，有一件将于 2019 年 5 月 15 日在纽约佳士得拍卖行进行拍卖，该雕塑的估价为 5000 – 7000 万美元。这件一米高的不锈钢杰作（三件作品中的一件，外加 1 件艺术家试印版）可以说是 Jeff Koons 最具代表性的作品，甚至可能是当代艺术中最具代表性的作品（至少在当代意味着后现代、概念性或者非智力的媚俗艺术时可以这样说……）。
六年前，Jeff Koons 凭借作品——《Balloon Dog》 (1994-2000) 一跃成为艺术市场身价最高的在世艺术家。2013 年 11 月 12 日，这件橙色作品在纽约佳士得拍卖行售出 5840 万美元的高价。Koons 重拾“身价最高的在世艺术家”头衔希望渺茫，只有当他的作品——Rabbit (1986) 的售价超过 9030 万美元，也就是 David Hockney 的作品 《Portrait of an Artist 》(1972) 拍出的价格时，才能实现这一点。但是，这件作品还是促使了这位“媚俗王子”的市场以及整个当代艺术市场的复苏。
Alberto Giacometti，无可争辩的领导者
雕塑品拍卖会上创下最高拍卖纪录的三件作品全部由 Alberto Giacometti 创作。三件作品最终的售价均超过 1 亿美元，所以，Giacometti 无疑是有史以来身价最高的艺术家，也是二级市场上最成功的的雕塑家。
但是，在同一件作品的五个版本（包括一件艺术家试印版）同时存在的情况下，他的 《L’Homme au doigt》 (1947) 是如何在 2015 年 5 月的纽约佳士得拍卖会上拍出 1.41 亿美元高价的呢？雕塑的可复制性一直被视为影响价格的一个弱点，但这个弱点也可以成为一种优势。因为拥有一件 《L’Homme au doigt》 (1947) 这样的作品主要是为了和世界最大的博物馆共享一件作品，比如现代艺术博物馆、泰特现代艺术馆和得梅因艺术中心。
Brancusi 主导 2018 年
Constantin Brancusi 的作品—— 《The Sophisticated Girl》（Nancy Cunard 的肖像）(1928) 高度仅有 55 厘米，于 2018 年 5 月 15 日在纽约佳士得拍卖行以 7100 万美元的价格售出，促使这位法国和罗马尼亚混血雕塑家成为全球艺术市场的领导者。这是当年最好的雕塑拍卖结果，在所有类别的美术作品最佳拍卖结果中排名第八。
1927 年，“Brancusi 诉美国”案成为艺术史上的一个重要转折点。对于前美国海关来说，Brancusi 的雕塑并非严格意义上的艺术品，但此案迫使当局扩展了艺术品的概念。九十年后，人们对此再无一丝怀疑：Brancusi 被誉为 20 世纪最重要的艺术家之一。美国最高法院已经对艺术品的“认知价值”作出了定义。
Artprice 与 Demeure du Chaos/Abode of Chaos
1999 年，Artprice 将总部设在 Organe Contemporary Art Museum，该博物馆对 Demeure du Chaos/Abode of Chaos 实施管理。这家露天博物馆占地 9000 平方米，倡导自由精神，并且供人们免费参观。博物馆中收藏了 5400 件艺术品、720 件纪念雕塑（重量从 5 吨到 120 吨不等），以及一件准备用来庆祝 20 周年纪念的雕塑作品：重 235 吨的原钢雕塑（尺寸为：3.33 米 x 3.33 米 x 3.33 米）。
这里所有的原钢雕塑均由 Artprice 的首席执行官兼创始人 thierry Ehrmann 创作。从 1980 年起，他便是一名雕塑家，也就是说，三十九年来，他一直对艺术怀有巨大的热情，他也很乐于和世界各地的游客分享这种热情。
版权所有 ©2019 thierry Ehrmann – www.artprice.com
体验服务（免费试用）：
https://www.artprice.com/artist/23640/baishi-qi
订阅我们的服务：
https://www.artprice.com/subscription
关于 Artprice：
Artprice 在巴黎泛欧证券交易所上市 (仅用于股票研究数据库)：欧洲结算系统：7478 – Bloomberg: PRC – Reuters: ARTF。
Artprice 的创始人为 thierry Ehrmann（查看其认证简介）(c) https://imgpublic.artprice.com/img/wp/sites/11/2019/03/2019-bio-whoswho-thierry-ehrmann.pdf)。
观看视频了解 Artprice:https://www.artprice.com/video
Artprice 是全球领先的艺术市场行情及指数数据库。其拥有超过 3000 万条拍卖指数和拍卖结果，涵盖了 70 多万名艺术家。Artprice Images® 提供无访问限制的世界艺术市场上最大的数据图库,数据库中共有 自 1700 年至今的 1.26 亿张图片和艺术作品，以及 Artprice 艺术史学家的解说信息。
Artprice 从 6300 家拍卖行收集艺术拍卖信息不断丰富其数据库，并在全球主要新闻机构和约 7200 家国际新闻媒体上不断更新艺术市场趋势信息。
Artprice 为其 450 万会员提供访问世界领先的标准化艺术品市场的渠道，从而进行艺术品买卖交易。Artprice 正在筹建艺术市场区块链。以下是 BPI-标记（法国国家科学标志）Artprice 于 2019 年 3 月出版的 2018 年全球艺术市场年度报告：https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-art-market-in-2018
Artprice 与中国艺术市场领先企业雅昌文化集团密切合作，后者是其坚实的机构合作伙伴。
雅昌文化集团简介：
“雅昌文化集团是由万捷于 1993 年创立的一家综合性文化产业集团，致力于传承、提升和传播艺术价值。以丰富的艺术数据为基础，雅昌集团通过整合和应用 IT 技术、数字科学以及创新型的工艺和材料为艺术产业以及艺术爱好者们提供专业的服务和高品质产品体验。
雅昌已经制作了 6 万多本书籍和拍卖目录，是世界上最大的艺术书籍印刷商，年印刷总量达 3 亿。它在艺术领域拥有 300 多万专业会员，平均日访问量达 1500 万，使其成为世界领先的艺术网站”
雅昌集团网站： www.Artron.net
Artprice 2018 年当代艺术市场年度报告 – 免费访问：
https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-contemporary-art-market-report-2018
Artprice 新闻稿：
http://serveur.serveur.com/Press_Release/pressreleaseen.htm
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom
艺术市场资讯：
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom & https://twitter.com/artmarketdotcom
https://www.facebook.com/artpricedotcom 400 万订阅者
http://artmarketinsight.wordpress.com/
探索充满魅力的 Artprice 世界 http://web.artprice.com/video，公司总部位于著名的 Abode of Chaos 当代艺术博物馆：https://issuu.com/demeureduchaos/docs/demeureduchaos-abodeofchaos-opus-ix-1999-2013
当代艺术博物馆 The Abode of Chaos
https://www.facebook.com/la.demeure.du.chaos.theabodeofchaos999 360 万订阅者
联系网址：ir@artprice.com
Artprice: Sculpture, the medium of tomorrow
Le Messager
The Abode of Chaos collective work / thierry Ehrmann – Rémy Teulier
[https://imgpublic.artprice.com/img/wp/sites/11/2019/05/le-messager.jpg]
thierry Ehrmann: “Apart from commemorative statues that can be found in nearly all the towns and cities in the Western World and elsewhere, big cities have always been fond of large and monumental sculptures in public spaces. In New York there are works by Robert Indiana, Alexander Calder, Jean Dubuffet and Pablo Picasso, while in Paris you can find works by César, Daniel Buren… and soon, Jeff Koons.”
Indeed, considering the number of works that have occupied public places in major cities, either temporarily or permanently, it is not surprising that some have elicited controversy… and sometimes, quite heated. In recent years, France – and Paris in particular – has been the setting for a number of art controversies such as those surrounding Paul McCarthy’s Tree (2014) on the Place Vendome, Anish Kapoor’s Dirty Corner (2015) at Versailles and Joep Van Lieshout’s Domestikator (2017) in front of the Pompidou Center.
The sheer size of these monumental works often adds to their “shock effect” as they dominate the local urban or landscaped environments.Arman’s sculpture in Beirut, Espoir de paix (1995), a 32-meter-high concrete tower containing dozens of real tanks, is a good example.
There are more and more spaces devoted to sculpture around the world: permanent exhibition sites, such as the Gibbs Farm in New Zealand or Naoshima and Teshima Islands in Japan, as well as annual events such as Frieze Sculpture held every autumn in London.
Thanks to these new opportunities in places designed specifically for the purpose, sculpture is definitively liberating itself from architecture and painting.
Sculpture on the Art Market
Collectors have long been intimidated by a medium that is more complicated to display, store and transport than two-dimensional works. However, between 2003 and 2008, the volume of auction turnover generated by sculptures multiplied 4.5 times. In just five years, worldwide sculpture sales on the secondary market rose from $245 million to $1.1 billion.
Stalled by the financial crisis, sculpture sales immediately recovered and then enjoyed two particularly good years in 2014 and 2015.
Global auction turnover from sculpture
Global auction turnover from sculpture
[https://imgpublic.artprice.com/img/wp/sites/11/2019/05/artprice-sculpture-en.png]
thierry Ehrmann, Artprice’s CEO and founder, explains: The sculpture market is moving in the opposite direction to dematerialization: in a world of almost–instant flows of information, images and money, the massive weight of a steel or bronze sculpture has greater significance.
For centuries, drawing and painting dominated the Art Market for practical reasons; but it is perfectly normal to see sculpture returning to the forefront today. A 3-dimensional work expresses greater freedom, and, in the 21st century, logistical considerations are much less challenging.
Kitsch leads Contemporary sculpture market
On 15 May 2019, one of Jeff Koons’ three 1986 Rabbit sculptures will be offered for sale at Christie’s in New York with an estimated price range of $50 – $70 million. This exceptional 1-meter high stainless steel work (from an edition of 3, plus 1 artist’s proof), is arguably Jeff Koons’ most iconic work, and perhaps Contemporary art’s most iconic work as well (at least insofar as Contemporary means post-modern, conceptual or its less intellectual brother-in-arms, kitsch…).
Six years ago, Jeff Koons became the most expensive living artist on the Art Market with his Balloon Dog (1994-2000). The orange version sold for $58.4 million on 12 November 2013 at Christie’s in New York. It is unlikely that Koons will recover his “most valued living artist” title; to do so, his Rabbit (1986) would have to fetch over $90.3 million, the amount paid for David Hockney’s Portrait of an Artist (1972). However the piece may well revive the Prince of Kitsch’s market, as well as all the Contemporary Art as a whole.
Alberto Giacometti, the undisputed leader
The top three prices ever recorded at auction for sculptures were all hammered for works by Alberto Giacometti. With three results above the $100 million threshold, Giacometti is one of the most expensive artists in history and, without a doubt, the most successful sculptor on the secondary market.
But how did his L’Homme au doigt (1947) reach $141 million at Christie’s New York in May 2015 when there are five other versions of the same work (plus an artist’s proof)? In price terms, sculpture’s reproducibility is often seen as a weak point, but the same characteristic can also be its strength. Because owning a work like L’Homme au doigt (1947) is to share a work with the greatest museums in the world, including the MoMA, the Tate Modern and the Des Moines Art Center.
Brancusi dominates 2018
Measuring just 55 cm high, Constantin Brancusi’s The Sophisticated Girl (Portrait of Nancy Cunard) (1928) was acquired for $71 million on 15 May 2018 at Christie’s in New York, propelling the Franco-Romanian sculptor to the forefront of the global Art Market. It was the year’s best sculpture result and the 8th best Fine Art result in all categories.
In 1927, the “Brancusi versus the United States” trial marked a major turning point in Art History. For the former US Customs Service, Brancusi’s sculptures were not, strictly speaking, artworks… but the trial forced the authorities to broaden the notion of an artwork. Ninety years later, not a shred of doubt remains: Brancusi is celebrated as one of the most important artists of the 20th century. The American Supreme Court had just defined the ‘cognitive value’ of a work of art.
Artprice and the Demeure du Chaos/Abode of Chaos
In 1999, Artprice set up its headquarters within the Organe Contemporary Art Museum, which manages the Demeure du Chaos/Abode of Chaos. This open-air museum of 9,000 square meters, bothfree in spirit and free for visitors, is home to 5,400 artworks, 720 monumental sculptures (from 5 to 120 tons) with one currently being prepared to celebrate its 20th anniversary: a steel sculpture weighing 235 tons (measuring 3.33m x 3.33m x 3.33m).
All the raw steel sculptures on the site have been created by thierry Ehrmann, CEO and founderof Artprice, but also a sculptor since 1980, which means thirty-nine years of a passion for art that he gladly shares with visitors from all over the world.
Copyright ©2019 thierry Ehrmann – www.artprice.com
Try our services (free demo):
https://www.artprice.com/artist/23640/baishi-qi
Subscribe to our services:
https://www.artprice.com/subscription
About Artprice:
Artprice is listed on the Eurolist by Euronext Paris, SRD long only and Euroclear: 7478 – Bloomberg: PRC – Reuters: ARTF.
Founded by thierry Ehrmann (see Who’s who certified Biography ) (c) https://imgpublic.artprice.com/img/wp/sites/11/2019/03/2019-bio-whoswho-thierry-ehrmann.pdf).
Dicover Artprice in video: https://www.artprice.com/video
Artprice is the global leader in art price and art index databanks. It has over 30 million indices and auction results covering more than 700,000 artists. Artprice Images® gives unlimited access to the largest Art Market resource in the world: a library of 126 million images or prints of artworks from the year 1700 to the present day, along with comments by Artprice’s art historians.
Artprice permanently enriches its databanks with information from 6,300 auctioneers and it publishes a constant flow of art market trends for the world’s principal news agencies and approximately 7,200 international press publications.
For its 4,500,000 members, Artprice gives access to the world’s leading Standardised Marketplace for buying and selling art. Artprice is preparing its blockchain for the Art Market. It is BPI-labelled (scientific national French label) Artprice’s Global Art Market Annual Report for 2018 published last March 2019: https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-art-market-in-2018
Artprice is associated with Artron Group the Chinese leader in the Art Market, its solid institutional partner.
About the Artron Group:
“Artron Art Group (Artron), a comprehensive cultural industrial group founded in 1993 by Wan jie, is committed to inheriting, enhancing and spreading art value. Based on abundant art data, Artron provides art industry and art fans with professional service and experience of quality products by integrated application of IT, advanced digital science and innovative crafts and materials.
Having produced more than 60,000 books and auction catalogues, Artron is the world’s largest art book printer with a total print volume of 300 million a year. It has more than 3 million professional members in the arts sector and an average of 15 million daily visits, making it the world’s leading art website.”
Artron’s Web: www.Artron.net
Artprice’s Contemporary Art Market Annual Report for 2018 – free access at:
https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-contemporary-art-market-report-2018
Artprice’s press releases:
http://serveur.serveur.com/Press_Release/pressreleaseen.htm
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom
Artmarket News:
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom & https://twitter.com/artmarketdotcom
https://www.facebook.com/artpricedotcom 4 million subscribers
http://artmarketinsight.wordpress.com/
Discover the Alchemy and the universe of Artprice http://web.artprice.com/video, which headquarters are the famous Museum of Contemporary Art, the Abode of Chaos: https://issuu.com/demeureduchaos/docs/demeureduchaos-abodeofchaos-opus-ix-1999-2013
The Contemporary Art Museum The Abode of Chaos
https://www.facebook.com/la.demeure.du.chaos.theabodeofchaos999 3.6 million subscribers
Contact: ir@artprice.com
ARTPRICE: Big is beautiful…
One of Louise Bourgeois’s six Spider sculptures, measuring more than 7 meters across and 3 meters tall, will be offered for sale at Christie’s on 15 May 2019 in New York. Numbered 3/6 in the series, the work already fetched $28.2 million in 2015 and Louise Bourgeois’s prices have stayed steady since then.
It could become the most expensive artwork by a female artist ever sold at auction.
Giuseppe Bezzuloli (1784 – 1855) – Folly driving the chariot of Love L: 4.8 m; H: 3.4 m.
“Like it or not, when it comes to art, size is very important. Giant works fascinate us because they transcend our own scale. Who isn’t impressed by huge paintings like Pablo Picasso’s Guernica (at the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid) or Veronese’s Les Noces de Cana (at the Louvre Museum in Paris)?” says thierry Ehrmann, Artprice’s Founder/CEO
In general, an artist’s largest works attract the strongest demand. For equivalent quality, the larger works will almost always be worth more than the smaller works.
This week, Artprice picks out a selection of 10 monumental works auctioned in 2018 in each of the major artistic mediums.
PAINTINGS
Zao Wou-Ki – Juin-Octobre 1985
10 x 2.8 meters
On 30 September 2018, Zao Wou-Ki’s Juin-Octobre 1985 triptych – his largest work still in circulation – caused a major sensation when it was re-offered for sale at Sotheby’s. In May 2005, Christie’s sold the same work in Hong Kong for $2.3 million. Thirteen and a half years later, its value exceeded $65 million, i.e. no less than 28 times its previous value.
Mark Bradford – Helter Skelter I (2007)
10 x 3.65 meters
American painter Mark Bradford had a particularly good year in 2018. In 2017, he represented the United States at the Venice Biennale. But it wasn’t until the first half of the following year that his prices began to inflate rapidly, generating three new auction records.
On 8 March 2018, his Helter Skelter I (2007) came close to $12 million at Phillips in London. This huge piece was a key element in the exhibition Collage: The Unmonumental Picture organized by the New York Museum in New York in 2008.
Osgemeos – It is Supposed to be Raining But… (2008)
2.5 x 2.5 metres
This large format canvas allowed the Brazilian duo of graphic artists to express their art in superb style. Accustomed to large facades, the two street artists have produced a large number of reasonably dimensioned paintings for the market. However, their very large canvases capture all the power of their street art. On 26 June 2018, the painting fetched $132,000 at Phillips in London.
DRAWINGS
Takashi Murakami – Dragon in Clouds-Red Mutation (2010)
18 x 3.6 meters
Takashi Murakami’s imaginary world stands at the crossroads of manga culture and Sino-Japanese mythology. In April 2018, the auction house Council sold one of his three large-scale interpretations of Asia’s most popular mythical creature, the dragon. His colossal drawing – red ink on paper – titled Dragon in Clouds-Red Mutation seduced Chinese collectors in Shanghai, fetching more than $8.8 million.
Giuseppe Bezzuloli – Folly driving the cart of Love
481 x 344 cm.
Commissioned in 1848 to paint the ceiling of the Palazzo Gerini in Florence, Giuseppe Bezzuloli executed this study on the theme of Love and Madness. The final fresco still adorns the ceiling of the famous Tuscan Palace.
Estimated between $50,000 and $80,000, the drawing was purchased for $275,000 at Christie’s in New York on 30 January 2018. Nowadays, very large-scale historical works are extremely rare on the market and this post-Renaissance drawing – which still retains all its power – was a superb acquisition.
SCULPTURE
KAWS – Clean Slate (2014)
5.5 x 5.5 x 7.5 meters
Kaws is currently an in vogue artist par excellence… from New York… to Hong Kong. The American street artist has conquered the international art market with his colorful paintings, his large-scale figurines and his monumental sculptures. Clean Slate (2014) was shown all around the world (Shanghai, Ibiza, Hong Kong and Fort Worth) before being put on sale by Phillips in New York, where it was acquired for nearly $2 million.
Philippe de Buyster (Attrib.) – Vierge de pitié (c.1650-60)
1.6 x 0.5 x 1.3 meters
This 17th century Pietà was one of the very few large-scale Old Master works sold last year. In perfect condition, the terracotta sculpture came from the Chapel of Château d’Autricourt in Burgundy (France). Christie’s sold the piece for $58,000 (including costs) in Paris on 19 June 2018.
Joana Vasconcelos – Betty Boop (2010)
4.1 x 1.5 x 3 meters
This huge high-heeled shoe made of stainless steel pots and concrete is a perfect example of Joana Vasconcelos’s taste for oversize. The Franco-Portuguese artist has never been afraid to invest large places like the Bon Marché department store in Paris or the Palace of Versailles where Betty Boop (2010) was presented in the Hall of Mirrors in 2012.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Gilbert & George – Thirty-Five Locations (2003)
422 x 361 cm
The British duo Gilbert & George is not doing as well on the secondary market as in 2008, but their unique large-format photos continue to fetch very good prices. Consisting of 24 rectangular sections, Thirty-Five Locations resembles a huge stained glass window in black, white and red. It was the largest photographic work sold during 2018 and fetched $150,000 at Sotheby’s in New York (17 May).
MIXED MEDIA
Tracey Emin – Dark Dark Dark (2007)
3.6 x 1.6 x 1.5 metres
In 2007 Artwise commissioned Tracey Emin to customise four Fiat 500s (each unique) for a charity sale. On 5 December 2018 at Phillips’ New Now sale, one of them fetched $8,000. In the catalogue Phillips warned Please note this lot is offered as an art work, and not a motor vehicle…
The use of motor vehicles as an artistic medium may seem bizarre, but several major artists have lent themselves to the exercise in the past. The BMW Art Car project, for example, allowed Andy Warhol, David Hockney and Jeff Koons to completely transform the exteriors of cars.
Copyright ©2019 thierry Ehrmann – www.artprice.com
Try our services (free demo):
https://www.artprice.com/artist/23640/baishi-qi
Subscribe to our services:
https://www.artprice.com/subscription
About Artprice:
Artprice is listed on the Eurolist by Euronext Paris, SRD long only and Euroclear: 7478 – Bloomberg: PRC – Reuters: ARTF.
Founded by thierry Ehrmann (see Who’s who certified Biography ) (c) https://imgpublic.artprice.com/img/wp/sites/11/2019/03/2019-bio-whoswho-thierry-ehrmann.pdf).
Dicover Artprice in video: https://www.artprice.com/video
Artprice is the global leader in art price and art index databanks. It has over 30 million indices and auction results covering more than 700,000 artists. Artprice Images® gives unlimited access to the largest Art Market resource in the world: a library of 126 million images or prints of artworks from the year 1700 to the present day, along with comments by Artprice’s art historians.
Artprice permanently enriches its databanks with information from 6,300 auctioneers and it publishes a constant flow of art market trends for the world’s principal news agencies and approximately 7,200 international press publications.
For its 4,500,000 members, Artprice gives access to the world’s leading Standardised Marketplace for buying and selling art. Artprice is preparing its blockchain for the Art Market. It is BPI-labelled (scientific national French label) Artprice’s Global Art Market Annual Report for 2018 published last March 2019: https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-art-market-in-2018
Artprice is associated with Artron Group the Chinese leader in the Art Market, its solid institutional partner.
About the Artron Group:
“Artron Art Group (Artron), a comprehensive cultural industrial group founded in 1993 by Wan jie, is committed to inheriting, enhancing and spreading art value. Based on abundant art data, Artron provides art industry and art fans with professional service and experience of quality products by integrated application of IT, advanced digital science and innovative crafts and materials.
Having produced more than 60,000 books and auction catalogues, Artron is the world’s largest art book printer with a total print volume of 300 million a year. It has more than 3 million professional members in the arts sector and an average of 15 million daily visits, making it the world’s leading art website.”
Artron’s Web: www.Artron.net
Artprice’s Contemporary Art Market Annual Report for 2018 – free access at:
https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-contemporary-art-market-report-2018
Artprice’s press releases:
http://serveur.serveur.com/Press_Release/pressreleaseen.htm
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom
Artmarket News:
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom & https://twitter.com/artmarketdotcom
https://www.facebook.com/artpricedotcom 4 million subscribers
http://artmarketinsight.wordpress.com/
Discover the Alchemy and the universe of Artprice http://web.artprice.com/video, which headquarters are the famous Museum of Contemporary Art, the Abode of Chaos: https://issuu.com/demeureduchaos/docs/demeureduchaos-abodeofchaos-opus-ix-1999-2013
The Contemporary Art Museum The Abode of Chaos
https://www.facebook.com/la.demeure.du.chaos.theabodeofchaos999 3.6 million subscribers
Contact: ir@artprice.com
Artprice: the 10 top-selling artworks created after the 2008 financial crisis
Artprice: the 10 top-selling artworks created after the 2008 financial crisis
The year 2008 marked a turning point for the Art Market and for the global economy as a whole. In retrospect, Sotheby’s 15 September 2008 sale Beautiful Inside My Head Forever dedicated to works by Damien Hirst – just hours before the collapse of Lehman Brothers Bank and its repercussions on art sales throughout the world – now looks like the swan song of a different era.
However, as thierry Ehrmann, Founder/CEO of Artprice tells us, “the impact of the financial crisis did not affect artistic creation; the significant changes we have seen since 2008 are essentially due to changes within the internal structure of the Art Market.
The main development is of course the growth of the Chinese market, but we have also seen the growth of Art as a financial investment. Negative or near–zero interest rates, which undermine the value of savings, have increasingly pushed capital towards alternative investments… and Art generates very attractive returns. The large number of artworks created over the last ten years that have already sold in public auctions prove that Contemporary Art represents a sensational market.”
Global Fine Art auction turnover
Global Fine Art auction turnover
[https://imgpublic.artprice.com/img/wp/sites/11/2019/04/auction-turnover.png]
Artprice presents 10 artists who have already marked the secondary market with works created after the 2008 financial crisis.
1. Cui Ruzhuo (b. 1944): The Grand Snowing Mountains (2013)
$39,577,000 – 4 April 2016, Poly Auction, Hong Kong
The Chinese painter Cui Ruzhuo is one of the most successful living artists in the Art Market, on a par with Gerhard Richter and David Hockney. However, unlike the latter two, his best works – those for which demand is the strongest – are his most recent. The result hammered for a mountain-scene panorama measuring over 8 meters wide and 3 meters high – The Grand Snowing Mountains (2013) – illustrates the immense success of this new giant of Chinese painting who remains far too unknown in the West.
2. Jeff Koons (b. 1955): Popeye (2009/11)
$28,165,000 – 14 May 2014, Sotheby’s, New York
A month before his retrospective began at the Whitney Museum (27 June 27 – 19 October 2014), the Prince of Kitsch Jeff Koons saw his Popeye sculpture (2009/11) become the subject of furious bidding at an evening sale at Sotheby’s New York. The sculpture, the first in a series of three, was to be one of the highlights of the Jeff Koons exhibition at the Whitney Museum, and was also shown at the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Bilbao Guggenheim.
3. Mark Grotjahn (b. 1968): Untitled (S III Released to France Face 43.14) (2011)
$16,767,500 – 17 May 2017, Christie’s, New York
Represented by the Gagosian Gallery since 2008, the American painter Mark Grothjahn saw his prices rise gradually until 2017. Then, in the space of just twelve months, his price index shot up 75%… before falling back again the following year. In 2018, another of his large format paintings, Untitled (Black over Red Orange « Mean as a Snake » Face 842) (2010), fetched $7,073,000.
4. Gerhard Richter (b. 1932): Abstraktes Bild (2009)
$9,093,300 – 5 March 2019, Sotheby’s, London
Large abstract paintings by Gerhard Richter are among the most expensive artworks in the world. In February 2015, Abstraktes bild (1986) fetched over $46 million setting a sensational record for Germany’s Art Market leader. The sale of Abstraktes Bild (2009) shows that collectors are increasingly valuing his recent production, which could be as valuable as his earlier works (1965 – 1990) in the long run.
5. Rudolf Stingel (b. 1956): Untitled (2012)
$7,939,000 – 8 March 2018, Phillips London
Rudolf Stingel is also supported Larry Gagosian and has also greatly benefited from the dealer’s international power and standing. In 2015, the Gagosian presented Stingel’s work in Asia for the first time with a series of paintings Untitled (2012) that reproduced wall fragments from his double exhibition at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art and the Whitney Museum in New York in 2007. During those shows, visitors were invited to write inscriptions of all kinds on the walls of the two prestigious museums. Stingel reproduced certain details using electro-formed copper which he subsequently covered with gold.
6. Jin Shangyi (b. 1934): Peony Pavilion (2013)
$7,829,400 – 31 May 2014, China Guardian, Canton
Chinese painter Jin Shangyi is a master oil painter. Known for his portraits (including female nudes in the late 1980s), he is one of the most original Chinese artists of his generation. His work was much in demand in 2013, as shown by the value of his 1999 canvas Monk Painter Kun Can (画 僧 髡 残):
– $2,088,500, 13 May 2007 – China Guardian, Beijing
– $6,326,500, 1 June 2013 – Poly Auction, Beijing
– $4,436,500, 16 June 2018 – China Guardian, Beijing
7. Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929): Pumpkin (TWPOT) (2010)
$6,937,500 – 1 April 2019, Sotheby’s, Hong Kong
She is the most successful female artist on the global Art Market, all periods of creation combined. The 707 works by Yayoi Kusama auctioned around the world in 2018 generated $103 million, covering more than sixty years of artistic creation from the early 1950s to canvases painted in the past 5 years, which are already being resold.
8. Adrian Ghenie (b. 1977): Boogeyman (2010)
$6,354,000 – 5 October 2018, Sotheby’s, London
The youngest artist in this ranking and the figurehead of new European expressionism, the Romanian painter Adrian Ghenie joined the Pace Gallery in 2013 and his work has already been purchased by some of the world’s leading Contemporary Art museums, including the Centre Georges Pompidou. Both tenebrous and colorful, his paintings do not hide the influence of Van Gogh and Francis Bacon, sometimes with quite direct references.
9. George Condo (b. 1957): Nude and forms (2014)
$6,162,500 – 17 May 2018, Christie’s, New York
In 2018, George Condo conquered the world. With more than $55 million in auction turnover between New York (56%), London (30%) and Hong Kong (12%), Condo is one of the top 50 most successful artists of all time. His market is now more active than that of Jasper Johns or Frank Stella.
10. Mark Tansey (b. 1949): Hedge (2011)
$5,653,000 – 14 May 2015, Phillips, New York
Although Mark Tansey’s works rarely appear at auction (a total of just 103 lots over the last 30 years), demand is ever-stronger for his work. Today his market is entirely divided between New York (90%) and London (10%), but he is very likely to be sold in Asia soon.
Copyright ©2019 thierry Ehrmann – www.artprice.com
Try our services (free demo):
https://www.artprice.com/artist/23640/baishi-qi
Subscribe to our services:
https://www.artprice.com/subscription
About Artprice:
Artprice is listed on the Eurolist by Euronext Paris, SRD long only and Euroclear: 7478 – Bloomberg: PRC – Reuters: ARTF.
Founded by thierry Ehrmann (see Who’s who certified Biography ) (c) https://imgpublic.artprice.com/img/wp/sites/11/2019/03/2019-bio-whoswho-thierry-ehrmann.pdf).
Dicover Artprice in video: https://www.artprice.com/video
Artprice is the global leader in art price and art index databanks. It has over 30 million indices and auction results covering more than 700,000 artists. Artprice Images® gives unlimited access to the largest Art Market resource in the world: a library of 126 million images or prints of artworks from the year 1700 to the present day, along with comments by Artprice’s art historians.
Artprice permanently enriches its databanks with information from 6,300 auctioneers and it publishes a constant flow of art market trends for the world’s principal news agencies and approximately 7,200 international press publications.
For its 4,500,000 members, Artprice gives access to the world’s leading Standardised Marketplace for buying and selling art. Artprice is preparing its blockchain for the Art Market. It is BPI-labelled (scientific national French label) Artprice’s Global Art Market Annual Report for 2018 published last March 2019: https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-art-market-in-2018
Artprice is associated with Artron Group the Chinese leader in the Art Market, its solid institutional partner.
About the Artron Group:
“Artron Art Group (Artron), a comprehensive cultural industrial group founded in 1993 by Wan jie, is committed to inheriting, enhancing and spreading art value. Based on abundant art data, Artron provides art industry and art fans with professional service and experience of quality products by integrated application of IT, advanced digital science and innovative crafts and materials.
Having produced more than 60,000 books and auction catalogues, Artron is the world’s largest art book printer with a total print volume of 300 million a year. It has more than 3 million professional members in the arts sector and an average of 15 million daily visits, making it the world’s leading art website.”
Artron’s Web: www.Artron.net
Artprice’s Contemporary Art Market Annual Report for 2018 – free access at:
https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-contemporary-art-market-report-2018
Artprice’s press releases:
http://serveur.serveur.com/Press_Release/pressreleaseen.htm
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom
Artmarket News:
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom & https://twitter.com/artmarketdotcom
https://www.facebook.com/artpricedotcom 4 million subscribers
http://artmarketinsight.wordpress.com/
Discover the Alchemy and the universe of Artprice http://web.artprice.com/video, which headquarters are the famous Museum of Contemporary Art, the Abode of Chaos: https://issuu.com/demeureduchaos/docs/demeureduchaos-abodeofchaos-opus-ix-1999-2013
The Contemporary Art Museum The Abode of Chaos
https://www.facebook.com/la.demeure.du.chaos.theabodeofchaos999 3.6 million subscribers
Contact: ir@artprice.com
Artprice: All segments of the Art Market are gold mines for those who know how to anticipate and wait.
According to thierry Ehrmann, the found and CEO of Artprice.com, “Our clients, with Artprice, can follow artworks from one appearance at auction to another, which give them insight into how collectors anticipate the Art Market and benefit from its long-term general evolution.
When we take a look at the first quarter of 2019, for instance, we see that a large number of Fine Art auction lots have proved the extraordinary profitability of Art as an investment over the last thirty years. Of these the most spectacular was probably David Hockney’s Henry Geldzahler and Christopher Scott (1969), which fetched the quarter’s best result at over $49 million on 6 March 2019 at Christie’s London. In November 1992, the same 2×3 metre canvas had sold for $1 million.”
Paul Signac (1863-1935) Le Port au soleil couchant, Opus 236 (Saint-Tropez) (1892)
Paul Signac (1863-1935)
Le Port au soleil couchant, Opus 236 (Saint-Tropez) (1892)
The price evolution of Paul Signac’s Le Port au soleil couchant proves that the best financial returns are not reserved for Post-War and Contemporary artists.
The seascape’s three appearances at auction show a constant and extremely dynamic appreciation over nearly forty years, for a historical artist whose contribution to the History of Western Art has long been recognised:
– 12 May 1980: $490,000 (Sotheby’s New York)
– 11 May 1993: $1.8 million (Sotheby’s New York)
– 27 February 2019: $26 million (Christie’s London)
Basquiat still leading
The upside on works by Jean-Michel Basquiat has been somewhat less publicized over the first part of 2019… and yet the American prodigy generated three of the ten best gains in the first quarter. On 5 March 2019 at Sotheby’s London, his 1986 canvas Apex (painted two years before his death by drug overdose) reached $10.8 million, multiplying its value by no less than 370 times since its last auction in June 1988 when it sold for just $29,400.
A pencil drawing entitled Soothsayer (1983) proves that Basquiat’s success covers all of his production. Acquired for $32,900 in June 2002, this small work sold for $997,600 on 5 March 2019, representing an average annual return on investment of +22% over the last 17 years.
Similarly, his paper collage Untitled (1987) – sold during the same session at Sotheby’s in London – confirms a very clear trend:
– on 25 March 1993 it fetched $26,700 (Christie’s London)
– on 5 March 2019 it fetched $1,321,000 (Sotheby’s London)
We have seen this kind of price metamorphosis with lots of other artists as well. The Minimalist French artist, Daniel Buren (b. 1938) is today enjoying an extraordinary price ascension that is rewarding all the collectors who anticipated the power of his art a quarter of a century ago.
His canvas Peinture acrylique blanche sur tissu rayé blanc et rouge, purchased $3,500 in 1997 at Libert-Castor in Paris, fetched $357,500 at Phillips in London on 8 March 2019.
Likewise in Asia
Hong Kong’s recent prestige sales in the wake Art Basel Hong Kong generated a number of significant revaluations that benefit Asian collectors. The biggest rise in China during Q1 2019 came from a painting by Fengmian Lin (1900-1991) titled Wisteria. Twenty-seven years ago it sold for $15,000 at Sotheby’s in New York. Since 2 April 2019, it is now worth over $1.3 million.
The return to Hong Kong of great works by Chinese Modern artists, long traded on the Western marketplaces, can have a considerable impact on their value. But the development of the Hong Kong market over the last 30 years also benefits artists who have never left Asia.
Take for example the latest result for an ink drawing by artist Yu Feian (1888-1959) entitled Parrot (1945). Purchased in Hong Kong in 1990 for $11,400, the same drawing resold for 70 times that amount in the same city (Sotheby’s) on 2 April 2019 ($787,000).
Women in vogue
The Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama also, unsurprisingly, ranks among the most impressive price accretions in Q1. Today the most successful female artist on the global Art Market, with an auction turnover exceeding $100 million in 2018 (ahead of Louise Bourgeois and Joan Mitchell), Kusama has not always had this kind of success.
In 2000, the record auction price for one of her paintings was just $80,000, whereas her Interminable Net # 4 (1959) fetched close to $8 million on 1 April at Sotheby’s Hong Kong. In terms of revaluation, her sculpture Midsummer (1983), acquired for just $7,200 at Sotheby’s in London in 2000, resold for $428,000 at the same auctioneer 19 years later.
The prize for the most unexpected price jump in Q1 2019 must surely go to 17th century Flemish artist Michaelina Wautier. Long forgotten by art historians, Wautier was ‘rediscovered’ in 2018 with a first retrospective organized at the Museum aan de Stroom and at the Rubens House in Antwerp.
The renewed attention had a profound impact on the prices of her works and her canvas A garland of flowers (1652) reached $471,000 on 30 January 2019 at Sotheby’s in New York. In 1993, the strange bouquet with a hovering dragonfly sold for just $20,000.
As Q1’s global auction results show, the best financial performances come from all segments of the Art Market, and not just from its high-end or from Contemporary Art or from the American market…
Copyright ©2019 thierry Ehrmann – www.artprice.com
Try our services (free demo):
https://www.artprice.com/artist/23640/baishi-qi
Subscribe to our services:
https://www.artprice.com/subscription
About Artprice:
Artprice is listed on the Eurolist by Euronext Paris, SRD long only and Euroclear: 7478 – Bloomberg: PRC – Reuters: ARTF.
Founded by thierry Ehrmann (see Who’s who certified Biography ) (c) https://imgpublic.artprice.com/img/wp/sites/11/2019/03/2019-bio-whoswho-thierry-ehrmann.pdf).
Dicover Artprice in video: https://www.artprice.com/video
Artprice is the global leader in art price and art index databanks. It has over 30 million indices and auction results covering more than 700,000 artists. Artprice Images® gives unlimited access to the largest Art Market resource in the world: a library of 126 million images or prints of artworks from the year 1700 to the present day, along with comments by Artprice’s art historians.
Artprice permanently enriches its databanks with information from 6,300 auctioneers and it publishes a constant flow of art market trends for the world’s principal news agencies and approximately 7,200 international press publications.
For its 4,500,000 members, Artprice gives access to the world’s leading Standardised Marketplace for buying and selling art. Artprice is preparing its blockchain for the Art Market. It is BPI-labelled (scientific national French label) Artprice’s Global Art Market Annual Report for 2018 published last March 2019: https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-art-market-in-2018
Artprice is associated with Artron Group the Chinese leader in the Art Market, its solid institutional partner.
About the Artron Group:
“Artron Art Group (Artron), a comprehensive cultural industrial group founded in 1993 by Wan jie, is committed to inheriting, enhancing and spreading art value. Based on abundant art data, Artron provides art industry and art fans with professional service and experience of quality products by integrated application of IT, advanced digital science and innovative crafts and materials.
Having produced more than 60,000 books and auction catalogues, Artron is the world’s largest art book printer with a total print volume of 300 million a year. It has more than 3 million professional members in the arts sector and an average of 15 million daily visits, making it the world’s leading art website.”
Artron’s Web: www.Artron.net
Artprice’s Contemporary Art Market Annual Report for 2018 – free access at:
https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-contemporary-art-market-report-2018
Artprice’s press releases:
http://serveur.serveur.com/Press_Release/pressreleaseen.htm
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom
Artmarket News:
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom & https://twitter.com/artmarketdotcom
https://www.facebook.com/artpricedotcom 4 million subscribers
http://artmarketinsight.wordpress.com/
Discover the Alchemy and the universe of Artprice http://web.artprice.com/video, which headquarters are the famous Museum of Contemporary Art, the Abode of Chaos: https://issuu.com/demeureduchaos/docs/demeureduchaos-abodeofchaos-opus-ix-1999-2013
The Contemporary Art Museum The Abode of Chaos
https://www.facebook.com/la.demeure.du.chaos.theabodeofchaos999 3.6 million subscribers
Contact: ir@artprice.com
Artprice: The Art Market confirms Robert Combas as one of France’s major living artists
Over the past two years the value of Robert Combas’ paintings (1957) has risen 40%. His large acrylics, especially those created in the late 1980s, now regularly fetch above $100,000 at auctions.
thierry Ehrmann: “With his market looking particularly dynamic, Robert Combas is today the second most sought-after living French artist after Pierre Soulages. Although his paintings still fetch much less than those of France’s grand master of abstraction, his latest auction results suggest a rapid growth in demand and an expansion of his market as far as Asia”.
In June 2017, the Chinese auction house Ravenel set a new auction record for Combas in Taiwan when his The Sun King (1987) sold for $214,500 (including fees). A year later, on 4 April 2018, La Prise de la Bastille (c.1989) and La bagarre de Zozo (1986) were each sold for $220,000 in Paris.
Boosted by these successive auction records, the enfant terrible of the Figuration Libre movement has proved he is still the best representative of French painting on the Contemporary Art Market.
As thierry Ehrmann puts it: “Combas is a one of our giants… he already has more than 5,000 auction results to his name”.
Artprice Indicator: Value of The Sun King (1987) from 2000 to 2019
Artprice Indicator: Value of The Sun King (1987) from 2000 to 2019 © Artprice.com
2018 was an excellent year for Robert Combas: 184 works were sold generating a total of $4.75 million. The market is trading more than forty years of artistic creation from his first canvases dated 1979 (the year he left art school in Saint-Etienne) to his most recent works.
However, the strongest demand focuses on works he produced from 1985 to 1995. Encouraged by rising prices, more and more collectors are selling major works they have sometimes kept for more than 20 years generating a virtuous market circle as Combas gains additional visibility.
The results speak for themselves: 8 of his top 10 auction results have been hammered since 2017.
Top 10 Best Auction Results for Robert Combas
© Artprice.com
Ranking – Work – Price – Sale (date and place)
1. La bagarre de Zozo (1986) – $220 350 – 04/04/2018, Artcurial, Paris
2. La prise de la Bastille (c. 1989) – $219 200 – 04/04/2018, Desbenoit, Paris
3. Le Roi Soleil (1987) – $212 500 – 03/06/2017, Ravenel, Taïwan
4. Il suffit de passer le pont (1992) – $212 400 – 19/03/2019, Sotheby’s Paris
5. Louis XIV (1985) – $207 700 – 28/03/2013, Cornette de Saint Cyr, Paris
6. Le chien à cinq pattes (1987) – $190 500 – 05/06/2018, Artcurial, Paris
7. La charrette des Condamnés (c. 1979) – $190 000 – 04/06/2018, Desbenoit, Paris
8. La gitane amoureuse (1988) – $184 500 – 03/12/2018, Artcurial, Paris
9. Les 4 peluches de l’Ave Maria (1987) – $176 500 – 04/04/2012, Artcurial, Paris
10. Nolon (1987) – $169 500 – 06/12/2017 – Sotheby’s, Paris
With France accounting for 87% of his lots sold, the core of Combas’ market remains French. However, his works are now selling well beyond France and Belgium, having already reached England and even Asia. The American market has so far resisted his prolific painting practice which is reminiscent of Keith Haring’s.
Robert Combas’ paintings now sell for somewhere between $15,000 and $200,000, depending on the size of the work, its subject, its provenance, etc. However, many of his works on paper are still accessible for less than $10,000, while his prints and his three-dimensional multiples usually change hands for between $1,000 and $5,000.
In the fall of 2018, the Parisian gallery Laurent Strouk presented his most recent works, created during the previous summer in Sète, a town on France’s Mediterranean coast where Combas lived as a child.
The exhibition entitled Le Théâtre de la Mer showed his latest paintings, but also his latest sculptures, as well as some pieces of furniture (chairs, lamps, rugs). Indeed, Robert Combas has never limited his creativity to any particular medium and has always given free rein to his inspiration… including T-shirts, trousers, guitars and a variety of other formats.
As his latest auction results show, Robert Combas is enjoying a new international visibility. Most of his production is still affordable, but that could soon change. His prices have shown strong long-term growth, +500% since 2000, that has accelerated over the last 24 months.
Copyright ©2019 thierry Ehrmann – www.artprice.com
Try our services (free demo):
https://www.artprice.com/artist/23640/baishi-qi
Subscribe to our services:
https://www.artprice.com/subscription
About Artprice:
Artprice is listed on the Eurolist by Euronext Paris, SRD long only and Euroclear: 7478 – Bloomberg: PRC – Reuters: ARTF.
Founded by thierry Ehrmann (see Who’s who certified Biography ) (c) https://imgpublic.artprice.com/img/wp/sites/11/2019/03/2019-bio-whoswho-thierry-ehrmann.pdf).
Dicover Artprice in video: https://www.artprice.com/video
Artprice is the global leader in art price and art index databanks. It has over 30 million indices and auction results covering more than 700,000 artists. Artprice Images® gives unlimited access to the largest Art Market resource in the world: a library of 126 million images or prints of artworks from the year 1700 to the present day, along with comments by Artprice’s art historians.
Artprice permanently enriches its databanks with information from 6,300 auctioneers and it publishes a constant flow of art market trends for the world’s principal news agencies and approximately 7,200 international press publications.
For its 4,500,000 members, Artprice gives access to the world’s leading Standardised Marketplace for buying and selling art. Artprice is preparing its blockchain for the Art Market. It is BPI-labelled (scientific national French label) Artprice’s Global Art Market Annual Report for 2018 published last March 2019: https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-art-market-in-2018
Artprice is associated with Artron Group the Chinese leader in the Art Market, its solid institutional partner.
About the Artron Group:
“Artron Art Group (Artron), a comprehensive cultural industrial group founded in 1993 by Wan jie, is committed to inheriting, enhancing and spreading art value. Based on abundant art data, Artron provides art industry and art fans with professional service and experience of quality products by integrated application of IT, advanced digital science and innovative crafts and materials.
Having produced more than 60,000 books and auction catalogues, Artron is the world’s largest art book printer with a total print volume of 300 million a year. It has more than 3 million professional members in the arts sector and an average of 15 million daily visits, making it the world’s leading art website.”
Artron’s Web: www.Artron.net
Artprice’s Contemporary Art Market Annual Report for 2018 – free access at:
https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-contemporary-art-market-report-2018
Artprice’s press releases:
http://serveur.serveur.com/Press_Release/pressreleaseen.htm
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom
Artmarket News:
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom & https://twitter.com/artmarketdotcom
https://www.facebook.com/artpricedotcom 4 million subscribers
http://artmarketinsight.wordpress.com/
Discover the Alchemy and the universe of Artprice http://web.artprice.com/video, which headquarters are the famous Museum of Contemporary Art, the Abode of Chaos: https://issuu.com/demeureduchaos/docs/demeureduchaos-abodeofchaos-opus-ix-1999-2013
The Contemporary Art Museum The Abode of Chaos
https://www.facebook.com/la.demeure.du.chaos.theabodeofchaos999 3.6 million subscribers
Contact: ir@artprice.com
Artprice: Top 50 artworks sold at auction in 2018
Artprice and its CEO thierry Ehrmann are proud to present the 50 greatest artworks sold at auction last year. In the first half, Modern Art returned to ‘auction leader’ position with two results above the $100 million threshold.
The Art Market’s principal motivation has always been to seek the exceptional and the rare. The quest for strong sensations is an inherent characteristic of its history and its market: by acquiring an artwork, the collector also acquires an extraordinary history.
Collectors are naturally on the lookout for the right work by the right artist at the right time and at the right price, but they are also looking for a story that they relates to. In spite of these ‘search criteria’, the Art Market posts a global average 30% to 35% unsold rate, a key indicator of the Market’s health.
The inescapable processes of selection – indispensable to the Market’s refinement – are at the heart of the Museum Industry, the growth of which represents a genuine revolution in Art History.
Museums have in effect become the Temples of our 21st century: the number of visitors has multiplied by at least ten over the last 20 years. This represents an outstanding growth rate and it has been accompanied by the development of an entertainment market offering all manner of interactivity, derivatives, virtual visits, etc.
In sum, with the museums, the galleries and the auction houses, art has become a vast domain for leisure, discovery, education and curiosity.
[https://imgpublic.artprice.com/img/wp/sites/11/2019/03/van-gogh-vue-de-l-asile.jpeg]
Vincent VAN GOGH
Vue de l’asile et de la Chapelle St-Paul de Mausole (1889)
Copyright ©2019 thierry Ehrmann – www.artprice.com
Try our services (free demo):
https://www.artprice.com/artist/23640/baishi-qi
Subscribe to our services:
https://www.artprice.com/subscription
About Artprice:
Artprice is listed on the Eurolist by Euronext Paris, SRD long only and Euroclear: 7478 – Bloomberg: PRC – Reuters: ARTF.
Founded by thierry Ehrmann (see Who’s who certified Biography ) (c) https://imgpublic.artprice.com/img/wp/sites/11/2019/03/2019-bio-whoswho-thierry-ehrmann.pdf).
Dicover Artprice in video: https://www.artprice.com/video
Artprice is the global leader in art price and art index databanks. It has over 30 million indices and auction results covering more than 700,000 artists. Artprice Images® gives unlimited access to the largest Art Market resource in the world: a library of 126 million images or prints of artworks from the year 1700 to the present day, along with comments by Artprice’s art historians.
Artprice permanently enriches its databanks with information from 6,300 auctioneers and it publishes a constant flow of art market trends for the world’s principal news agencies and approximately 7,200 international press publications.
For its 4,500,000 members, Artprice gives access to the world’s leading Standardised Marketplace for buying and selling art. Artprice is preparing its blockchain for the Art Market. It is BPI-labelled (scientific national French label) Artprice’s Global Art Market Annual Report for 2018 published last March 2019: https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-art-market-in-2018
Artprice is associated with Artron Group the Chinese leader in the Art Market, its solid institutional partner.
About the Artron Group:
“Artron Art Group (Artron), a comprehensive cultural industrial group founded in 1993 by Wan jie, is committed to inheriting, enhancing and spreading art value. Based on abundant art data, Artron provides art industry and art fans with professional service and experience of quality products by integrated application of IT, advanced digital science and innovative crafts and materials.
Having produced more than 60,000 books and auction catalogues, Artron is the world’s largest art book printer with a total print volume of 300 million a year. It has more than 3 million professional members in the arts sector and an average of 15 million daily visits, making it the world’s leading art website.”
Artron’s Web: www.Artron.net
Artprice’s Contemporary Art Market Annual Report for 2018 – free access at:
https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-contemporary-art-market-report-2018
Artprice’s press releases:
http://serveur.serveur.com/Press_Release/pressreleaseen.htm
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom
Artmarket News:
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom & https://twitter.com/artmarketdotcom
https://www.facebook.com/artpricedotcom 3.9 million subscribers
http://artmarketinsight.wordpress.com/
Discover the Alchemy and the universe of Artprice http://web.artprice.com/video, which headquarters are the famous Museum of Contemporary Art, the Abode of Chaos: https://issuu.com/demeureduchaos/docs/demeureduchaos-abodeofchaos-opus-ix-1999-2013
The Contemporary Art Museum The Abode of Chaos
https://www.facebook.com/la.demeure.du.chaos.theabodeofchaos999 3.6 million subscribers
Contact: ir@artprice.com
ARTPRICE – The Museum Industry®: Exhibiting Art in the 21st Century
ARTPRICE – The Museum Industry®: Exhibiting Art in the 21st Century
With the prices of masterpieces now exceeding the purchasing budgets of the largestpublic museums, the latter are being forced to find new ways to pursue their development.Competing against corporate foundations and private collectors with much deeper pocketsand a much greater flexibility of action, State institutions have to pursue long-term projectsthat are less reactive to market trends.
Artprice’s CEO /founder thierry Ehrmann recalls: “the world saw more museums builtbetween 1 January 2000 and 31 December 2014 than during the entire 19th and 20thcenturies. Indeed, every year sees the opening of around 700 new world-class museumson five different continents, each with a minimum of 4,500 artworks.The ‘Soft Power’ ambitions of the major powers (particularly China and the United States) are an essential geopolitical driver of this Museum Industry® growth and represent a fundamental elementin Artprice’s conceptualisation of today’s Art Market”.
Continuing to buy…
With a basic acquisitions budget of less than $20 million a year, lots of historical pieces are
simply beyond the reach of the Louvre Museum (the world’s largest museum by visitor
numbers). Fortunately, the Louvre receives occasional one-off donations. In 2016, France
and the Netherlands agreed to jointly acquire two Rembrandt portraits from the French
Rothschild collection. Each State contributed €80 million to acquire one of these two
paintings, which will be shown alternatively at the Louvre and the Rijksmuseum, but
always together.
Rembrandt van Rijn
Portrait of Oopjen Coppit, 1634
Portrait of Marten Soolmans, 1634
Nowadays that type of solution is very exceptional indeed because in the vast majority of
cases the major museums are no match for the billionaires. However, by implementing a
variety of legal mechanisms (loans, donations, gifts) certain States have managed to enlist
their highly valuable support.
In July 2002, Massacre of the Innocents (c. 1610), a painting freshly re-attributed to Peter
Paul Rubens, generated the art world’s third best-ever auction result (at the time) at
Sotheby’s in London. Canadian businessman Kenneth Thomson paid $69.7 million to
acquire the work, which he then lent to the National Gallery in London before donating it to
the Art Gallery of Ontario, an acquisition that the Canadian museum could not have made
on its own.
Contemporary Art already too expensive
In 2017, the 40-year-old Japanese businessman Yusaku Maezawa paid $110.5 million at
Christie’s in New York for Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Untitled (1982). Two years earlier, the
same collector purchased another major canvas by the New York graffiti artist for $57
million. Both works will soon be exhibited, along with the rest of Maezawa’s collection, in
his own Contemporary Art Museum located on the outskirts of Tokyo (Chiba).
While waiting for his museum to open, the young collector lent the $110.5 million painting to the
Brooklyn Museum for the exhibition « One Basquiat » (January – March 2018). The show
received an unexpectedly high number of visitors, attributable, in part at least, to the
presence of this work, having suddenly become Jean-Michel Basquiat’s most famous
work.
In an interview with the New York Times in May 2017, Ann Temkin, chief curator of the
MoMA’s painting and sculpture section, regretted that her museum did not acquire works
by Jean-Michel Basquiat in time. Twenty years after the artist’s death, the prestigious New
York institution does not possess a single work by Basquiat and his prices are now so high
that it cannot hope to acquire one directly.
Private collectors regularly lend their works, but there can be no doubt that the MoMA is waiting for a definitive donation. Several works on paper have already been promised by the collector Sheldon H. Solow and made available to the museum.
Basquiat is the most striking example of a Contemporary artist whose prices climbed far
too quickly. But many other Contemporary artists are experiencing a similar situation.
These include Peter Doig, Richard Prince, Christopher Wool, and more recently George
Condo and Rudolf Stingel.
From private collection to museum
The major European institutions (the Louvre, the Prado, the British Museum, etc.) were
established in the late-18th and early-19th centuries around important private collections,
often royal collections in fact. For over two centuries, in response to the growing
importance of ‘culture’ in society, States tried to enrich their collections by acquiring
artworks at roughly the same pace as the development of artistic creation.
At the same time, major private collections were built up by powerful industrialists and bankers like the Rothschilds and Rockefellers. Some of these collections have found a place in major
museums like the Robert Lehman collection at the Metropolitan Museum.
As of the 21st century, private museums have multiplied in number exponentially. To a
certain extent, their success has been driven by media coverage of the Art Market. NewYork’s Neue Gallery, which opened in 2001, received international publicity with the
acquisition in 2006 of Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I for $135 million, an
all-time record for Art Market (at the time).
The growth of the Art Market has intensified competition between major museums and
collectors. The latter build more personal and sometimes more coherent collections when
it comes to Contemporary art. In the United States, these collections have spawned some
of the most prestigious Art Centers in the country: The Rubell Family Collection (Miami),
The Broad Museum (Los Angeles), The Hill Art Foundation (New York).
In Europe, corporate foundations and private collections have also become part of the
cultural landscape. France, particularly, is home to lots of major private institutions like the
Maeght Foundation in Saint-Paul de Vence, the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris and
outlets for ‘new’ art in enchanting places such as the Carmignac Foundation on the island
of Porquerolles.
The strength of Asian collectors
Asian collectors also have all the necessary qualities to participate in this new model: an
immense appetite for Art and its History, tremendous financial capacity and, above all, the
desire to share their collections with the general public. In Japan, the Mori Art Museum,
created by the promoter Minoru Mori, has established itself as a veritable temple of
Contemporary Art.
In China, billionaire Liu Yiqian is actively working to build one of Asia’s finest collections.
His museum – the Long Museum in Shanghai – combines traditional and Contemporary
Chinese art, as well as historical Western artworks. On 9 November 2015 he acquired
Amedeo Modigliani’s Reclining Nude (1917-18) at Christie’s in New York for $170 million.
In fact, Liu Yiqian is so wealthy he apparently bought the painting cash… with his
American Express card.
Copyright ©2019 thierry Ehrmann – www.artprice.com
Try our services (free demo):
https://www.artprice.com/artist/23640/baishi-qi
Subscribe to our services:
https://www.artprice.com/subscription
About Artprice:
Artprice is listed on the Eurolist by Euronext Paris, SRD long only and Euroclear: 7478 – Bloomberg: PRC – Reuters: ARTF.
Founded by thierry Ehrmann (see Who’s who certified Biography ) (c) https://imgpublic.artprice.com/img/wp/sites/11/2018/10/bio-2019-whos-who-thierry-ehrmann.pdf ).
Dicover Artprice in video: https://www.artprice.com/video
Artprice is the global leader in art price and art index databanks. It has over 30 million indices and auction results covering more than 700,000 artists. Artprice Images® gives unlimited access to the largest Art Market resource in the world: a library of 126 million images or prints of artworks from the year 1700 to the present day, along with comments by Artprice’s art historians.
Artprice permanently enriches its databanks with information from 6,300 auctioneers and it publishes a constant flow of art market trends for the world’s principal news agencies and approximately 7,200 international press publications.
For its 4,500,000 members, Artprice gives access to the world’s leading Standardised Marketplace for buying and selling art. Artprice is preparing its blockchain for the Art Market. It is BPI-labelled (scientific national French label) Artprice’s Global Art Market Annual Report for 2017 published last March 2018: https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-art-market-in-2017
Artprice is associated with Artron Group the Chinese leader in the Art Market, its solid institutional partner.
About the Artron Group:
“Artron Art Group (Artron), a comprehensive cultural industrial group founded in 1993 by Wan jie, is committed to inheriting, enhancing and spreading art value. Based on abundant art data, Artron provides art industry and art fans with professional service and experience of quality products by integrated application of IT, advanced digital science and innovative crafts and materials.
Having produced more than 60,000 books and auction catalogues, Artron is the world’s largest art book printer with a total print volume of 300 million a year. It has more than 3 million professional members in the arts sector and an average of 15 million daily visits, making it the world’s leading art website.”
Artron’s Web: www.Artron.net
Artprice’s Contemporary Art Market Annual Report for 2017 – free access at: https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-contemporary-art-market-report-2017
Artprice’s press releases:
http://serveur.serveur.com/Press_Release/pressreleaseen.htm
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom
Artmarket News:
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom & https://twitter.com/artmarketdotcom
https://www.facebook.com/artpricedotcom 3.8 million subscribers
http://artmarketinsight.wordpress.com/
Discover the Alchemy and the universe of Artprice http://web.artprice.com/video, which headquarters are the famous Museum of Contemporary Art, the Abode of Chaos:
The Contemporary Art Museum The Abode of Chaos
https://www.facebook.com/la.demeure.du.chaos.theabodeofchaos999
3.5 million subscribers
Contact: ir@artprice.com
Artprice (from London): The « Toulouse Caravaggio” on show in London
“If I could have chosen to discover just one work among all those that have been lost in history… I would have chosen this one, without hesitation”. Such is the conviction and fascination of art expert Eric Turquin for the painting known as the “Toulouse Caravaggio” he has been entrusted to sell by auctioneer Marc Labarbe.
thierry Ehrmann: “After five years of research, analysis and polemics, the two men have announced that the owners are happy to let the Art Market decide the value of this exceptional and extraordinarily powerful work for which the French State has finally granted an export visa”.
Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio (1571-1610)
Judith and Holofernes (c.1604 – 1605)
<VIDEO>
[http://serveur.serveur.com/Press_Release/video/caravage-london.mov]
This Thursday 28 February at the Colnaghi Gallery in London, against the backdrop of London first prestige sales of the year, Eric Turquin and Marc Labarbe confirmed at a press conference that the Judith and Holofernes painting will be auctioned on 27 June 2019.
However the location of its sale is the biggest surprise… not London, not New York, not even in Paris… but rather where it all began… in the south-west of France where it was found, by chance, in the attic of a house near Toulouse, in 2014. Moreover, the painting’s owners have re-confirmed that the Toulouse auctioneer they originally contacted – Marc Labarbe, who first recognized the exceptional qualities of the work – will be responsible for orchestrating the sale of this extraordinary painting.
The stakes are high indeed… not only for all art lovers around the world who enjoy a good story and the thrill of market surprises, but also and particularly for the French Art Market. Thirty years after the historic Parisian sale of Pablo Picasso’s Noces de Pierrette (1905), an auction organized on French soil could once again rock the global Art Market.
A museum-quality work
As revealed by Artprice in January, the sellers have opted for an extremely original sales strategy via which they hope to elicit the kind of interest required to sell such a masterpiece.
The work is indeed exceptional in many respects. Its subject (a biblical decapitation), its age (more than 400 years old), its discovery (in an attic in the South of France) and especially its attribution to Caravaggio and the piercing power of Judith’s look, all give this painting a very special place in History and on the Art Market.
Only 68 works by Caravaggio are known to date, scattered throughout the Western world. Many have remained in Italy, hanging in the most beautiful churches of Rome, Naples and Sicily, while the others contribute to the notoriety of some of the world’s most prestigious European and American institutions: London’s National Gallery, New York’s Metropolitan Museum and the Paris Louvre each have three, while Madrid’s Prado and Saint Petersburg’s Hermitage each have a single painting by Caravaggio.
Acquiring this latest discovery probably appeals to all of the world’s major museums. However, few of them can afford it. The current estimate for the work is somewhere between between €100 and €150 million; but, the annual acquisition budget of the Louvre Museum (the world’s leading museum by visitor number) is still under €20 million. Likewise, lots of Japanese, English and Russian museums – who would love to own this newly discovered masterpiece – are unlikely to be in the running to acquire it.
Unless a State decides to make an exceptional grant, public museums will have to give way to major private collectors. In recent years Western, Asian and Middle Eastern billionaires have snapped up all the best works auctioned. Their immense financial power seems limitless when it comes to investing in the last remaining jewels of Art History in circulation.
Auction results above $100 million
© Arptrice.com
Artist Artwork Price Sale Auction House
- Leonardo DA VINCI (1452-1519) Salvator Mundi (c.1500)
$450,312,500 15/Nov/2017 Christie’s – New York - Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973) Les femmes d’Alger (Version ‘O’) (1955)
$179,365,000 11/May/2015 Christie’s – New York - Amedeo MODIGLIANI (1884-1920) Nu couché (1917-18)
$170,405,000 09/Nov/2015 Christie’s – New York - Amedeo MODIGLIANI (1884-1920) Nu couché (sur le côté gauche) (1917)
$157,159,000 14/May/2018 Sotheby’s – New York - Francis BACON (1909-1992) Three Studies of Lucian Freud (1969)
$142,405,000 12/Nov/2013 Christie’s – New York - Alberto GIACOMETTI (1901-1966) L’homme au doigt (1947)
$141,285,000 11/May/2015 Christie’s – New York - QI Baishi (1864-1957) Screens of landscapes (1925)
$140,954,580 17/Dec/2017 Poly – Beijing - Edvard MUNCH (1863-1944) The scream (1895)
$119,922,500 02/May/2012 Sotheby’s – New York - Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973) Fillette la corbeille fleurie (1905)
$115,000,000 08/May/2018 Christie’s – New York - Jean-Michel BASQUIAT (1960-1988) Untitled (1982)
$110,487,500 18/May/2017 Sotheby’s – New York - Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973) Nude, Green Leaves and Bust (1932)
$106,482,500 04/May/2010 Christie’s – New York - Andy WARHOL (1928-1987) Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster) (1963)
$105,445,000 13/Nov/2013 Sotheby’s – New York - Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973) Garçon à la pipe (1905)
$104,168,000 05/May/2004 Sotheby’s – New York - Alberto GIACOMETTI (1901-1966) L’homme qui marche I (1960)
$103,689,994 03/Feb/2010 Sotheby’s – London - Alberto GIACOMETTI (1901-1966) Chariot (1950)
$100,965,000 04/Nov/2014 Sotheby’s – New York
To date, only fifteen works have publicly sold above the $100 million threshold. All of these were hammered in the three major capitals of the Art Market, organised by the three most powerful auction houses on the planet. However, today, with globalisation having so radically changed the global art market, this operating system could well be completely obsolete.
Having remained locked up Eric Turquin’s Paris offices for many years, the Toulouse Caravaggio has finally received its export visa and has began a world tour. Currently in London, the work will then be taken to New York to steal the spotlight during the prestige sales in May, before returning to Toulouse to be put on sale.
According to Artprice’s CEO / Founder, thierry Ehrmann, “when everyone has seen Judith decapitating Holofernes and has experienced the extraordinary power of this painting, the location of the sale will not matter much. Whether sold in Toulouse or New York, Caravaggio will go to the highest bidder. In any case, the painting will certainly not remain in Toulouse, nor in France.
The work’s owners want an ‘authentic’ sale, giving the Market the final word… without trying to control it. It’s a way of doing things that we have almost forgotten, and yet it is the veritable purpose of public sales. This confidence in the market can only be rewarded.”
Copyright ©2019 thierry Ehrmann – www.artprice.com
Try our services (free demo):
https://www.artprice.com/artist/23640/baishi-qi
Subscribe to our services:
https://www.artprice.com/subscription
About Artprice:
Artprice is listed on the Eurolist by Euronext Paris, SRD long only and Euroclear: 7478 – Bloomberg: PRC – Reuters: ARTF.
Founded by thierry Ehrmann (see Who’s who certified Biography ) (c) https://imgpublic.artprice.com/img/wp/sites/11/2018/10/bio-2019-whos-who-thierry-ehrmann.pdf ).
Dicover Artprice in video: https://www.artprice.com/video
Artprice is the global leader in art price and art index databanks. It has over 30 million indices and auction results covering more than 700,000 artists. Artprice Images® gives unlimited access to the largest Art Market resource in the world: a library of 126 million images or prints of artworks from the year 1700 to the present day, along with comments by Artprice’s art historians.
Artprice permanently enriches its databanks with information from 6,300 auctioneers and it publishes a constant flow of art market trends for the world’s principal news agencies and approximately 7,200 international press publications.
For its 4,500,000 members, Artprice gives access to the world’s leading Standardised Marketplace for buying and selling art. Artprice is preparing its blockchain for the Art Market. It is BPI-labelled (scientific national French label) Artprice’s Global Art Market Annual Report for 2017 published last March 2018: https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-art-market-in-2017
Artprice is associated with Artron Group the Chinese leader in the Art Market, its solid institutional partner.
About the Artron Group:
“Artron Art Group (Artron), a comprehensive cultural industrial group founded in 1993 by Wan jie, is committed to inheriting, enhancing and spreading art value. Based on abundant art data, Artron provides art industry and art fans with professional service and experience of quality products by integrated application of IT, advanced digital science and innovative crafts and materials.
Having produced more than 60,000 books and auction catalogues, Artron is the world’s largest art book printer with a total print volume of 300 million a year. It has more than 3 million professional members in the arts sector and an average of 15 million daily visits, making it the world’s leading art website.”
Artron’s Web: www.Artron.net
Artprice’s Contemporary Art Market Annual Report for 2017 – free access at: https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-contemporary-art-market-report-2017
Artprice’s press releases:
http://serveur.serveur.com/Press_Release/pressreleaseen.htm
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom
Artmarket News:
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom & https://twitter.com/artmarketdotcom
https://www.facebook.com/artpricedotcom 3.8 million subscribers
http://artmarketinsight.wordpress.com/
Discover the Alchemy and the universe of Artprice http://web.artprice.com/video, which headquarters are the famous Museum of Contemporary Art, the Abode of Chaos:
The Contemporary Art Museum The Abode of Chaos
https://www.facebook.com/la.demeure.du.chaos.theabodeofchaos999
3.5 million subscribers
Contact: ir@artprice.com
Artprice: the Top 10 of Surrealism
Artprice: the Top 10 of Surrealism
Artprice posts an auction ranking to help you apprehend the Art Market’s leading trends. This week, Artprice takes a look at the 10 most expensive Surrealist artworks ever sold at auction… A ranking very clearly dominated by Miro.
Thierry Ehrmann: “The Catalan Surrealist artist Joan Miro, the subject of a major retrospective at the Grand Palais in Paris (ended February 4, 2019), is also very clearly the leading Surrealist artist on the auction market with seven out of the Top-10 results. The other three places are currently occupied by René Magritte and Salvador Dali”. Awaiting the next Surrealist Auction next week in London (read further).
The Top 10 of Surrealism by artprice.com
|
Rank |
Artist |
Hammer Price ($) |
Artwork |
Sale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
1 |
36,955,821 |
19/jun/2012 Sotheby’s London |
||
|
2 |
31,461,029 |
21/jun/2017 Sotheby’s London |
||
|
3 |
26,830,500 |
12/nov/2018 Sotheby’s New York |
||
|
4 |
26,590,650 |
07/feb/2012 Christie’s London |
||
|
5 |
23,413,412 |
04/feb/2015 Christie’s London |
||
|
6 |
23,375,000 |
13/nov/2017 Christie’s New York |
||
|
7 |
22,590,000 |
15/nov/2018 Phillips New York |
||
|
8 |
21,687,500 |
15/may/2018 Christie’s New York |
||
|
9 |
21,673,806 |
10/feb/2011 Sotheby’s London |
||
|
10 |
20,562,500 |
13/11/2017 Christie’s New York |
||
|
Copyright © 2019 artprice.com |
||||
André BRETON, Portrait by thierry Ehrmann , courtesy of Demeure du Chaos/Abode of Chaos, HQ Artprice.
As thierry Ehrmann recalls, André Breton (then a medical student), father of surrealism, declared: « Madness is the first material of Surrealism ».
Miro, the most sought-after Surrealist
Miro is undoubtedly one of the leading artists on the Western Art Market, first because his unbridled imagination made him one of the most interesting artists of the Surrealist scene, “the most Surreal of us all » according to André Breton, and secondly, because he was particularly prolific: among the approximately one thousand Miro works that change hands at auction each year, there are always a couple of treasures that deserve a place in the world’s top museums.
In concrete terms, Joan Miro is known to have produced at least 2,000 paintings, 5,000 drawings, 500 sculptures, a few hundred ceramics and a large quantity of prints which represent 91% of his lots sold at auction every year. The prices of his canvases are extremely variable, depending on the historical and artistic importance of the work. Among the 17 Miro paintings sold so far this year, some smaller works (roughly 30 cm) have fetched around $250,000 whereas others with similar dimensions have fetched well over a million dollars.
A good quality work by Miro will fetch a high price… but when quality combines with size… the prices rocket. His best works sell for over $20 million, a threshold crossed eight times so far with a notable acceleration in the last 12 months. Indeed four of those results above the $20 million line have been hammered in the last year for Peinture (1933), Femme dans la nuit (1945) and Femme entendant de la musique (1945), all three in this Top 10, as well as for Mural I / Mural II / Mural III (1933) which fetched $ 20 million last May at Christie’s in New York.
His turnover total for the year 2018 is therefore outstanding (so far $ 107.6 million since January) placing him among the world’s most successful artists. In our provisional ranking for 2018 Miro currently occupies 13th place. Considered universal, his work has appealed to Western and Japanese collectors, but it has not yet penetrated the world’s largest marketplace… China.
Magritte, two new records in 12 months
Magritte’s double appearance in this ranking is all the more remarkable because his two latest records were hammered in the past 12 months. The first in November 2017, for a painting from his emblematic series L’Empire des Lumières. It’s interesting to trace the series’ price history: in 1996, a major canvas from this famous series reached $3.5 million in London. In 2002, another, dated 1952, fetched $12.6 million in New York. That was a new peak for a Surrealist artist at the time.
In 2017, that peak was almost doubled when The empire of lights (1949) sold for $20.5 million in New York. That record, coming just after two other new records during the same year 2017, marked the most successful year in the Belgian Surrealist’s auction history, with an annual turnover of $77.8 million. The strong demand was almost certainly fanned by ‘cultural news’, particularly by the exhibition La trahison des images at the Pompidou Center in Paris and the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (2016-2017).
The effervescence has continued this year. In February, Magritte elicited the highest bid during London’s Surrealist sales (Christie’s and Sotheby’s) ahead of Miro, with a pioneering 1926 work Le groupe silencieux that fetched $10 million. Then, on 12 November, Sotheby’s set a superb new record for the artist at $26.8 million.
The most expensive Magritte ever sold, the work bears the poetic and enigmatic title Le principe du plaisir and is a portrait of Edward James, an English heir to an American railroad fortune turned eccentric poet and influential patron of Surrealist art who invited Magritte to reside and paint in his London residence for two years.
Le principe du plaisir exceeded its low estimate by more than $10 million. The painting was acquired by the seller 40 years earlier for just $74,000.
Surrealist love…
The third Surrealist in this ranking is none other than the great Salvador Dali with a work whose price might seem excessive compared to its modest size: 33 x 25 centimeters. The Portrait of Paul Eluard is a small oil-on-cardboard whose price went from $2 million in 1989 (Christie’s New York) to $21 million in 2011 at Sotheby’s (against an estimate of just $5-8 million!).
The price of this work therefore multiplied by 10 in twenty years, setting Dali’s all-time auction… and it still stands . Painted at the same time as the Great Masturbateur, Portrait of Paul Eluard condenses the Dalinian iconography of the time, especially with the roaring lion’s head symbolizing desire.
It was 1929 when Dali painted this delirious portrait of the poet who came to visit him in Cadaquès with his wife at that time.. a certain Gala. Dali immediately fell in love with Gala, who become his principal inspiration. The work is not only the portrait of Paul Eluard, it also marks the beginning of the most famous couple in Surrealism. Faced with such a powerful love story, the bidding escaped from the limitations of the work’s format…
Surrealism
Surrealism* is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings. Artists painted unnerving, illogical scenes with photographic precision, created strange creatures from everyday objects, and developed painting techniques that allowed the unconscious to express itself. Its aim was to « resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality into an absolute reality, a super-reality ».
Works of surrealism feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions and non sequitur; however, many surrealist artists and writers regard their work as an expression of the philosophical movement first and foremost, with the works being an artifact. Leader André Breton was explicit in his assertion that Surrealism was, above all, a revolutionary movement.
Surrealism developed out of the Dada activities during World War I and the most important center of the movement was Paris. From the 1920s onward, the movement spread around the globe, eventually affecting the visual arts, literature, film, and music of many countries and languages, as well as political thought and practice, philosophy, and social theory.
(*Source: wikipedia.org)
Upcoming auctions
February 26, 2019: Surrealist Art Evening Sale – Sotheby’s London
https://www.artprice.com/sale/292467/surrealist+art+evening+sale
February 27, 2019: The Art Of The Surreal Evening Sale – Christie’s London
https://www.artprice.com/sale/296145/the+art+of+the+surreal+evening+sale
Copyright ©2019 thierry Ehrmann – www.artprice.com
Try our services (free demo):
https://www.artprice.com/artist/23640/baishi-qi
Subscribe to our services:
https://www.artprice.com/subscription
About Artprice:
Artprice is listed on the Eurolist by Euronext Paris, SRD long only and Euroclear: 7478 – Bloomberg: PRC – Reuters: ARTF.
Founded by thierry Ehrmann (see Who’s who certified Biography ) (c) https://imgpublic.artprice.com/img/wp/sites/11/2018/10/bio-2019-whos-who-thierry-ehrmann.pdf ).
Dicover Artprice in video: https://www.artprice.com/video
Artprice is the global leader in art price and art index databanks. It has over 30 million indices and auction results covering more than 700,000 artists. Artprice Images® gives unlimited access to the largest Art Market resource in the world: a library of 126 million images or prints of artworks from the year 1700 to the present day, along with comments by Artprice’s art historians.
Artprice permanently enriches its databanks with information from 6,300 auctioneers and it publishes a constant flow of art market trends for the world’s principal news agencies and approximately 7,200 international press publications.
For its 4,500,000 members, Artprice gives access to the world’s leading Standardised Marketplace for buying and selling art. Artprice is preparing its blockchain for the Art Market. It is BPI-labelled (scientific national French label) Artprice’s Global Art Market Annual Report for 2017 published last March 2018: https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-art-market-in-2017
Artprice is associated with Artron Group the Chinese leader in the Art Market, its solid institutional partner.
About the Artron Group:
“Artron Art Group (Artron), a comprehensive cultural industrial group founded in 1993 by Wan jie, is committed to inheriting, enhancing and spreading art value. Based on abundant art data, Artron provides art industry and art fans with professional service and experience of quality products by integrated application of IT, advanced digital science and innovative crafts and materials.
Having produced more than 60,000 books and auction catalogues, Artron is the world’s largest art book printer with a total print volume of 300 million a year. It has more than 3 million professional members in the arts sector and an average of 15 million daily visits, making it the world’s leading art website.”
Artron’s Web: www.Artron.net
Artprice’s Contemporary Art Market Annual Report for 2017 – free access at: https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-contemporary-art-market-report-2017
Artprice’s press releases:
http://serveur.serveur.com/Press_Release/pressreleaseen.htm
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom
Artmarket News:
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom & https://twitter.com/artmarketdotcom
https://www.facebook.com/artpricedotcom 3.7 million subscribers
http://artmarketinsight.wordpress.com/
Discover the Alchemy and the universe of Artprice http://web.artprice.com/video, which headquarters are the famous Museum of Contemporary Art, the Abode of Chaos:
The Contemporary Art Museum The Abode of Chaos
https://www.facebook.com/la.demeure.du.chaos.theabodeofchaos999
3.5 million subscribers
Contact: ir@artprice.com
Artprice: Top 20 photographers by 2018 auction turnover
In our series of art market rankings designed to highlight some of its key trends, this week, artprice take a look at the photography market at auction.
thierry Ehrmann: ”The photography market represents just 1.7% of global Fine Art auction turnover, and 3% of the total number of Fine Art lots sold. But it has very interesting specificities that distinguish it from other Fine Art segments, starting with the fact that it is strongly dominated by Contemporary Art. Somewhat unusually, the figurehead of this market is, this year again, a woman, and an artist at the height of her art… Cindy Sherman”.
Gustave LE GRAY (1820-1884)
Boats leaving the port of Le Havre (1856-57)
1. Cindy Sherman (1954) – United States
$6,737,871
With 18 lots already auctioned above the $1 million threshold, Cindy Sherman is one of the three unmissable artists in today’s photography market. The prices of her photos have been gradually rising since 2012 and her market is particularly liquid with more than 60 photographs selling at auction per year and an unsold rate of just 20%.
2. Richard Prince (1949) – US
$6,504,718
3. Andreas Gursky (1955) – Germany
$5,147,708
4. Wolfgang Tillmans (1968) – Germany
$4,947,645
Single edition photographs from Tillmans’ series Freischwimmer Einzelgänger and Greifber have been hugely successful over the last two years in auction rooms and now fetch over $600,000. Yet more than 60% of his photos still sell for under $50,000 at auction. Wolfgang Tillmans was discovered by the general public in 2000 after winning the Turner Prize. In 2017, he was offered a retrospective at the Fondation Beyeler in Basel.
5. Irving Penn (1917-2009) – United States
$3,940,908
6. Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) – United States
$3,433,837
7. Hiroshi Sugimoto (1948) – Japan
$3,277,496
While the United States largely dominates the photography market, Germany, Japan and France are still very attached to this medium. Hiroshi Sugimoto has been the most successful Japanese photographer on the secondary market for the last 15 years. His maritime horizons – photographed all over the planet – form his most accomplished works and the works most appreciated by collectors. His major photos, in five editions, today fetch over $300,000.
8. Richard Avedon (1923-2004) – United States
$2,533,905
9. Ansel Easton Adams (1902-1984) – United States
$2,424,772
10. Diane Arbus (1923-1971) – United States
$2,380,129
11. Helmut Newton (1920-2004) – Germany
$2,266,289
Newton is one of the rare major photographers to have hammered an auction record in 2018. The only known print of Panoramic Nude with Gun, Villa d’Este Como (1989) far exceeded Phillips’ estimates in London on 18 May, fetching nearly a million dollars.
12. Peter Beard (1938) – United States
$2,260,378
13. Thomas Ruff (1958) – Germany
$1,517,803
14. Barbara Kruger (1945) – United States
$1,507,283
15. Gerhard Richter (1932) – Germany
$1,507,119
16. Gustave Le Gray (1820-1884) – France
$1,448,561
In 2018 no less than 77 photographs by Gustave Le Gray were auctioned, with a peak price of $225,000. This performance makes Le Gray the most successful 19th century photographer – or, put another way – the photography market’s leading historical figure. However, the prices of his works seem to be contracting. Boats leaving the port of Le Havre (1856-57), which had set a record $1,264,000 on 18 June 2011 at Rouillac (France), was resold for $965,000 on 17 February 2016 at Christie’s in New York.
17. Man Ray (1890-1976) – United States
$1,376,050
The year 2017 gave a substantial boost to Man Ray’s market, notably by setting two successive records for his photographs. First Portrait of a tearful woman (1936) on 17 May 2017 in New York, and then Black and White (1926) on 9 November 2017 in Paris, acquired for $2.2 million and $3.1 million respectively. Although his best works were much rarer in 2018, Man Ray remains a pillar of the photography market.
18. Edward Henry Weston (1886-1958) – United States
$1,353,158
19. László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) – Hungary
$1,332,653
20. Robert Frank (1924) – Switzerland
$1,316,356
After experiencing strong price growth just before the 2008 crisis, the value of Robert Franck’s works has slowly stabilized. The price of his photos are still 2.5 times higher on average than 20 years ago, with results regularly exceeding $100,000.
Copyright ©2019 thierry Ehrmann – www.artprice.com
Try our services (free demo):
https://www.artprice.com/artist/23640/baishi-qi
Subscribe to our services:
https://www.artprice.com/subscription
About Artprice:
Artprice is listed on the Eurolist by Euronext Paris, SRD long only and Euroclear: 7478 – Bloomberg: PRC – Reuters: ARTF.
Founded by thierry Ehrmann (see Who’s who certified Biography ) (c) https://imgpublic.artprice.com/img/wp/sites/11/2018/10/bio-2019-whos-who-thierry-ehrmann.pdf ).
Dicover Artprice in video: https://www.artprice.com/video
Artprice is the global leader in art price and art index databanks. It has over 30 million indices and auction results covering more than 700,000 artists. Artprice Images® gives unlimited access to the largest Art Market resource in the world: a library of 126 million images or prints of artworks from the year 1700 to the present day, along with comments by Artprice’s art historians.
Artprice permanently enriches its databanks with information from 6,300 auctioneers and it publishes a constant flow of art market trends for the world’s principal news agencies and approximately 7,200 international press publications.
For its 4,500,000 members, Artprice gives access to the world’s leading Standardised Marketplace for buying and selling art. Artprice is preparing its blockchain for the Art Market. It is BPI-labelled (scientific national French label) Artprice’s Global Art Market Annual Report for 2017 published last March 2018: https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-art-market-in-2017
Artprice is associated with Artron Group the Chinese leader in the Art Market, its solid institutional partner.
About the Artron Group:
“Artron Art Group (Artron), a comprehensive cultural industrial group founded in 1993 by Wan jie, is committed to inheriting, enhancing and spreading art value. Based on abundant art data, Artron provides art industry and art fans with professional service and experience of quality products by integrated application of IT, advanced digital science and innovative crafts and materials.
Having produced more than 60,000 books and auction catalogues, Artron is the world’s largest art book printer with a total print volume of 300 million a year. It has more than 3 million professional members in the arts sector and an average of 15 million daily visits, making it the world’s leading art website.”
Artron’s Web: www.Artron.net
Artprice’s Contemporary Art Market Annual Report for 2017 – free access at: https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-contemporary-art-market-report-2017
Artprice’s press releases:
http://serveur.serveur.com/Press_Release/pressreleaseen.htm
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom
Artmarket News:
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom & https://twitter.com/artmarketdotcom
https://www.facebook.com/artpricedotcom 3.7 million subscribers
http://artmarketinsight.wordpress.com/
Discover the Alchemy and the universe of Artprice http://web.artprice.com/video, which headquarters are the famous Museum of Contemporary Art, the Abode of Chaos:
The Contemporary Art Museum The Abode of Chaos
https://www.facebook.com/la.demeure.du.chaos.theabodeofchaos999
3.5 million subscribers
Contact: ir@artprice.com
Artprice: Artists under forty – Top 10 ranking
In our fortnightly series of art market rankings designed to highlight some of its key trends, this week, artprice take a look at the new generation of artists emerging on the secondary market. One conclusion stands out above the rest: you don’t have to be over forty to fetch over a million dollars!
thierry Ehrmann: “There are six artists in our ranking of the Top 10 results of the year 2018 for artists aged less than forty. Among them, two have attracted 7 digit results: the young Chinese HAO Liang and the American artist of Nigerian origin Njideka Akunyili CROSBY. They both generated two results above the million-dollar threshold and they are both 35 years old. However, their domination of this ranking comes as no major surprise…”
| Rank | Artist | Hammer Price ($) | Artwork | Sale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Njideka Akunyili CROSBY (1983) | 1 ,932 ,500 | Mimetic Gestures | 2018-05-18 – Christie’s New York |
| 2 | HAO Liang (1983) | 1, 855 ,061 | Shell | 2018-09-30 – Sotheby’s Hong Kong |
| 3 | Njideka Akunyili CROSBY (1983) | 1 ,392 ,500 | Untitled | 2018-11-16 – Christie’s New York |
| 4 | HAO Liang (1983) | 1 ,361, 398 | The Hunter and the Transformations of Hell | 2018-11-24 – Christie’s Wanchai |
| 5 | Avery SINGER (1987) | 735 ,000 | Fellow Travelers, Flaming Creatures | 2018-05-16 – Sotheby’s New York |
| 6 | JIA Chang (1981) | 678, 805 | Elephant | 2018-06-17 – Poly International Auction Co.,Ltd Pékin |
| 7 | Avery SINGER (1987) | 591, 000 | Untitled (Saturday Night) | 2018-11-15 – Sotheby’s New York |
| 8 | Avery SINGER (1987) | 435 ,000 | Flute Soloist | 2018-09-25 – Sotheby’s New York |
| 9 | Cory ARCANGEL (1978) | 399, 000 | Photoshop CS… | 2018-05-17 – Phillips New York |
| 10 | Nate LOWMAN (1979) | 350 ,000 | Escalade | 2018-11-15 – Sotheby’s New York |
| copyright © 2019 artprice.com | ||||
Auction turnover CROSBY vs. HAO
Auction turnover CROSBY vs. HAO
Two young ‘millionaires’
Njideka Crosby has been headline news since 2014 when she was awarded the James Dicke Contemporary Artist Prize by the Smithsonian American Art Museum. On the secondary market, her works have been subject to massive demand since 2016 when her works first appeared… (also the year of her first 7-digit result).
Today, with seven 7-digit results under her belt over two years, she is the clear spearhead of a new generation of African-American artists shaking the auction market.
Her record currently stands at over $3 million for a painting of her sister (The Beautiful Ones) sold in 2017 at Christie’s in London by Peggy Cooper Cafritz, an equal rights activist and a major collector of African-American and African art who died last year. Initially American, demand for Crosby’s work quickly spread to Asia (with the successful sale of Tea Time In New Haven, Enugu for over $900,000 at Christie’s in Hong Kong on 27 May 2017).
Supply is clearly well below current demand: her works are still rare at auction and none has ever failed to sell. The artist, who already had the support of a major gallery through Victoria Miro in London, is now also supported, since last November, by the powerful David Zwirner Gallery in Asia and the United States.
The Chinese art market produced the second ‘millionaire’ young artist of 2018 in the person of Hao Liang who first caught people’s attention in 2014 with a superb auction debut: a silk scroll over 13 meters long titled The Tale of the Clouds that fetched $912,000 at Christie’s in Shanghai.
The year 2018 saw a double auction consecration for this young artist acclaimed by the Asian market, with two new million-plus results, including a $1.8 million record on 30 September in Hong Kong versus a pre-sale estimate of between $400,000 and $600,000. While the market for this prodigy has not yet spread beyond Greater China, his notoriety has already spread across the globe.
Supported by the powerful Gagosian Gallery (which gave him a New York exhibition last spring), the artist is already in the collections of major museums around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Pompidou Center in Paris and the Kadist in San Francisco.
Straw fire or new meteor?
Chinese collectors always support their artists, even when those artists don’t yet have an international reputation.
For proof… our Top 10 ranking also contains an artist about whom almost nothing is known except that he is called Jia Chang, was born in 1981, and that one of his drawings elicited vigorous bidding at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beijing at a sale organized by Poly Auction.
The drawing entitled Elephant (355 x 190 cm) multiplied its pre-sale estimate by five with a final bid of $679,000 on 17 June 2018. A spectacular result that could be a straw fire… or may translate into solid medium-term support.
In a different register, the ranking also highlights the American artist Avery Singer, aged 31, who already has a strong CV after exhibitions at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin), the Kunsthalle in Zürich, the New Museum in New York and the Hammer Museum In L.A..
Courted by museums and the media, the young artist is seeing her auction prices rocket after a first discreet appearance at Sotheby’s in London in October 2017 and despite two unsold pieces in New York last year. Singer produces surprising large fictional compositions, mainly in black and white, integrating 3D modeling.
Considering the support she is receiving, we can expect further surprises. In 2013, her canvas Fellow Travelers, Flaming Creatures was acquired from New York’s Greene Naftali Gallery for $20,000. In May 2018 the same work fetched $735,000 at Sotheby’s New York.
The buyer was none other than Larry Gagosian.
Copyright ©2019 thierry Ehrmann – www.artprice.com
Try our services (free demo):
https://www.artprice.com/artist/23640/baishi-qi
Subscribe to our services:
https://www.artprice.com/subscription
About Artprice:
Artprice is listed on the Eurolist by Euronext Paris, SRD long only and Euroclear: 7478 – Bloomberg: PRC – Reuters: ARTF.
Founded by thierry Ehrmann (see Who’s who certified Biography ) (c) https://imgpublic.artprice.com/img/wp/sites/11/2018/10/bio-2019-whos-who-thierry-ehrmann.pdf ).
Dicover Artprice in video: https://www.artprice.com/video
Artprice is the global leader in art price and art index databanks. It has over 30 million indices and auction results covering more than 700,000 artists. Artprice Images® gives unlimited access to the largest Art Market resource in the world: a library of 126 million images or prints of artworks from the year 1700 to the present day, along with comments by Artprice’s art historians.
Artprice permanently enriches its databanks with information from 6,300 auctioneers and it publishes a constant flow of art market trends for the world’s principal news agencies and approximately 7,200 international press publications.
For its 4,500,000 members, Artprice gives access to the world’s leading Standardised Marketplace for buying and selling art. Artprice is preparing its blockchain for the Art Market. It is BPI-labelled (scientific national French label) Artprice’s Global Art Market Annual Report for 2017 published last March 2018: https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-art-market-in-2017
Artprice is associated with Artron Group the Chinese leader in the Art Market, its solid institutional partner.
About the Artron Group:
“Artron Art Group (Artron), a comprehensive cultural industrial group founded in 1993 by Wan jie, is committed to inheriting, enhancing and spreading art value. Based on abundant art data, Artron provides art industry and art fans with professional service and experience of quality products by integrated application of IT, advanced digital science and innovative crafts and materials.
Having produced more than 60,000 books and auction catalogues, Artron is the world’s largest art book printer with a total print volume of 300 million a year. It has more than 3 million professional members in the arts sector and an average of 15 million daily visits, making it the world’s leading art website.”
Artron’s Web: www.Artron.net
Artprice’s Contemporary Art Market Annual Report for 2017 – free access at: https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-contemporary-art-market-report-2017
Artprice’s press releases:
http://serveur.serveur.com/Press_Release/pressreleaseen.htm
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom
Artmarket News:
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom & https://twitter.com/artmarketdotcom
https://www.facebook.com/artpricedotcom 3.7 million subscribers
http://artmarketinsight.wordpress.com/
Discover the Alchemy and the universe of Artprice http://web.artprice.com/video, which headquarters are the famous Museum of Contemporary Art, the Abode of Chaos:
The Contemporary Art Museum The Abode of Chaos
https://www.facebook.com/la.demeure.du.chaos.theabodeofchaos999
3.5 million subscribers
Contact: ir@artprice.com
Artprice: the Top 20 female artists in the global Art Market during 2018
Artprice: the Top 20 female artists in the global Art Market during 2018
Although women account for half of the world’s population (and therefore half of the world’s intelligence, sensitivity and inspiration…), they are still substantially under-represented on the global Art Market. Looking back, women did not become a regular part of art history’s narrative until the end of the 19th century. However, today’s secondary art market is still largely dominated by men.
According to Artprice’s founder/CEO thierry Ehrmann, “the generation now imposing itself on the secondary market – that of artists under 40 – is fortunately closing the gender gap”. In 2018, the Top 5 artists (by auction turnover) born after 1978 include three women. This highly symbolic transformation of the market is being accompanied by an increasing recognition of major female signatures who are gradually being admitted into the Pantheon of the high-end Art Market, with big-number results in auction rooms.
Top 20 Female Artists by Auction Turnover in 2018
© Artprice.com
Auction turnover: $102,532,176
The top selling female artist in the global Art Market – all periods of creation combined – is none other than an 89-year-old Japanese woman who has spent 40 years living in a psychiatric hospital. A key figure in 20th-century art with her obsessive creative practices, Yayoi Kusama’s work is in many respects close to Art Brut.
Moreover, this is the fourth consecutive year in which Kusama has generated the highest annual auction turnover for a female artist in the world. In 2018, twenty-one of her works fetched sums above the million-dollar threshold worldwide: fifteen in Hong Kong, three in New York, two in London and one in Seoul.
Auction turnover: $83,925,120
On 1 May 2018 the David Zwirner Gallery announced publicly that it now has exclusive representation rights with the Joan Mitchell Foundation. A first solo exhibition of the artist is scheduled in New York in 2019, but the Market has already reacted very positively. On 17 May 2018, her Blueberry (1969) buried its estimate of $5-7 million when it fetched $16.6 million at Christie’s in New York, setting a new auction record for the American artist.
3. Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986)
Auction turnover: $66,666,700
Auction turnover: $32,480,908
Following a remarkable performance in 2017, the English artist Cecily Brown emerged as one of the major figures of the Contemporary Art Market in 2018. On 16 May, her painting Suddenly Last Summer (1999) fetched $6,776,200 at Sotheby’s New York, setting an impressive new record. The canvas, originally acquired from the Gagosian in 2000, was sold in May 2010 for $1,082,500, at Sotheby’s New York. Since then its value has multiplied by six in just eight years.
5. Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010)
Auction turnover: $24,616,761
6. Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975)
Auction turnover: $19,947,414
Auction turnover: $17,208,649
8. Tamara De Lempicka (1898-1980)
Auction turnover: $16,382,986
Auction turnover: $13,225,583
British artists are definitely in vogue on the Art Market. Jenny Saville (known for her participation in the Young British Artists movement) is today the most expensive living female artist in the world. A few months after David Hockney earned the same title in the male artists category, Saville saw her Propped (1992) acquired for $12.5 million at Sotheby’s in London. The price of her works has a lot to do with scarcity of supply: only 41 paintings by Jenny Saville have been auctioned in 20 years.
Auction turnover: $10,317,602
11. Maria Elena VIEIRA DA SILVA (1908-1992)
Auction turnover: $7,707,244
Auction turnover: $7,103,990
13. Camille CLAUDEL (1864-1943)
Auction turnover: $6,996,741
Auction turnover: $6,755,382
Auction turnover: $6,123,286
16. Elisabeth FRINK (1930-1993)
Auction turnover: $4,390,860
Auction turnover: $3,989,020
In 2018 the Indonesian artist Christine Ay Tjoe continued her ascent with 13 lots sold at auction and no unsolds. Since 2008, her price index has risen +1,200%.
Artprice ‘s price index for Christine Ay Tjoe
Artprice’s price index for Christine Ay Tjoe
18. Niki DE SAINT-Phalle (1930-2002)
Auction turnover: $3,966,458
19. Njideka Akunyili CROSBY (1983-)
Auction turnover: $3,868,973
The great revelation of the year 2017, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, has just finished twelve reassuring months on the auction market. Three paintings and a drawing were sold, either within or above the pre-sale estimates. The decline in supply is also good news as it suggests collectors do not expect a drop in her prices. This situation is ideal for the young painter who saw the prices of her paintings rocket after her exhibition at the Victoria Miro gallery in London in October 2016.
20. Louise NEVELSON (1899-1988)
Auction turnover: $3,845,112
Try our services (free demo): https://www.artprice.com/artist/23640/baishi-qi
Subscribe to our services: https://www.artprice.com/subscription
Copyright ©2019 thierry Ehrmann – www.artprice.com
About Artprice:
Artprice is listed on the Eurolist by Euronext Paris, SRD long only and Euroclear: 7478 – Bloomberg: PRC – Reuters: ARTF.
Founded by thierry Ehrmann (see Who’s who certified Biography ) (c) https://imgpublic.artprice.com/img/wp/sites/11/2018/10/bio-2019-whos-who-thierry-ehrmann.pdf ).
Dicover Artprice in video: https://www.artprice.com/video
Artprice is the global leader in art price and art index databanks. It has over 30 million indices and auction results covering more than 700,000 artists. Artprice Images® gives unlimited access to the largest Art Market resource in the world: a library of 126 million images or prints of artworks from the year 1700 to the present day, along with comments by Artprice’s art historians.
Artprice permanently enriches its databanks with information from 6,300 auctioneers and it publishes a constant flow of art market trends for the world’s principal news agencies and approximately 7,200 international press publications. For its 4,500,000 members, Artprice gives access to the world’s leading Standardised Marketplace for buying and selling art. Artprice is preparing its blockchain for the Art Market. It is BPI-labelled (scientific national French label) Artprice’s Global Art Market Annual Report for 2017 published last March 2018: https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-art-market-in-2017
Artprice is associated with Artron Group the Chinese leader in the Art Market, its solid institutional partner.
About the Artron Group:
“Artron Art Group (Artron), a comprehensive cultural industrial group founded in 1993 by Wan jie, is committed to inheriting, enhancing and spreading art value. Based on abundant art data, Artron provides art industry and art fans with professional service and experience of quality products by integrated application of IT, advanced digital science and innovative crafts and materials. Having produced more than 60,000 books and auction catalogues, Artron is the world’s largest art book printer with a total print volume of 300 million a year. It has more than 3 million professional members in the arts sector and an average of 15 million daily visits, making it the world’s leading art website.”
Artron’s Web: www.Artron.net
Artprice’s Contemporary Art Market Annual Report for 2017 – free access at: https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-contemporary-art-market-report-2017
Artprice’s press releases:
http://serveur.serveur.com/Press_Release/pressreleaseen.htm
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom
Artmarket News:
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom & https://twitter.com/artmarketdotcom
https://www.facebook.com/artpricedotcom 3.4 million subscribers
http://artmarketinsight.wordpress.com/
Discover the Alchemy and the universe of Artprice http://web.artprice.com/video, which headquarters are the famous Museum of Contemporary Art, the Abode of Chaos:
The Contemporary Art Museum The Abode of Chaos
https://www.facebook.com/la.demeure.du.chaos.theabodeofchaos999 3.4 million subscribers
Contact: ir@artprice.com
Artprice (New York): Top bracket artworks for sale at the beginning of 2019
Artprice (New York): Top bracket artworks for sale at the beginning of 2019
No respite for art lovers! The new year has already begun, with French provincial sales throwing up superb treasures… The auction calendar will resume back in New York with Christie’s starting 2019 with five sales, including a highly anticipated Art Brut sale. But it is Sotheby’s which gathered the most expensive lots for the very first big sale of the year: Master Paintings Evening Sale, that will be held on 30 January 2019.
Top 10 upcoming artworks at auction in January 2019
© Artprice.com
| Artist | Artwork | Estimate | Sale | |
| 1 | Joachim WTEWAEL (c.1566-c.1638) | A Banquet of the Gods | $5,000,000 – $7,000,000 | 01.30.2019 – Sotheby’s NY |
| 2 | Elisabeth VIGE-LEBRUN (1755-1842) | Portrait of Muhammad Dervish Khan (1788) | $4,000,000 – $6,000,000 | 02.30.2019 – Sotheby’s NY |
| 3 | Jan VAN DE CAPPELLE (c.1624-1679) | A Shipping Scene on a Calm Sea | $4,000,000 – $6,000,000 | 03.30.2019 – Sotheby’s NY |
| 4 | Ambrosius BOSSCHAERT I (1573-1621) | A Still Life of Flowers in a Glass Flask (1607) | $2,500,000 – $3,500,000 | 04.30.2019 – Sotheby’s NY |
| 5 | Peter Paul RUBENS (1577-1640) | Nude Study of a Young Man | $2,500,000 – $3,500,000 | 05.30.2019 – Sotheby’s NY |
| 6 | Orazio GENTILESCHI (1563-1639) | The Fall of the Rebel Angels | $2,500,000 – $3,500,000 | 06.30.2019 – Sotheby’s NY |
| 7 | Pieter BRUEGHEL II (c.1564-1637/38) | St. George’s Kermis (1627) | $2,000,000 – $3,000,000 | 07.30.2019 – Sotheby’s NY |
| 8 | Fede GALIZIA (1578-1630) | A Glass Compote with Peaches | $2,000,000 – $3,000,000 | 08.30.2019 – Sotheby’s NY |
| 9 | Jacobus VREL (c.1630-c.1680) | Street Scene with Two Figures Walking Away | $1,500,000 – $2,000,000 | 09.30.2019 – Sotheby’s NY |
| 10 | Luis MELENDEZ (1716-1780) | Still Life with a Plate of Azaroles | $1,500,000 – $2,000,000 | 10.30.2019 – Sotheby’s NY |
Nevertheless, the most exciting lots are not necessarily the most expensive ones. thierry Ehrmann, Founder and CEO of Artprice insists : “The mid-range Art Market is full of opportunities and it is worth keeping track of what is on offer as soon as the year begins…”
The unique world of Henry Darger
Henry Darger (1892-1973) created an exceptionally broad spectrum œuvre that was discovered in his room after his death. A secretive and reclusive character, Darger created a unique world, including a 15,000-page illustrated and typed manuscript, The Realms of the Unreal, describing events from a completely imaginary world in which a bunch of pre-teen girls (the Vivian Girls) on an imaginary planet wage a war against adults to obtain their freedom. Parallel to this written saga (but never published), Darger also painted. He produced – sometimes on both sides – large narrative panels that are pure masterpieces. His technique was also unique, drawing inspiration from a variety of sources (children’s art books, various magazines, fashion catalogs, etc.) copying the images in charcoal before applying water colours.
The first Darger works sold on the secondary market were actually auctioned in France at Loudmer’s in 1989. At that time, a panoramic drawing by the obscure celebrity fetched less than $10,000. Today, his drawings are in the collections of major museums including the MoMA, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris and the Collection de l’Art Brut in Lausanne. On the auction market one would expect to pay at least $150,000 for one of his most important works because they are both in-demand and rare. The one proposed by Christie’s on 18 January in New York is monumental – nearly three meters wide – and double-sided (drawn on both sides). It is expected to fetch between $250,000 and $500,000. Two days later, Sotheby’s will, in turn, sell a smaller double-sided drawing by Henry Darger (178-cm long) with an estimate value between $150,000 and $300,000. The simultaneousness of these two upcoming sales is noticeable, as only 19 drawings by Henry Darger have been seen in auction room since 1989.
The opulence of a small masterpiece by Wtewael
Jumping back over 400 hundred years… we have a superb baroque painting on copper entitled Banquet of the Gods by the Dutch painter Joachim Anthonisz Wtewael, one of Holland’s most important artists, active in the years 1580 – 1620. This masterful work depicts 47 figures – gods, fauns, women and putti – in orgiastic debauchery… all within the confines of 15.8 x 20.4 cm. With unmatched density, the artist portrays Bacchus, Ceres, Mars, Venus, Cupid, Pan and his muses at a grand banquet, and despite its small size, the work is expected to sell for between 5 and 7 million dollars on 30 January at Sotheby’s (New York). However, in view of its quality, it is quite possible the lot will reach its high estimate, especially since a smaller Wtewael work has already crossed the $7 million threshold. That was also an oil-on-copper measuring just 18.2 x 13.5 cm, a virtuoso composition depicting 12 bodies on the sensual theme of Mars and Venus surprised by Vulcan (Mars and Venus Surprised by Vulcan, $7.26m, at Christie’s London in 2012).
One of Rubens’ best drawings
Sotheby’s will also be offering an exquisitely rare drawing by Rubens which should fetch the Dutch virtuoso’s second best-ever auction result for a work on paper. It’s a study of a young man with arms raised measuring almost 50 centimeters, drawn in charcoal with a couple of white chalk highlights to catch the light. The work shows the artist’s change of mind regarding the position of the tensed and muscular legs. The torsion of the lower limbs and the momentum of the figure, forward and upward, is typical Baroque bravura. A result within the estimated range of $2.5 – $3.5 million would make it the second best-ever auction result for a Rubens drawing (and the best result for a Rubens charcoal). On 10 July 2014, Christie’s London hammered his best-ever result for a work on paper – an ink representing Samson and Delilah – at over $5.5 million.
Apart from the provincial sales in France and the year’s first New York sessions at Christie’s and Sotheby’s, we don’t yet know what other wonders the other major auction houses around the world will be offering over the coming months (China’s Poly Auction and China Guardian, Germany’s Dorotheum, France’s Artcurial, Korea’s Seoul Auction). In fact, the majority of auction operators do not start selling until later in the year, and some wait as long as May (Grisebach) before reopening after the winter break.
Copyright ©2019 thierry Ehrmann – www.artprice.com
About Artprice:
Founded by thierry Ehrmann (see Who’s who certified Biography ) (c) https://imgpublic.artprice.com/img/wp/sites/11/2018/10/bio-2019-whos-who-thierry-ehrmann.pdf ).
Artprice is listed on the Eurolist by Euronext Paris, SRD long only and Euroclear: 7478 – Bloomberg: PRC – Reuters: ARTF.
Dicover Artprice in video: https://www.artprice.com/video
Artprice is the global leader in art price and art index databanks. It has over 30 million indices and auction results covering more than 700,000 artists. Artprice Images® gives unlimited access to the largest Art Market resource in the world: a library of 126 million images or prints of artworks from the year 1700 to the present day, along with comments by Artprice’s art historians.
Artprice permanently enriches its databanks with information from 6,300 auctioneers and it publishes a constant flow of art market trends for the world’s principal news agencies and approximately 7,200 international press publications. For its 4,500,000 members, Artprice gives access to the world’s leading Standardised Marketplace for buying and selling art. Artprice is preparing its blockchain for the Art Market. It is BPI-labelled (scientific national French label) Artprice’s Global Art Market Annual Report for 2017 published last March 2018: https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-art-market-in-2017
Artprice is associated with Artron Group the Chinese leader in the Art Market, its solid institutional partner.
About the Artron Group:
“Artron Art Group (Artron), a comprehensive cultural industrial group founded in 1993 by Wan jie, is committed to inheriting, enhancing and spreading art value. Based on abundant art data, Artron provides art industry and art fans with professional service and experience of quality products by integrated application of IT, advanced digital science and innovative crafts and materials. Having produced more than 60,000 books and auction catalogues, Artron is the world’s largest art book printer with a total print volume of 300 million a year. It has more than 3 million professional members in the arts sector and an average of 15 million daily visits, making it the world’s leading art website.”
Artron’s Web: www.Artron.net
Artprice’s Contemporary Art Market Annual Report for 2017 – free access at: https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-contemporary-art-market-report-2017
Artprice’s press releases:
http://serveur.serveur.com/Press_Release/pressreleaseen.htm
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom
Artmarket News:
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom & https://twitter.com/artmarketdotcom
https://www.facebook.com/artpricedotcom 3.4 million subscribers
http://artmarketinsight.wordpress.com/
Discover the Alchemy and the universe of Artprice http://web.artprice.com/video, which headquarters are the famous Museum of Contemporary Art, the Abode of Chaos:
The Contemporary Art Museum The Abode of Chaos
https://www.facebook.com/la.demeure.du.chaos.theabodeofchaos999 3.4 million subscribers
Contact: ir@artprice.com
As of today, 1 January 2019, Artprice is accessible to new Chinese customers via Artron.net, the most visited art website in the world.
The year is beginning in excellent circumstances for Artprice and its shareholders! As planned, Artron, our Chinese institutional partner, has posted the artprice.com logo on the principal home page of its Chinese website artron.net, giving immediate access to our high-end subscriptions.
Artron-Artprice screenshot
https://zh.artprice.com/artron
Artprice is currently one of the very few Western companies to be accessible from inside China and its gated Internet system.
Artron.net receives more than 5.4 billion visits per year and has 3 million professional members who correspond to Artprice’s primary target clientele.
“We have overcome all the obstacles, and here we are in China! I thank Artron and President Wan Jie who opened the doors for us.” says thierry Ehrmann, Artprice’s founder/CEO.
And from Artron’s side, its founding President Wan Jie says “We share a common vision and a common sense of perfection. Our nine years of cooperation have resulted in a game changer for the history of the global Art Market and we are both looking forward to exceptional economic results in 2019.”
Artprice would like to wish its loyal shareholders a very Happy & Prosperous New Year!
About Artprice:
Founded by thierry Ehrmann (see Who’s who certified Biography ) (c) https://imgpublic.artprice.com/img/wp/sites/11/2018/10/bio-2019-whos-who-thierry-ehrmann.pdf ).
Artprice is listed on the Eurolist by Euronext Paris, SRD long only and Euroclear: 7478 – Bloomberg: PRC – Reuters: ARTF.
Dicover Artprice in video: https://www.artprice.com/video
Artprice is the global leader in art price and art index databanks. It has over 30 million indices and auction results covering more than 700,000 artists. Artprice Images® gives unlimited access to the largest Art Market resource in the world: a library of 126 million images or prints of artworks from the year 1700 to the present day, along with comments by Artprice’s art historians.
Artprice permanently enriches its databanks with information from 6,300 auctioneers and it publishes a constant flow of art market trends for the world’s principal news agencies and approximately 7,200 international press publications. For its 4,500,000 members, Artprice gives access to the world’s leading Standardised Marketplace for buying and selling art. Artprice is preparing its blockchain for the Art Market. It is BPI-labelled (scientific national French label) Artprice’s Global Art Market Annual Report for 2017 published last March 2018: https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-art-market-in-2017
Artprice is associated with Artron Group the Chinese leader in the Art Market, its solid institutional partner.
About the Artron Group:
“Artron Art Group (Artron), a comprehensive cultural industrial group founded in 1993 by Wan jie, is committed to inheriting, enhancing and spreading art value. Based on abundant art data, Artron provides art industry and art fans with professional service and experience of quality products by integrated application of IT, advanced digital science and innovative crafts and materials. Having produced more than 60,000 books and auction catalogues, Artron is the world’s largest art book printer with a total print volume of 300 million a year. It has more than 3 million professional members in the arts sector and an average of 15 million daily visits, making it the world’s leading art website. Founded in 1993by Wan Jie, the Artron Art Group is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. It is the first choice for art professionals, investors, collectors and art fans in general wishing to discover and/or participate in the art world or the art market. Founded in 1993, Artron Art Group is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year.”
Artron’s Web: www.Artron.net
Artprice’s Contemporary Art Market Annual Report for 2017 – free access at: https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-contemporary-art-market-report-2017
Artprice’s press releases:
http://serveur.serveur.com/Press_Release/pressreleaseen.htm
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom
Artmarket News:
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom & https://twitter.com/artmarketdotcom
https://www.facebook.com/artpricedotcom 3.4 million subscribers
http://artmarketinsight.wordpress.com/
Discover the Alchemy and the universe of Artprice http://web.artprice.com/video, which headquarters are the famous Museum of Contemporary Art, the Abode of Chaos:
The Contemporary Art Museum The Abode of Chaos
https://www.facebook.com/la.demeure.du.chaos.theabodeofchaos999 3.4 million subscribers
Contact: ir@artprice.com
The year 2019 is starting with very positive news for Artprice’s future… and the news takes effect as of 1 January 2019.
According to thierry Ehrmann Founder and CEO of Artprice: “For multiple reasons, 2019 is commencing with an excellent outlook for Artprice and its loyal shareholders over the last 21 years”.
The first exceptionally positive news is our penetration of the Chinese Art Market with its huge potential to generate new customers for Artprice. This move will substantially boost our sales turnover via the sale of Artprice subscriptions offered in China as of 1 January 2019 via Artron.net, our institutional partner. Artron is widely recognised as the most powerful actor on the Chinese Art Market.
The second positive news is that a week ago Artprice signed a deal with the most powerful press network in the world that will project Artprice’s hot market news to 1.8 billion people on a weekly basis.
This exceptional partnership has been concluded with the world’s leading newswire, Cision (PR NEWSWIRE). Cision’s software allows users to identify key influencers, craft and distribute strategic content, and measure meaningful impact (see Cision’s official press release Artprice and Cision Enter Distribution Partnership at https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/artprice-and-cision-enter-distribution-partnership-300770437.html (Cision is listed on the NYSE, code CISN).
This partnership will allow Artprice to project highly pertinent Art Market News and Information on a weekly basis. Cision’s electronic newswire will communicate all of Artprice’s unique market indices… the Artprice100®, the Artprice Global Index®, the AMCI®, etc… in real time.
By reaching more than 1.8 billion targeted people in 19 languages on 5 continents (representing 90% of the world’s GDP), this move unquestionably strengthens Artprice’s position as World Leader in Art Market Information.
Thanks to this massive news & info distribution agreement, Artprice will project its unique know-how and understanding of the Art Market, reaching new art fans, collectors and professionals whose geographical location previously hindered an economical distribution of the Artprice brand and its databases.
This obstacle has now been eliminated, allowing Artprice to be the ‘glocal’ reference for the Art Market. (‘Glocal’ is a combination of two words: global and local. It is often used to indicate a global marketing strategy with local relays. Hence the dictum “Think global, act local”).
Artprice was the global leader… but there were still a number of ‘local’ economic ‘white zones’.
As of 1 January 2019, Artprice, with its loyal institutional partner Artron, will irrigate the 34 divisions / provinces of the People’s Republic of China with its paid databank content.
With Cision, no territory – whatever the continent – will escape Artprice… now a truly ‘Glocal’ and unique reference for the Art Market.
In short, with Cision, Artprice has become unavoidable at the global level for all matters relating to the Art Market because Cision has the world’s largest and most reliable press release network that can identify key influencers. Art Press Agency® and Artmarket.com is now the world’s leading art press agency dedicated to the Art Market.
About Cision :
Cision Ltd. (NYSE: CISN) is a leading global provider of earned media software and services to public relations and marketing communications professionals. Cision’s software allows users to identify key influencers, craft and distribute strategic content, and measure meaningful impact. Cision has over 4,000 employees with offices in 19 countries throughout the Americas, EMEA, and APAC. For more information about its award-winning products and services, including the Cision Communications Cloud®
About Artprice:
Founded by thierry Ehrmann (see Who’s who certified Biography ) (c) https://imgpublic.artprice.com/img/wp/sites/11/2018/10/bio-2019-whos-who-thierry-ehrmann.pdf ).
Artprice is listed on the Eurolist by Euronext Paris, SRD long only and Euroclear: 7478 – Bloomberg: PRC – Reuters: ARTF.
Dicover Artprice in video: https://www.artprice.com/video
Artprice is the global leader in art price and art index databanks. It has over 30 million indices and auction results covering more than 700,000 artists. Artprice Images® gives unlimited access to the largest Art Market resource in the world: a library of 126 million images or prints of artworks from the year 1700 to the present day, along with comments by Artprice’s art historians.
Artprice permanently enriches its databanks with information from 6,300 auctioneers and it publishes a constant flow of art market trends for the world’s principal news agencies and approximately 7,200 international press publications. For its 4,500,000 members, Artprice gives access to the world’s leading Standardised Marketplace for buying and selling art. Artprice is preparing its blockchain for the Art Market. It is BPI-labelled (scientific national French label) Artprice’s Global Art Market Annual Report for 2017 published last March 2018: https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-art-market-in-2017
Artprice is associated with Artron Group the Chinese leader in the Art Market, its solid institutional partner.
About the Artron Group:
“Artron Art Group (Artron), a comprehensive cultural industrial group founded in 1993 by Wan jie, is committed to inheriting, enhancing and spreading art value. Based on abundant art data, Artron provides art industry and art fans with professional service and experience of quality products by integrated application of IT, advanced digital science and innovative crafts and materials. Having produced more than 60,000 books and auction catalogues, Artron is the world’s largest art book printer with a total print volume of 300 million a year. It has more than 3 million professional members in the arts sector and an average of 15 million daily visits, making it the world’s leading art website. Founded in 1993by Wan Jie, the Artron Art Group is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. It is the first choice for art professionals, investors, collectors and art fans in general wishing to discover and/or participate in the art world or the art market. Founded in 1993, Artron Art Group is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year.”
Artron’s Web: www.Artron.net
Artprice’s Contemporary Art Market Annual Report for 2017 – free access at: https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-contemporary-art-market-report-2017
Artprice’s press releases:
http://serveur.serveur.com/Press_Release/pressreleaseen.htm
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom
Artmarket News:
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom & https://twitter.com/artmarketdotcom
https://www.facebook.com/artpricedotcom 3.4 million subscribers
http://artmarketinsight.wordpress.com/
Discover the Alchemy and the universe of Artprice http://web.artprice.com/video, which headquarters are the famous Museum of Contemporary Art, the Abode of Chaos:
The Contemporary Art Museum The Abode of Chaos
https://www.facebook.com/la.demeure.du.chaos.theabodeofchaos999 3.4 million subscribers
Contact: ir@artprice.com
L’année 2019 va démarrer sur une note très positive pour le futur d’Artprice et ce dès le 01 Janvier 2019.
thierry Ehrmann Fondateur et PDG d’Artprice : « Pour de multiples raisons, l’année 2019 se présente sous les meilleures auspices pour Artprice et ses fidèles actionnaires depuis 21 ans. »
Après la récente annonce de la pénétration du Marché de l’Art chinois avec son énorme potentiel de nouveaux clients pour Artprice et chiffre d’affaires attendu venant des abonnements Artprice proposés dès le 1er Janvier 2019 via Artron.net, notre partenaire institutionnel en Chine, mais aussi de manière unanime connu pour être l’acteur le plus puissant sur le Marché de l’Art et les artistes en Chine.
Artprice se félicite de bénéficier depuis quelques jours du réseau de presse le plus puissant au monde sur 1.8 milliard de personnes touchées de manière hebdomadaire.
En effet le partenariat exceptionnel conclu avec le Leader mondial du fil d’informations Cision et des méta-bases de données d’influenceurs économiques (lire le communiqué officiel de Cision cotée au NYSE CISN) Artprice and Cision Enter Distribution Partnership disponible à l’adresse : https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/artprice-and-cision-enter-distribution-partnership-300770437.html va permettre à Artprice de diffuser chaque semaine des actualités et informations pertinentes sur le Marché de l’Art.
Ce fil d’informations diffusera l’ensemble de ces indices uniques au monde : Artprice100®, Artprice Global Index®, AMCI®, etc. diffusés en temps réel par les réseaux électroniques de Cision.
Artprice renforce ainsi de manière incontestable sa position de Leader mondial de l’Information sur le Marché de l’Art, sur plus de 1.8 milliard de personnes ciblées sur les 5 continents et 19 langues représentant 90% du PIB de la planète.
Grâce à cette diffusion massive, Artprice distribuera son savoir unique sur le Marché de l’Art, sensibilisant sans aucun doute ainsi de nouveaux amateurs, collectionneurs et professionnels de l’Art, dont la situation géographique était jusque-là un obstacle en termes de rentabilité pour la propagation de la marque Artprice et de ses banques de données.
Cet obstacle est désormais annihilé permettant ainsi à Artprice d’être la référence glocale du Marché de l’Art.
Le terme « Glocal » vient de la contraction de deux mots : Global et Local. C’est une stratégie entre le marketing dit « global » et le marketing dit « local ». C’est-à-dire pour un groupe d’avoir une stratégie mondiale mais la mettre en œuvre en ayant des relais locaux.
Une expression illustre ce principe : « Think global, act local ».
Artprice était le Leader mondial global, mais des poches économiques locales subsistaient.
Dès le 1er Janvier 2019 Artprice par son fidèle associé institutionnel Artron irriguera les 34 divisions / provinces de la République Populaire de Chine de ses banques de données payantes.
De même, avec Cision, aucun territoire, quel que soit le continent, n’échappera à Artprice qui deviendra ce que très peu de groupes ont accompli, une référence « Glocale ».
Artprice devient donc à cet instant incontournable au niveau mondial, dès qu’il s’agit de parler de Marché de l’Art / Art Market, avec Cision, via son réseau de distribution de communiqués le plus vaste et le plus fiable du secteur, en identifiant notamment les influenceurs clés, pour former la première agence de presse mondiale dédiée au Marché de l’Art : Art Press Agency et Artmarket.com.
A propos de Cision :
Cision Ltd. (NYSE: CISN) est un fournisseur mondial de premier plan de logiciels et de services multimédias destinés aux professionnels des relations publiques et de la communication marketing. Le logiciel de Cision permet aux utilisateurs d’identifier les influenceurs clés, de créer et de distribuer du contenu stratégique et de mesurer un impact significatif. Cision emploie plus de 4 000 personnes et possède des bureaux dans 19 pays des Amériques, EMEA et APAC
A propos d’Artprice :
Artprice est cotée sur Eurolist by Euronext Paris, SRD long only et Euroclear : 7478 – Bloomberg : PRC – Reuters : ARTF.
Découvrir Artprice en vidéo : https://fr.artprice.com/video
Artprice fut fondée en 1997 par thierry Ehrmann qui est son PDG. Artprice est auto-contrôlée par le Groupe Serveur créé en 1987. Voir biographie certifiée de Who’s who © :
https://imgpublic.artprice.com/img/wp/sites/11/2018/10/bio-2019-whos-who-thierry-ehrmann.pdf
Artprice est le Leader mondial des banques de données sur la cotation et les indices de l’Art avec plus de 30 millions d’indices et résultats de ventes couvrant plus de 700 000 Artistes. Artprice Images® permet un accès illimité au plus grand fonds du Marché de l’Art au monde, bibliothèque constituée de 126 millions d’images ou gravures d’oeuvres d’Art de 1700 à nos jours commentées par ses historiens.
Artprice enrichit en permanence ses banques de données en provenance de 6300 Maisons de Ventes et publie en continu les tendances du Marché de l’Art pour les principales agences et 7200 titres de presse dans le monde. Artprice met à la disposition de ses 4,5 millions de membres (members log in), les annonces déposées par ses Membres, qui constituent désormais la première Place de Marché Normalisée® mondiale pour acheter et vendre des oeuvres d’Art à prix fixe ou aux enchères (enchères réglementées par les alinéas 2 et 3 de l’article L 321.3 du Code du Commerce).
Artprice, labellisée par le BPI pour la deuxième fois en novembre 2018, développe son projet de Blockchain sur le Marché de l’Art.
Au sujet d’Artron :
« Artron Art Group (Artron) présidé par son Fondateur Mr Wan Jie est un vaste groupe de l’industrie culturelle qui s’est engagé à hériter, à améliorer et à diffuser la valeur de l’art. Sur les bases de données artistiques abondantes, Artron fournit aux professionnels de l’industrie de l’art et aux amateurs d’art un service professionnel et une expérience de produits de qualité grâce à des applications informatiques intégrées, une science numérique avancée et des matériaux et métiers innovants.
Artron est le plus grand imprimeur de livres d’art au monde, avec plus de 60 000 livres et catalogues de vente aux enchères et un volume de publication total de 300 millions par an. Artron.net est la marque la plus respectée du monde de l’art chinois. Artron.net compte plus de 3 millions de membres professionnels dans le secteur des arts et 15 millions de visites quotidiennes en moyenne, ce qui en fait le premier site Web d’art mondial. C’est le premier choix des professionnels de l’art, des investisseurs et des adeptes d’entrer dans le monde de l’art. Artron fête ses 25 ans. Fondé en 1993, Artron Art Group fête cette année ses 25 ans. »
Bilan S1 2018 Mondial du Marché de l’Art, par Artprice en ligne sur :
https://fr.artprice.com/artprice-reports/bilan-du-marche-de-lart-s1-2018-par-artprice-com
Le Rapport Annuel Artprice du Marché de l’Art mondial 2017 publié en mars 2018 :
https://fr.artprice.com/artprice-reports/le-marche-de-lart-en-2017
Le Rapport du Marché de l’Art Contemporain 2018 d’Artprice :
https://fr.artprice.com/artprice-reports/le-marche-de-lart-contemporain-2018
Sommaire des communiqués d’Artprice :
http://serveur.serveur.com/press_release/pressreleasefr.htm
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom
Suivre en temps réel toute l’actualité du Marché de l’Art avec Artprice sur Facebook, Google+ Twitter :
https://www.facebook.com/artpricedotcom 3,4 millions d’abonnés
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom & https://twitter.com/artmarketdotcom
https://plus.google.com/+Artpricedotcom/posts
http://artmarketinsight.wordpress.com/
Découvrir l’alchimie et l’univers d’Artprice http://web.artprice.com/video dont le siège social est le célèbre Musée d’art contemporain Abode of Chaos dixit The New York Times / La Demeure du Chaos: https://issuu.com/demeureduchaos/docs/demeureduchaos-abodeofchaos-opus-ix-1999-2013
Musée d’Art Contemporain siège social d’Artprice :
https://www.facebook.com/la.demeure.du.chaos.theabodeofchaos999
(3,5 millions d’abonnés)
Contact ir@artprice.com
Artprice: imminent nomination of a Chief Executive in China
Artprice: imminent nomination of a Chief Executive in China
Considering the depth of Artprice’s strategic, capitalistic and economic involvement with Artron, thierry Ehrmann plans to propose to Artprice’s board of directors the nomination of a Chief Executive responsible for its Chinese and Greater Asia operations.
The selected candidate (not a member of the Ehrmann family) has all the confidence of thierry Ehrmann, who remains CEO and Chairman of the Group.
The objective of this strategy is to accelerate the numerous initiatives recently engendered by Artprice’s and Artron’s contractual and promissory agreements. This informed decision has been carefully deliberated and enjoys the unanimous support with the Group.
About Artron:
Artron Art Group (Artron) is a general cultural industry group rooted in the art field and aims to “serve the people with art” by “serving the people’s art”, inherit, enhance, spread and realize values of art, and inherit excellent art and culture and enhance their values in professional art markets; spread values of art and culture and convey the beauty of art to people’s daily lives in public art markets.
As China’s largest comprehensive art service platform, Artron.net delivers four solutions including Smart Archive, Smart Show, Smart Deal and Smart Reading. In addition, upon resources and professional studies of Artron’s art market monitor agency (AMMA) and almost 20 years’ of experience in the field of art, it has established long-term strategic cooperation with governmental bodies such as the Ministry of Culture, cultural institutions such as the Palace Museum, global art universities, internet companies such as Baidu and overseas research institutes.
Artron’s Web: www.artron.com.cn; www.artron.net.
Contact: 400-6690-999
About Artprice:
Founded by thierry Ehrmann (see Who’s who certified Biography ) (c) https://imgpublic.artprice.com/img/wp/sites/11/2018/10/bio-2019-whos-who-thierry-ehrmann.pdf ).
Artprice is listed on the Eurolist by Euronext Paris, SRD long only and Euroclear: 7478 – Bloomberg: PRC – Reuters: ARTF.
Dicover Artprice in video: https://www.artprice.com/video
Artprice is the global leader in art price and art index databanks. It has over 30 million indices and auction results covering more than 700,000 artists. Artprice Images(R) gives unlimited access to the largest Art Market resource in the world: a library of 126 million images or prints of artworks from the year 1700 to the present day, along with comments by Artprice’s art historians.
12 Oct. 2018: Artprice and Artron have just created an “Art Media Mogul”:
Video: https://vimeo.com/296010836
Artprice permanently enriches its databanks with information from 6,300 auctioneers and it publishes a constant flow of art market trends for the world’s principal news agencies and approximately 7,200 international press publications. For its 4,500,000 members, Artprice gives access to the world’s leading Standardised Marketplace for buying and selling art. Artprice is preparing its blockchain for the Art Market. It is BPI-labelled (scientific national French label)Artprice’s Global Art Market Annual Report for 2017 published last March 2018: https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-art-market-in-2017
Artprice’s Contemporary Art Market Annual Report for 2017 – free access at: https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-contemporary-art-market-report-2017
Artprice’s press releases:
http://serveur.serveur.com/Press_Release/pressreleaseen.htm
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom
Artmarket News:
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom & https://twitter.com/artmarketdotcom
https://www.facebook.com/artpricedotcom & https://plus.google.com/+artpricedotcom/posts
http://artmarketinsight.wordpress.com/
Discover the Alchemy and the universe of Artprice http://web.artprice.com/video, which headquarters are the famous Museum of Contemporary Art, the Abode of Chaos:
The Contemporary Art Museum The Abode of Chaos on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/la.demeure.du.chaos.theabodeofchaos999
Contact: ir@artprice.com
Artprice: the 45th edition of the fiac! opens in a general climate of optimism, but…
The 45th edition of the FIAC opens on Wednesday 17 October in a general climate of optimism. Artprice’s 2018 Contemporary Art Market Report reveals growth on a planetary scale, which the International Contemporary Art Fair in Paris and its numerous off shows are hoping will translate into buoyant sales:
Y-o-Y stability for Contemporary Art Market (2017/18 vs. 2016/17)
Global auction turnover rose +19% to a total of $1.9 billion
The number of lots sold increased by +17% with 66,850 adjudications
The global unsold rate remained stable at 39%
The Contemporary Art Price Index gained +18.5%
Artprice‘s 2018 Contemporary Art Market Report is available free of charge at
https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-contemporary-art-market-report-2018
The Global Contemporary Art Market has posted exponential growth over the past 18 years (2017/18 vs. 2000/01)
Global turnover has risen +1,700% from $103 million to $1.9 billion
The number of auction transactions has multiplied 5.5x from 12,300 to 66,850 lots sold.
The top auction price has risen from $5.6 million to $110.5 million (respectively for Jeff Koons and Jean-Michel Basquiat)
Paris to put France back on the world stage
On the new global Art Market, driven essentially by Contemporary Art and dominated by New York, London, Beijing and Hong Kong (which account for 82% of the segment’s global auction turnover), Paris is striving to defend its historical position and influence. But France’s annual performance ($783 million in 2017) today represents only a little more than the turnover generated by a single prestige sale in New York at Sotheby’s or Christie’s.
According to Thierry Ehrmann, founder and CEO of Artprice, Paris is looking for a new lease of life. The City of Light wants to take full of advantage of its prestige and bring back buyers from around the world… it wants to recapture the high-end market. This ambition requires profound change and deep market restructuring, a process that has already begun. The future of Paris is today far more dependent on the FIAC and on the performances of the major Anglo-Saxon auction houses than on its traditional structures like Drouot and the Salon des Antiquaires.
All of the market’s key ‘makers’ at the Grand Palais
With 60 galleries French galleries among a total of 195, the FIAC ensures that French creation is not forgotten at the fair. Nevertheless, the FIAC’s real strength is its superbly international roster of galleries. The FIAC would not be the FIAC without Blum & Poe, Pace, Lisson, Paula Cooper, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, Gladstone and of course David Zwirner, Gagosian, Marian Goodman, White Cube, etc.
The FIAC is an opportunity for all Contemporary Art lovers to see the world’s most prestigious galleries gathered in Paris. For the big galleries, it’s an opportunity to take part in a particularly selective meeting in one of the world’s most majestic venues: the nave of the Grand Palais, where the Salon des Refusés was historically held, and which nowadays also hosts Paris fashion week.
The major galleries who deserted the FIAC usually come back sooner or later; this year sees the return of the giant Hauser & Wirth, New York’s Canada and Paul Kasmin, the Belgian gallery Rodolphe Janssen (among others). But booths are expensive in the Grand Palais and the quality of the galleries is extremely high. Between those returning and those making their first appearance, the actual gallery turnover rate is only 16%, i.e. less than one booth in six.
If the FIAC’s international offer has legitimised the fair on the international circuit, it now resembles other major fairs like Art Basel, the Armory Show and especially the Frieze, organized just two weeks earlier on the other side of the Channel (only 2h on the Eurostar). Moreover, a third of the French galleries present at the FIAC were also present at the Frieze… so in the end, the FIAC’s French specificity is relatively small.
In fact, one of the Parisian fair’s principal attractions is probably the exceptional, majestic setting offered by the Grand Palais. However, this superb venue will again be closed for works between 2021 and 2023, so it does rather look as though the FIAC will have to adapt its strategy in order to maintain its influence and ensure that collectors visit the temporary structure that will be installed in the Champ-de-Mars under the Eiffel Tower during the Grand Palais’ closure.
Lots of auction records during Frieze
The auction houses have long understood the importance of organising prestige sales in parallel with the major fairs in order to take full advantage of the concomitant gathering of art professionals and collectors. Last year, 49 auctions were held in Paris (in 39 auction houses) during the FIAC week, generating $134 million in seven days (17% of French auction turnover on Fine Art sales in 2017). The year’s two best results were also hammered during the week on 19 and 20 October 2017: Alberto Giacometti’s Grande femme II (1960) fetched $29.4 million and Jean- Michel Basquiat’s Jim Crow (1986) sold for $17.7 million.
This year again Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Artcurial (the top three French auction houses) are organizing their most important sales of the year in Paris during the FIAC. Others, including Leclere and Cornette de Saint Cyr, are waiting till the end of the event, but will be active as of Monday 22 October.
The major houses hope the spillover from the Paris FIAC will be as beneficial as that from the Frieze on London sales earlier in the month. Banksy’s self-destructing Girl with Balloon (2006) attracted a lot of attention… but there were lots of other memorable results during the week, with three of the autumn’s top ten global auction records, so far. Among these, Jenny Saville’s Propped (1992) – a historical piece from the Young British Artists movement that was part of the Sensation exhibition in 1997 – fetched $12.4 million, a record for a living female artist, overtaking Cady Noland who held that record for three years after her Bluewald (1989) sold for $9.8 million at Christie’s New York on 11 May 2015.
Top 10 auction records a (September – October 2018)
© Artprice.com
Artist – Work – Price – Sale
1 Zao Wou-Ki (1921-2013) – June-October 1985 – $65.204.489 – 30-09-2018 Sotheby’s Hong Kong
2 Jenny Saville (1970) – Propped (1992) – $12.490.583 – 05-10-2018 Sotheby’s London
3 Tsuguharu Foujita (1886-1968) – The party (1949) – $9,366,687 – 11-10-2018 Bonhams London
4 Albert Oehlen (1954) – Stier mit loch (1986) – $4,695,131 – 04-10-2018 Christie’s London
5 Leon Bonnat (1833-1922) – Samson’s Youth (1891) – $2,045,047 – 12-09-2018 Christie’s London
6 Kyung-Ja Chon (1924-2015) – Prairie II (1978) – $1,928,504 – 19-09-2018 K-Auction Seoul
7 Hao Liang (1983) – Shell (2010-2011) – $1,855,061 – 30-09-2018 Sotheby’s Hong Kong
8 Kaws ( 1974) – Again And Again (2008) – $1,348,952 – 05-10-2018 Sotheby’s London
9 Wang Xingwei (1969) – Still no A-mark (1998) – $1,272,479 – 30-09-2018 Sotheby’s Hong Kong
10 Lin Richard (1933-2011) – Painting Relief 12.12.63 – $1,165,161 – 30-09-2018 Sotheby’s Hong Kong
The Art Market nevertheless showed some signs of caution in London, particularly at Christie’s 4 October sale where two star lots, Jeff Koons’ Cracked Egg (Blue) (1994-2006) and Gerhard Richter’s Schädel (1983) failed to sell against estimates exceeding $10 million. However, overall, the initial results of the autumn season are extremely positive, often adding value, occasionally showing restraint… proving that the high-end market is capable of selecting the best pieces and of curbing price growth even for the most fashionable Contemporary artists.
The Paris major auction sales will therefore be held in a particularly favourable context. In addition to the annual sessions of 20th Century Art, the sale of the collections of Oscar Mairlot and Nathalie Seroussi at Sotheby’s and of Benedicte Pesle at Christie’s could well share the spotlight with the FIAC.
thierry Ehrmann : Artprice et Artron donnent naissance au Media Mogul de l’Art
Video : https://vimeo.com/295406694
About Artprice:
Artprice is listed on the Eurolist by Euronext Paris, SRD long only and Euroclear: 7478 – Bloomberg: PRC – Reuters: ARTF.
Dicover Artprice in video: https://www.artprice.com/video
Artprice is the global leader in art price and art index databanks. It has over 30 million indices and auction results covering more than 700,000 artists. Artprice Images(R) gives unlimited access to the largest Art Market resource in the world: a library of 126 million images or prints of artworks from the year 1700 to the present day, along with comments by Artprice’s art historians.
Artprice permanently enriches its databanks with information from 6,300 auctioneers and it publishes a constant flow of art market trends for the world’s principal news agencies and approximately 7,200 international press publications. For its 4,500,000 members, Artprice gives access to the world’s leading Standardised Marketplace for buying and selling art. Artprice is preparing its blockchain for the Art Market. It is BPI-labelled (scientific national French label)Artprice’s Global Art Market Annual Report for 2017 published last March 2018: https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-art-market-in-2017
Artprice’s Contemporary Art Market Annual Report for 2017 – free access at: https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-contemporary-art-market-report-2017
Artprice’s press releases:
http://serveur.serveur.com/Press_Release/pressreleaseen.htm
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom
Artmarket News:
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom & https://twitter.com/artmarketdotcom
https://www.facebook.com/artpricedotcom & https://plus.google.com/+artpricedotcom/posts
http://artmarketinsight.wordpress.com/
Discover the Alchemy and the universe of Artprice http://web.artprice.com/video, which headquarters are the famous Museum of Contemporary Art, the Abode of Chaos:
The Contemporary Art Museum The Abode of Chaos on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/la.demeure.du.chaos.theabodeofchaos999
Contact: ir@artprice.com
Artprice presents its 2018 Contemporary Art Market Report ahead of the Frieze and the FIAC: Plus 1,744% turnover growth in 18 years, an 8.1% annual yield.
Artprice presents its 2018 Contemporary Art Market Report ahead of the Frieze and the FIAC: Plus 1,744% turnover growth in 18 years, an 8.1% annual yield.
Artprice, founded and presided by thierry Ehrmann, achieves in close collaboration with its Chinese institutional partner the group Artron/AMMA (Art Market Monitor of Artron) founded and presided by WAN Jie, its 21st report.
A full market is now active on 5 continents.
The almost parallel increases over the 12 months to June 2018 in the Contemporary Art Market’s three main indicators (+19% global turnover, +17% lots sold and +18% in the segment’s price index) suggests a very rapid and balanced growth of Contemporary Art sales worldwide.
The average annual financial return, currently +8.1% on Contemporary works, looks very attractive indeed in the context of negative or near-zero rates that erode cash savings.
The Artprice Contemporary Art Market Report 2018, an indispensable tool for anyone attending the big autumn fairs, particularly the Frieze and the Fiac, is available free of charge at the following address:
https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-contemporary-art-market-report-2018
N.B. for the purposes of our report
Contemporary Art = works created by artists born after 1945
Fine Art = painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, videos, prints, installations
Period analysed: 1 July 2017 – 30 June 2018
The 66,850 transactions hammered over the 12–month period reflect a market of unprecedented intensity. Since 2000/2001, the number of transactions has multiplied 5.5 times. Over the same period, global turnover has risen + 1,744% from $103 million to $1.9 billion. The average price of a Contemporary work has risen from $8,400 at the turn of the 21st century to $28,000 today. Moreover, today’s Contemporary Art Market offers unprecedented diversity: 20,335 artists born after 1945 recorded at least one auction result over the 12 month period, nearly five times more than in 2000/2001 (4,100 Contemporary artists).
According to thierry Ehrmann, Artprice’s founder and CEO, “We have had a period of restructuring that lasted roughly three years; but the Contemporary Art Market is now back on a much stronger footing. Although prices are indeed rising again, there is a much broader supply that allows a better selection of works… and the perfectly stable unsold rate, at 39%, guarantees a balanced market.”
The United Kingdom ($545 million) and mainland China ($298 million) both posted excellent turnover totals, up 55% and 15% respectively. On the other hand, the USA posted a 13% contraction versus the year-earlier period that was boosted by the exceptional record of $110.5 million for Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Untitled (1984).
London, New York, Beijing and Hong Kong alone account for 82% of global auction sales of Contemporary Art, from just 17% of the global lots sold.
The French market posted a remarkable performance with sales of Contemporary Art up 81% during the 12-month period to $71 million. In the rest of Europe, Germany (+40%), Italy (+31%) and Belgium (+27%) consolidated their 5th, 7th and 10th places respectively on the global Contemporary Art Market. Elsewhere, several countries contributed to the market’s growth around the globe: Japan (+22%), Australia (+15%), South Korea (+15%), South Africa (+25%).
Key figures:
-
Global turnover was up 19% to $1.9 billion
-
The number of lots sold rose by 17%, with 66,850 auction results
-
The global unsold rate remained stable at 39%
-
The Contemporary Art Price Index posted an increase of 18.5%
-
Since 2000/2001, global turnover has risen 1,744%, from $103 million to $1.9 billion
-
Since 2000/2001, the lots sold total has multiplied 5.5x from 12,300 to 66,850
-
Contemporary Art auction results were recorded in 59 countries last year
-
New York, London, Beijing and Hong Kong accounted for 82% of turnover, on 17% of global lots sold
-
Greater China (Hong Kong and Taiwan included) generated $480m, i.e. 26% of the global market
-
Europe had an exceptional year: France +81%, Germany +40%, Italy +31%
-
The Netherlands, Belgium and Austria each generated over $8 million
-
South Korea ($8 million) and the Philippines ($5 million) bring Southeast Asia into the global market
-
Australia ($10 million) and New Zealand ($5 million) are in the top 20 marketplaces
-
South Africa ($6 million) leads Africa, with Morocco and Nigeria far behind
-
The Middle East is represented by Turkey ($5 million), Iran ($3 million), UAE ($2 million) and Israel ($1 million)
1. General synopsis. Contemporary Art’s market performance
Available for free online, the new 2018 Artprice Contemporary Art Market Report provides decision support tools via four chapters that analyse the evolution, the organization and the latest trends in the Contemporary Art Market. The four chapters explore the hottest topics in the global market and provide answers to questions that any art lover, collector, professional or curator who is active in the Contemporary Art Market might have.
2. Artists’ prices
Stimulated by a sensational record of $110.5 million in May 2017, the Contemporary art Market has just ended a third consecutive semester of growth. The principal drivers of this growth are ever-stronger demand for works by the stars of Contemporary art and a proliferation of supply in a particularly favorable economic context.
3. Africa and its diasporas
From the construction of a market for African Contemporary art in France… to the explosion of African-American art in the United States: a brief look at the “African” wave sweeping across the entire Art Market.
4. In the news
She’s French, but has ‘emerged’ in England. Laure Prouvost already has a brilliant career with a superb CV: she studied at Central Saint Martins (cinema) and Goldsmiths College, received the Max Mara Award in 2011 followed by an exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery, before winning the famous Turner Prize in 2013.
Top 100 Contemporary works sold at auction (July 2017 – June 2018)
Top 500 Contemporary artists by auction turnover (July 2017 – June 2018)
Contemporary Art (12% of the global Art Market compared with just 2.8% in 2000) cannot be measured using the same yardstick we use for Impressionist or Modern Art. Over the same period, its auction turnover has increased +1,744% from $103 million to $1.9 billion. The popularity and prices indices of a Contemporary artist are highly sensitive to a range of different factors, constantly subject to the influence of events and “art news” in general.
In order to study this reality, Artprice – the world leader in art market information – has developed a new method of analysis and a range of decision support tools in collaboration with its econometrists, its editorial team and it art historians. The result is a methodology that provides optimum insight into the market’s price developments.
According to thierry Ehrmann, “The myth of the wretched artist is no longer relevant to the modern era and the old notion that the only good artist is a dead artist has been consigned to oblivion”.
This 2018 Contemporary Art Market Report (its 21st since 1997) goes straight to the heart of this fascinating issue… the role of artists in the modern era. I believe we can safely agree with the poetic understanding of this role enunciated by the philosopher Giorgio Agamben: that a Contemporary (artist) is he who firmly holds his gaze on his own time so as to perceive not its light, but rather its darkness… a role that is being revived from a long slumber.
In a standardised and globalised world, the Contemporary artist brings us that extra soul which we are constantly in need of.«
http://www.artprice.com Copyright thierry Ehrmann1987/2018
About Artprice:
Artprice is listed on the Eurolist by Euronext Paris, SRD long only and Euroclear: 7478 – Bloomberg: PRC – Reuters: ARTF.
Dicover Artprice in video: https://www.artprice.com/video
Artprice is the global leader in art price and art index databanks. It has over 30 million indices and auction results covering more than 700,000 artists. Artprice Images(R) gives unlimited access to the largest Art Market resource in the world: a library of 126 million images or prints of artworks from the year 1700 to the present day, along with comments by Artprice’s art historians.
Artprice permanently enriches its databanks with information from 6,300 auctioneers and it publishes a constant flow of art market trends for the world’s principal news agencies and approximately 7,200 international press publications. For its 4,500,000 members, Artprice gives access to the world’s leading Standardised Marketplace for buying and selling art. Artprice is preparing its blockchain for the Art Market. It is BPI-labelled (scientific national French label)Artprice’s Global Art Market Annual Report for 2017 published last March 2018: https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-art-market-in-2017
Artprice’s Contemporary Art Market Annual Report for 2017 – free access at: https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-contemporary-art-market-report-2017
Artprice’s press releases:
http://serveur.serveur.com/Press_Release/pressreleaseen.htm
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom
Artmarket News:
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom & https://twitter.com/artmarketdotcom
https://www.facebook.com/artpricedotcom & https://plus.google.com/+artpricedotcom/posts
http://artmarketinsight.wordpress.com/
Discover the Alchemy and the universe of Artprice http://web.artprice.com/video, which headquarters are the famous Museum of Contemporary Art, the Abode of Chaos:
The Contemporary Art Museum The Abode of Chaos on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/la.demeure.du.chaos.theabodeofchaos999
Contact: ir@artprice.com
Artprice: H1 2018 Global Art Market Report – all indicators are positive.
First Half 2018: the Art Market posted a general recovery of +18%
1 Global auction turnover on Fine Art* rose 18%, totalling $8.45 billion
2 Transaction numbers remained stable with 262,000 lots sold, up 2.5% vs. H1 2017
3 The USA posted a massive 48% increase, with total turnover of $3.3 billion
4 China*, with $2 billion in turnover, reduced its unsold rate before a decisive H2
5 The UK, with auction turnover up 18% to $1.9 billion, is just behind China
6 The EU is contributing to growth: France +8%, Germany +17%, Italy +22%
7 Modern Art, the mainstay of the market’s high-end, accounted for 46% of total turnover
8 Modigliani and Picasso both scored results above $100 million threshold
9 Zao Wou-Ki was China’s best-performer in H1 2018 with total sales of $155 million
10 Contemporary Art’s global price index rose 27%, a serious competitor of the S&P 500
* Public sales of Fine Art (Painting, Sculpture, Drawing, Photography, Prints, Installations)
**In collaboration with Art Market Monitor of Artron (AMMA)
General conclusion…
Worldwide, the Art Market grew by +18% in H1 2018, pursuing the growth we saw in H1 2017 (+9%) and confirmed in H2 2017 (+32%).
Global figures
At a global level, more than 262,000 Fine Art lots were auctioned in the first six months of 2018, generating a total product of $8.45 billion (including fees). Artprice, the world leader in Art Market information since 1987, has systematically analysed and digested the results of more than 3,532 auction sales around the world. This half-year report covers public sales of Fine Art (painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, prints and installations).
Read Artprice.com’s H1 2018 Global Art Market Report online at: https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/global-art-market-in-h1-2018-by-artprice-com
According to thierry Ehrmann, Artprice founder and CEO, “Since the turn of the century, the Art Market has demonstrated an exceptionally high degree of maturity, resisting the NASDAQ crisis, the consequences of nine-eleven, of the second Iraq war and of course the unprecedented financial and economic crises that started in 2007. Since then, it has been operating against a backdrop of negative interest rates that undermine the value of savings and, more recently, in a global context of heightening geopolitical tensions. During these past 18 years, the Art Market has managed to adapt to reality, not only avoiding its own collapse in the face of financial crises, but actually creating a genuine investment safe-haven without forming a speculative bubble.”
The attractive returns on art over the last few years have outperformed many other investments and the Art Market has become an independent, liquid and efficient market on all continents.
Top 10 Countries by Auction Turnover H1 2018
Country – Turnover – (Market Share)
1 United States – $3,341,746,766 – (39.6%)
2 China – $1,997,226,110 – (23.6%)
3 United Kingdom – $1,873,284,804 – (22.2%)
4 France – $372,461,596 – (4.4%)
5 Germany – $122,765,010 – (1.5%)
6 Italy – $118,907,954 – (1.4%)
7 Switzerland – $76,847,823 – (1.3%)
8 Japan – $66,901,157 – (0.9%)
9 Austria – $53,562,620 – (0.8%)
10 India – $38,351,733 – (0.6%)
Other: – $383,793,555 – (5.0%)
The Top 500 artists by sales product indicates China has acquired, over he years, a significant position in the Art Market and now boasts 128 of the world’s 500 most-rated artists, far ahead of the United States (82) and Great Britain (27).
The data pertaining to the Chinese Art market is the fruit of Artprice’s 7-year collaboration with its Chinese institutional partner, Artron Group and AMMA (Art Market Monitor by Artron), directed by Wan Jie.
Despite a relatively unfavourable economic context, the global art market has shown signs of buoyancy, driven by a powerful combination of investment logic, speculative buying, passion collecting and insatiable demand for major signatures from new museums around the world.
These growth drivers rely heavily on easy access to reliable Art Market information such as provided by Artprice (pioneer and global leader in the field) and have been boosted by a whole series of underlying phenomena. These include a rapidly spreading awareness that every aspect of participation in the art market, including online sales, can be conducted via the Internet (98% of participants are connected to Internet); a financialisation of the art market’s high-end fostered by its stability and transparency; a rapid increase in the art-buying population from roughly 500,000 after 1945 to approximately 90 million in 2018; a significant reduction in the average age of market players and a major geographical expansion of the market to nearly all of Asia, the Pacific Rim, India, South Africa, the Middle-East and South America
Another massive Art Market driver is the new-era museum industry (700 new museums per year) that has become a significant economic reality in the 21st century. More museums opened between 2000 and 2014 than in the previous two centuries.
Hungry for museum quality works, this sector is one of the primary drivers of the Art Market’s spectacular growth. The Art Market is now both mature and liquid, offering yields of 10% to 15% per year on works valued over $100,000.
Considering these macro- and micro-economic data, the past 18 years have confirmed the Art Market’s potential as a safe haven against economic and financial turbulence, generating substantial and recurring yields.
With central banks effectively working in a negative interest rate environment, the Art Market looks very healthy by comparison having posted a 2,108% growth in the annual auction turnover of its Contemporary segment over the past 18 years. The global Art Market has also posted linear growth
In the average value of an artwork (Old, Modern and Contemporary) of +25% over the same period. If we look at the Contemporary segment alone, the progression is +88%.
These returns are not just reserved for “star” artists. We find a substantial average annual yield of +9% on works sold above the €20,000 threshold.
The Artprice100® shows a progression of +360% since 2000. About Artprice100® :
The Art Market is an efficient, historical and global market whose capacity to resist economic and geopolitical crises requires is now beyond doubt.
TOP 20 artists – H1 2018 © Artprice com
Artist — Turnover (USD) — Number of works sold — Best result (USD)
1 Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973) – $602,865,747 – 1,841 – $115,000,000
2 Claude MONET (1840-1926) – $267,055,149 – 22 – $84,687,500
3 Andy WARHOL (1928-1987) – $175,393,487 – 778 – $37,000,000
4 Jean-Michel BASQUIAT (1960-1988) – $162,756,656 – 64 – $45,315,000
5 Amedeo MODIGLIANI (1884-1920) – $160,869,523 – 22 – $157,159,000
6 ZAO Wou-Ki (1921-2013) – $154,558,288 – 268 – $23,305,301
7 Henri MATISSE ( 1869-1954) – $144,675,227 – 227 – $80,750,000
8 ZHANG Daqian (1899-1983) – $107,478,086 – 283 – $13,129,521
9 Kasimir MALEVICH (1878-1935) – $96,248,783 – 6 – $85,812,500
10 Joan MIRO (1893-1983) – $87,818,817 – 696 – $21,687,500
11 Gerhard RICHTER (1932-) – $80,720,365 – 177 – $16,563,000
12 David HOCKNEY (1937-) –$77,358,842 – 214 – $28,453,000
13 Alberto GIACOMETTI (1901-1966) – $73,528,071 $ – 74 – $16,647,567
14 Francis BACON (1909-1992) –$73,156,871 – 58 – $49,812,500
15 Constantin BRANCUSI (1876-1957) –$71,921,220 – 3 – $71,000,000
16 QI Baishi (1864-1957) – $64,402,510 – 169 – $8,753,015
17 Paul GAUGUIN (1848-1903) – $63,511,735 – 34 – $35,187,500
18 Fernand LÉGER (1881-1955) – $ 62,655,125 – 122 – $19,437,500
19 Richard DIEBENKORN (1922-1993) – $62,311,216 – 54 – $23,937,500
20 Yayoi KUSAMA (1929-) – $61,861,631 – 344 – $4,534,985
Top 10 auction results in H1 2018 © Artprice com
Artist – Work – Price (USD) – Date – Auctioneer
1 Amedeo MODIGLIANI (1884-1920) – Nu couché (sur le côté gauche) (1917) – $157,159,000 – 14/05/2018 – Sotheby’s New York
2 Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973) – Fillette à la corbeille fleurie (1905 ) – $115,000,000 – 08/05/2018 – Christie’s New York
3 Kasimir MALEVICH (1878-1935) – Suprematist Composition (1916) – $85,812,500 – 15/05/2018 – Christie’s New York
4 Claude MONET (1840-1926) – Nymphéas en fleur (c.1914-1917) – $84,687,500 – 08/05/2018 – Christie’s New York
5 Henri MATISSE (1869-1954) – Odalisque couchée aux magnolias (1923) – $80,750,000 – 08/05/2018 – Christie’s New York
6 Constantin BRANCUSI (1876-1957) – La jeune fille sophistiquée (1928) – $71,000,000 – 15/05/2018 – Christie’s New York
7 Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973) – Femme au béret et à la robe quadrillée (1937) – $68,702,214 – 28/02/2018 – Sotheby’s London
8 Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973) – La Dormeuse (1932) – $57,829,046 – 08/03/2018 – Phillips London
9 Francis BACON (1909-1992) – Study for Portrait (1977) – $49,812,500 – 17/05/2018 – Christie’s New York
10 Jean-Michel BASQUIAT (1960-1988) – Flexible (1984) – $45,315,000 – 17/05/2018 – Phillips New York
Copyright www.artprice.com thierry Ehrmann 1987/2018
About Artprice:
Artprice is listed on the Eurolist by Euronext Paris, SRD long only and Euroclear: 7478 – Bloomberg: PRC – Reuters: ARTF.
Dicover Artprice in video: https://www.artprice.com/video
Artprice is the global leader in art price and art index databanks. It has over 30 million indices and auction results covering more than 700,000 artists. Artprice Images(R) gives unlimited access to the largest Art Market resource in the world: a library of 126 million images or prints of artworks from the year 1700 to the present day, along with comments by Artprice’s art historians.
Artprice permanently enriches its databanks with information from 6,300 auctioneers and it publishes a constant flow of art market trends for the world’s principal news agencies and approximately 7,200 international press publications. For its 4,500,000 members, Artprice gives access to the world’s leading Standardised Marketplace for buying and selling art. Artprice is preparing its blockchain for the Art Market. It is BPI-labelled (scientific national French label)Artprice’s Global Art Market Annual Report for 2017 published last March 2018: https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-art-market-in-2017
Artprice’s Contemporary Art Market Annual Report for 2017 – free access at: https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-contemporary-art-market-report-2017
Artprice’s press releases:
http://serveur.serveur.com/Press_Release/pressreleaseen.htm
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom
Artmarket News:
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom & https://twitter.com/artmarketdotcom
https://www.facebook.com/artpricedotcom & https://plus.google.com/+Artpricedotcom/post
http://artmarketinsight.wordpress.com/
Discover the Alchemy and the universe of Artprice http://web.artprice.com/video, which headquarters are the famous Museum of Contemporary Art, the Abode of Chaos:
The Contemporary Art Museum The Abode of Chaos on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/la.demeure.du.chaos.theabodeofchaos999
Contact: ir@artprice.com
Artprice and Artmarket expand beyond expectations, post +590% growth on social media over H2 2017 and H1 2018, and 2.3 million followers.
Artprice and Artmarket expand beyond expectations, post +590% growth on social media over H2 2017 and H1 2018, and 2.3 million followers.
At its 30 June 2017 general meeting, Artprice had made a commitment to take the leading place for Art Market information on social media, where it had garnered 345K followers. To achieve this highly ambitious goal, Artprice, and its division Artmarket, had to acquire over 1 million followers for their publications over the H2 2017 and H1 2018 period.
And they hit the mark – in exactly 12 months, as of 25 June 2018, they have grown to 2.3 million followers, rising beyond expectations and posting a 590% year on year growth (June 2017 / June 2018). Although the Chinese Intranet blocks Western social media, Artprice has a strong presence in China through its partner, the Chinese State group ARTRON / AMMA.
Indeed some important international listed companies believed they could do without the complex social media but they now suffer from their fatal delay which generated huge economic damages and cast doubt on their positions. Even with a remarkable financial budget, the accumulated delay cannot be compensated due to social media’s elaborate architecture. Some S&P500 companies are perfect illustrations of that case.
According to Thierry Ehrmann, the founder and Ceo of Artprice, “From now on, the mark made on social media is one of the essential and vital factors for companies wishing to preserve their capital and future, going hand in hand with their reputation and worldwide visibility, as is the case of Artprice, the World Leader in Art Market information and its Standardised Marketplace Artmarket.com.”
This is why Artprice has made this line of communication its first choice, foreseeing for a long time the social media’s influence in its marketing, data banks, IT teams and sales forces, shaping more each day its experience in many social media platform to generate millions of qualified new followers for the various paid subscriptions to its databanks.
What’s more, Artprice was on a budget which made it possible to release more than €1 million in results for the 2017 financial year. This budgetary discipline is still topical in 2018. Its unrivaled high quality information, its reputation and its human and computer science savviness make Artprice the winner of this global challenge, on a very low budget.
After succeeding in getting the leading position on Google rankings, it was necessary for Artprice and Artmarket.com to replicate the world leading position for Art Market information on social media.
It’s a done deal! The proof is in an incredible 590% increase in global Internet market share, notably on the world’s N°. 1 social media platform Facebook. Artprice’s Facebook page has attracted more than 2.3 million followers, placing it among the most followed pages in the world. It should be noted that organizations that can count their followers in the millions form a very tight, elite group on the global scale.
On Twitter, Artprice and Artmarket tweets are often retweeted or liked by the most influent world-renowned art market professionals, as well as V.I.P.s and Market Makers. Artists, museums, art galleries, auction houses, journalists and art critics etc. provide positive reinforcement of the name Artprice for their own subscribers and followers.
By achieving this following of millions of amateurs, collectors and art professionals, in such a manner, on a world wide scale, provides Artprice with considerable monetary saving, and strengthens daily Artprice’s global digital footprint, which, in addition is increased by the Google index which only rates verified accounts on social media platforms.
The Artprice and Artmarket Twitter accounts have exceeded 360 millions impressions in one year. Artprice and Artmarket identifies among its followers close to 100% of the market share of Art market leaders regardless of the country.
Examples of the prestigious Twitters accounts that have reacted, by either retweeting or liking Artprice’s or Artmarket’s verified Twitter accounts, include the following prestigious accounts, drawn from 3% of Artpric’s global base:
The Louvre Museum, France with 1.41 million followers, LACMA, USA 1.11 million followers, Christie’s worldwide 110 thousand followers, Sotheby’s worldwide 102 thousand followers, Sotheby’s Institute, USA 12 thousand followers, Phillips Auctions worldwide 40 thousand followers, Bonhams Auctions worldwide 41 thousand followers, Van Gogh Museum, Hollande 1.66 million followers, Guggenheim Museum, NY, USA 3.62 million followers, Paul Getty Museum, LA, USA 3.23 million followers, Whitney Museum, NY, USA 1.09 million followers,
Museum of Fine arts Boston, USA 384 thousand followers, Heritage Auction, USA 58 thousand followers, The Louvre, Abu Dhabi, UAE 47 thousand followers, The Musée d’Orsay, France 680 thousand followers, MAXX IT, National Museum of Twentieth Century Arts. Italy: 202 thousand followers, Queens Museum, N, USA 160 thousand followers, Frieze Fairs London 156 thousand followers, Mory Art Museum Japan 162 thousand followers, Le Figaro FR 2.95 millions followers, Centre Pompidou FR 1.04 million followers, Musée Hermitage Russia 1.02 million followers, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Spain 365 thousand followers, Biennale di Venezia IT 710 thousand followers,
San Francisco MOMA, USA 643 thousand followers, Brooklyn Museum NY, USA 695 thousand followers, Asian Art Museum USA 302 thousand followers, Château de Versailles FR 450 thousand followers, Musée Rodin FR 30 thousand followers, FIAC FR 33 thousand followers, Artspace NY USA 217 thousand followers, Ai Weiwei « worldwide » 372 thousand followers, White Cube London UK 117 thousand followers, MOCA Los Angeles USA 243 thousand followers , Palazzo Grassi IT 29 thousand followers, Gagosian worldwide 398 thousand followers, Serpentine Galleries UK 150 thousand followers,
Fondation Louis Vuitton FR 30 thousand follower s, Drouot FR 9 thousand followers, Artcurial FR 10 thousand followers, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal CA 38 thousand followers, Arte FR/DE 1.14 million followers, Mucem FR 19 thousand followers, The Art Newspaper worldwide 379 thousand followers, Jeu de Paume FR 63 thousand followers, Pace Gallery worldwide 133 thousand followers, Musée des beaux-arts du Canada CA 17 thousand followers, Albertina Museum Autriche 16 thousand followers,
Memorial Art Gallery USA 35 thousand followers, Nelson Atkins Museum USA 47 thousand followers, Le Grand Palais FR 798 thousand followers, Palais de Tokyo FR 515 thousand followers, Jerry Saltz critique NY USA (Pulitzer prize) 511 thousand followers, Fondation Cartier FR 71 thousand followers, Kelly Crow (WSJ) USA 26 thousand followers, Valérie Duponchelle FR (critique at Le Figaro) 9 thousand followers, Judith Benhamou-Huet (critique and curator) 5 thousand followers, La Villette FR 15 thousand followers, Petit Palais FR 64 thousand followers, Biennale of Sydney AUS 25 thousand followers, Rockefeller Center NY USA 69 thousand followers, Roberta Smith USA (critique at the NYT) 39 thousand followers, Musée du Luxembourg FR 49 thousand followers…
The interaction of these prestigious accounts constitute a recommendation and approach that is normally acquired in the long run, for community managers are not accustomed.
These are not only prestigious, priceless recommendations, unheard of in the marketing world so far. But they are also dozens of millions of new potential customers, influential people with a high purchasing power on the Art Market, for Artprice and Artmarket to acquire.
Prominent international auction houses have fully understood the strength of Artprice’s and Artmarket’s social media and they entrust them with the promotion of their prestige auctions on a regular basis throughout the year.
www.artprice.com Copyright thierry Ehrmann 1987/2018
About Artprice:
Artprice is listed on the Eurolist by Euronext Paris, SRD long only and Euroclear: 7478 – Bloomberg: PRC – Reuters: ARTF.
Artprice celebrates its 20th birthday, editorial by thierry Ehrmann, founder and CEO of Artprice. https://www.actusnews.com/fr/ARTPRICE/cp/2017/10/04/artprice-celebrates-its-20th-birthday-editorial-by-thierry-ehrmann-founder-and-ceo-of-artprice
Dicover Artprice in video: https://www.artprice.com/video
Artprice is the global leader in art price and art index databanks. It has over 30 million indices and auction results covering more than 700,000 artists. Artprice Images(R) gives unlimited access to the largest Art Market resource in the world: a library of 126 million images or prints of artworks from the year 1700 to the present day, along with comments by Artprice’s art historians.
Artprice permanently enriches its databanks with information from 6,300 auctioneers and it publishes a constant flow of art market trends for the world’s principal news agencies and approximately 7,200 international press publications. For its 4,500,000 members, Artprice gives access to the world’s leading Standardised Marketplace for buying and selling art. Artprice is preparing its blockchain for the Art Market. It is BPI-labelled (scientific national French label).
Artprice’s Global Art Market Annual Report for 2017 published in March 2018: https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-art-market-in-2017
Artprice’s Contemporary Art Market Annual Report for 2017 – free access at https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-contemporary-art-market-report-2017
Artprice’s press releases: http://serveur.serveur.com/Press_Release/pressreleaseen.htm and https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom
Artmarket News:
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom & https://twitter.com/artmarketdotcom
https://www.facebook.com/artpricedotcom & https://plus.google.com/+Artpricedotcom/post
http://artmarketinsight.wordpress.com/
Discover the Alchemy and the universe of Artprice http://web.artprice.com/video, which headquarters are the famous Museum of Contemporary Art, the Abode of Chaos
The Contemporary Art Museum The Abode of Chaos on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/la.demeure.du.chaos.theabodeofchaos999
The Abode of Chaos/Demeure du Chaos Contemporary Art Museum by thierry Ehrmann,author, sculptor, artist, photographs https://www.flickr.com/photos/home_of_chaos/sets/72157
Contact ir@artprice.com
thierry Ehrmann : Artprice et Artmarket ont gagné sur les réseaux sociaux avec +590% de croissance sur le 2S 2017/1S2018 et 2,3 millions d’abonnés
Artprice avait pris l’engagement lors de son A.G. le 30 juin 2017 de prendre la 1e place en matière d’information sur le Marché de l’Art sur les réseaux sociaux où elle pesait 345 K d’abonnés. Pour réaliser cet objectif très ambitieux Artprice avec son entité Artmarket devaient conquérir plus d’un million d’abonnés à leurs publications sur la période 2S 2017/1S2018.
Pari réussi, en exactement 12 mois, au-delà de l’objectif avec 2,3 millions d’abonnés au 25 Juin 2018, avec 590% de croissance sur la période Juin 2017 / Juin 2018. Concernant l’Intranet chinois qui interdit les réseaux sociaux occidentaux, Artprice est cependant omniprésente en Chine avec son associé le groupe étatique chinois ARTRON / AMMA.
En effet de grands groupes internationaux cotés ont cru s’exonérer de la complexité des réseaux sociaux et subissent le retard fatal générant des préjudices économiques importants qui remettent en question leur position. Même avec un budget financier exceptionnel le retard accumulé ne peut pas être compensé du fait de l’architecture élaborée des réseaux sociaux. Certains groupes du S&P500 en sont des exemples probants.
Désormais l’empreinte sur les réseaux sociaux est l’un des paramètres primordiaux et vitaux pour qui veut préserver le capital entreprise et son avenir, avec bien évidemment, sa notoriété et visibilité à travers le Monde, ce qui est le cas d’Artprice en tant que Leader mondial de l’information sur le Marché de l’Art ainsi que sa Place de Marché Normalisée Artmarket.com .
C’est pour cette raison qu’Artprice a privilégié très tôt cet axe de communication, anticipant depuis longtemps le poids des réseaux sociaux dans son marketing, ses banques de données, ses équipes informatique et ses forces de ventes, forgeant chaque jour un peu plus son expérience dans les multiples réseaux sociaux pour générer des millions de nouveaux membres qualifiés pour les multiples abonnements payants à ses banques de données.
De plus, Artprice avait un budget limité qui lui a permis de sortir plus d’un million d’euros de résultat pour l’exercice 2017. Cette approche budgétaire est similaire pour 2018. C’est donc bien par la qualité de l’information unique au monde d’Artprice, sa notoriété et son ingéniosité informatique et humaine qui lui ont permis de gagner ce pari mondial avec un très faible budget passé en compte de charges.
Après la guerre sur les moteurs de recherches avec l’obtention de la pole position pour Artprice et Artmarket.com sur Google, il était nécessaire que la place de Leader mondial de l’information sur le Marché de l’Art se réplique sur les réseaux sociaux.
C’est chose faite, comme en atteste le bond de 590% de l’audience notamment sur le n°1 mondial Facebook, avec plus de 2,3 millions d’abonnés pour la page Artprice, ce qui la place parmi les pages les plus suivies au Monde. Pour information les pages de sociétés millionnaires en abonnés sur Facebook forment un club très restreint à l’échelle mondiale.
Sur Twitter, les tweets d’Artprice et d’Artmarket sont souvent retweetés ou likés par les acteurs les plus influents de la sphère mondiale du Marché de l’Art, ainsi que par les VIPs et Market Makers. Artistes, Musées, Galeries, Maisons de Ventes, Journalistes et Critiques d’Art etc. viennent, par leur engagement, propulser très positivement le nom d’Artprice sur leurs propres abonnés.
Atteindre de cette façon des millions d’amateurs, collectionneurs, professionnels de l’Art à travers le Monde économise un coût astronomique pour Artprice et renforce quotidiennement son empreinte numérique qui de plus est majorée par Google qui indexe uniquement les grands comptes certifiés des réseaux sociaux.
Les comptes Twitter certifiés Artprice et Artmarket ont selon les chiffres officiels Twitter dépassé 360 millions d’impressions sur une année mobile. Artprice et Artmarket comptent parmi leurs abonnés près de 100% des acteurs du Marché de l’Art quel que soit le pays.
Parmi les multiples comptes prestigieux twitter certifiés qui ont interagi (RT/ likes) avec les comptes twitter d’Artprice ou d’Artmarket certifiés, on note pour exemple sur un sondage représentant 3% de l’ensemble de ces comptes prestigieux:
Musée du Louvre FR avec 1,41 million abonnés, LACMA USA 1,11 million abonnés, Christie’s worldwide 110k abonnés, Sotheby’s worldwide 102k abonnés, Sotheby’s Institute USA 12k abonnés, Phillips Auctions worldwide 40k abonnés, Bonhams Auctions worldwide 41k abonnés, Van Gogh Museum Hollande 1,66 million abonnés, Guggenheim Museum NY USA 3,62 millions d’abonnés, Paul Getty Museum LA USA 3,23 millions d’abonnés, Whitney Museum NY USA 1,09 million abonnés,
Museum of Fine arts Boston usa 384k abonnés, Heritage Auction USA 58k abonnés, Louvre Abu Dhabi UAE 47k abonnés, Musée d’Orsay FR 680k abonnés , MAXXI IT 202k abonnés, Queens Museum NY USA 160k abonnés, Frieze Fairs London 156 k abonnés, Mory Art Museum Japan 162k abonnés, Le Figaro FR 2,95 millions abonnés, Centre Pompidou FR 1,04 million abonnés, Musée Hermitage Russie 1,02 million abonnés, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao ES 365k abonnés, Biennale di Venezia IT 710k abonnés,
San Francisco MOMA USA 643k abonnés, Brooklyn Museum NY USA 695k abonnés, Asian Art Museum USA 302k abonnés, Château de Versailles FR 450k abonnés, Musée Rodin FR 30k abonnés, FIAC FR 33k abonnés, Artspace NY USA 217k abonnés, Ai Weiwei « worldwide » 372k abonnés, White Cube London UK 117k abonnés, MOCA Los Angeles USA 243k abonnés, Palazzo Grassi IT 29k abonnés, Gagosian worldwide 398k abonnés, Serpentine Galleries UK 150k abonnés,
Fondation Louis Vuitton FR 30k abonnés, Drouot FR 9k abonnés, Artcurial FR 10k abonnés, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal CA 38k abonnés CA, Arte FR/DE 1,14 million abonnés, Mucem FR 19k abonnés, The Art Newspaper worldwide 379k abonnés, Jeu de Paume FR 63k abonnés, Pace Gallery worldwide 133k abonnés, Musée des beaux-arts du Canada CA 17k abonnés, Albertina Museum Autriche 16k abonnés,
Memorial Art Gallery USA 35k abonnés, Nelson Atkins Museum 47k USA abonnés, Le Grand Palais FR 798k abonnés, Palais de Tokyo FR 515k abonnés, Jerry Saltz critique NY USA (Prix Pulitzer) 511k abonnés, Fondation Cartier FR 71k abonnés, Kelly Crow (WSJ) USA 26k abonnés, Valérie Duponchelle FR Critique Le Figaro 9k abonnés, Judith Benhamou-Huet Critique et Curatrice 5k abonnés, La Villette FR 15k abonnés, Petit Palais FR 64k abonnés, Biennale of Sydney AUS 25k abonnés, Rockefeller Center NY USA 69k abonnés, Roberta Smith USA Critique NYT 39k abonnés, Musée du Luxembourg FR 49k abonnés …
L’interaction de ces comptes prestigieux constitue bien une recommandation et une adhésion très longue à conquérir car leurs auteurs en sont très peu coutumiers voire pas du tout.
Au-delà de ses recommandations prestigieuses qui n’ont pas de prix et qui n’existent pas dans le monde du marketing, ce sont bien des dizaines de millions de nouveaux clients influents à haut pouvoir d’achat sur la Marché de l’Art qu’Artprice et Artmarket peuvent saisir.
A propos d’Artprice :
Artprice est cotée sur Eurolist by Euronext Paris, SRD long only et Euroclear : 7478 – Bloomberg : PRC – Reuters : ARTF.
Découvrir Artprice en vidéo : https://fr.artprice.com/video
Artprice est le Leader mondial des banques de données sur la cotation et les indices de l’Art avec plus de 30 millions d’indices et résultats de ventes couvrant plus de 700 000 Artistes. Artprice Images® permet un accès illimité au plus grand fonds du Marché de l’Art au monde, bibliothèque constituée de 126 millions d’images ou gravures d’oeuvres d’Art de 1700 à nos jours commentées par ses historiens.
Artprice enrichit en permanence ses banques de données en provenance de 6300 Maisons de Ventes et publie en continu les tendances du Marché de l’Art pour les principales agences et 7200 titres de presse dans le monde. Artprice met à la disposition de ses 4,5 millions de membres (members log in), les annonces déposées par ses Membres, qui constituent désormais la première Place de Marché Normalisée® mondiale pour acheter et vendre des oeuvres d’Art à prix fixe ou aux enchères (enchères réglementées par les alinéas 2 et 3 de l’article L 321.3 du code du commerce). Artprice labellisée par le BPI développe son projet de Blockchain sur le Marché de l’Art.
Le Rapport Annuel Artprice du Marché de l’Art mondial 2017 publié en mars 2018 :
https://fr.artprice.com/artprice-reports/le-marche-de-lart-en-2017
Le rapport du Marché de l’Art Contemporain 2017 d’Artprice :
https://fr.artprice.com/artprice-reports/le-marche-de-lart-contemporain-2017
Sommaire des communiqués d’Artprice :
http://serveur.serveur.com/press_release/pressreleasefr.htm
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom
Suivre en temps réel toute l’actualité du Marché de l’Art avec Artprice sur Facebook, Google+ Twitter :
https://www.facebook.com/artpricedotcom 2,3 millions d’abonnés
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom
https://twitter.com/artmarketdotcom
https://artmarketinsight.wordpress.com/
Découvrir l’alchimie et l’univers d’Artprice http://web.artprice.com/video dont le siège social est le célèbre Musée d’art contemporain Abode of Chaos / Demeure du Chaos 2,7 millions d’abonnés : http://goo.gl/zJssd https://vimeo.com/124643720
Musée d’Art Contemporain siège social d’Artprice :
https://www.facebook.com/la.demeure.du.chaos.theabodeofchaos999
thierry Ehrmann – Voyage au bout de la nuit
Fin dialecticien, homme d’une grande spiritualité, artiste plasticien féru de l’histoire de l’art, Thierry Ehrmann a érigé en deux décennies le leader mondial de l’information sur le marché de l’art (4,5 millions de membres dans 72 pays). Passionné et passionnant, le président directeur général d’Artprice.com nous retrace son parcours atypique. Entretien fleuve. (Entreprendre.fr)
thierry Ehrmann
Que retenez-vous de votre jeunesse ?
Mon enfance fut marquée par une formation chez les jésuites nommés les soldats de Dieu, puis chez les dominicains, redoutables négociateurs attestant d’un contournement intellectuel extrêmement rare et aiguisé. Mon enfance fut d’autant plus particulière que mon père, ancien polytechnicien à la retraite, docteur en droit et grand croyant, était un membre de l’Opus Dei influent.
Après Vatican II, l’Église ayant décidé de mettre fin aux biens ostentatoires, mon père avait été mandaté par le Vatican pour fermer les écoles princières, les palaces et autres lieux vains et inutiles qui ne représentaient plus l’esprit qui soufflait dans la foulée de Vatican II. Nous avons voyagé aux 4 coins du monde pour mettre un terme à ces lieux qui appartenaient à l’Eglise. J’ai ainsi pu découvrir le monde, et observer qu’à l’époque, le latin était la langue des affaires et non l’anglais.
J’ai eu l’occasion de faire le tour du monde une première fois durant mon enfance, puis une seconde fois entre 16 et 20 ans. J’ai écumé tous les pays à l’exception de 2 ou 3 pays exotiques.
Quels enseignements tirez-vous de ces voyages ?
Les voyages sont vains et inutiles. Le plus long voyage est celui que l’on fait dans sa tête. Au terme de 20 ans de démarche analytique freudienne, suivis de 8 ans de démarche lacanienne, je suis convaincu que le voyage physique est une fuite en avant dans laquelle on s’exile avec ses névroses et ses psychoses. C’est précisément l’histoire des miroirs grossissants, la fuite à l’extérieur est un véritable syndrome de Stendhal qui ne fait qu’amplifier le phénomène.
Si les évangiles de Luc et Matthieu affirment « nul n’est prophète en son pays », pour autant, nous sommes le fruit d’une éducation, d’une culture et d’un climat. C’est sur nos terres que nous nous faisons, nous défaisons et nous reconstruisons. Je n’ai jamais vu d’exil heureux. J’ai eu la chance de rencontrer des monstres puissants qui ont dominé le XXème siècle et qui pour certains se sont éteints depuis. J’en ai conclu que tout exil est soumis à un éternel retour.
Celui qui s’isole en haut de la montagne ne cherche que le retour à l’exil, l’acte de solitude correspondant à la volonté de mieux revenir. Pour moi, le mythe de l’ermite n’existe pas, l’ermite est quelqu’un qui prépare son retour en scène, il n’est un mythe qu’en projection de son futur retour. Nous devons affronter nos démons frontalement sous peine qu’ils reviennent toujours.
Quel est votre moteur dans la vie ?
La passion pour l’art que je mets dans Artprice et le musée que j’ai fondé. Je suis artiste plasticien inscrit à la Maison des Artistes depuis 35 ans. Dès 1999, j’ai voulu faire vivre mes œuvres dans le premier musée privé immatriculé au RCS : Le Musée L’OrgAne, que j’ai érigé comme siège social d’Artprice, coté sur le marché réglementé. Ma passion pour l’histoire de l’art, en 20 ans, m’a servie à bâtir le Leader mondial de l’information sur le Marché de l’Art.
Ce travail titanesque fut synthétisé par la Ministre de la Culture lors de sa visite chez Artprice par cette phrase « Vous vous êtes subrogé en lieu et place à une mission supra-étatique de conservation de l’histoire du marché de l’art ». En effet, il est nécessaire de poser quelques chiffres qui démontrent le travail herculéen réalisé : Artprice est devenue en 20 ans le Leader mondial des banques de données sur la cotation et les indices de l’Art avec plus de 30 millions d’indices et résultats de ventes couvrant plus de 700 000 Artistes.
Avec Artprice Images, elle permet un accès illimité au plus grand fonds du Marché de l’Art au monde, bibliothèque constituée de 126 millions d’images ou gravures d’œuvres d’Art, de 1700 à nos jours, commentées par ses historiens.
Au quotidien, Artprice enrichit en permanence ses banques de données en provenance de 6300 Maisons de Ventes et publie en continu les tendances du Marché de l’Art pour les principales agences et 7200 titres de presse dans le monde. Ce n’est pas pour rien qu’Artprice compte 4,5 millions de membres dans 72 pays.
En quoi avez-vous introduit une profonde révolution dans le marché de l’art ?
Raymonde Moulin, célèbre sociologue et historienne de l’art, surnommée « la Papesse », m’a interpellé il y a une dizaine d’années en m’indiquant qu’Artprice avait définitivement modifié l’histoire du marché de l’art de manière irrévocable en s’inscrivant elle-même dans l’histoire de l’art. Effectivement, on note depuis 20 ans une mutation sans pareil. Laissons parler les chiffres quelques secondes.
Les leviers d’une telle mutation passent par la facilité d’accès aux informations sur le Marché de l’Art, la dématérialisation des ventes – le tout sur Internet avec 98% des acteurs connectés- la financiarisation du marché, l’accroissement des consommateurs d’art (de 500 000 à l’après-guerre à 90 millions en 2017), leur rajeunissement, l’extension du marché à toute la Grande Asie, à la zone Pacifique, à l’ Inde, à l’Afrique du Sud, au Moyen-Orient et à l’Amérique du Sud.
Cette mutation passe aussi par l’industrie muséale qui est devenue une réalité économique mondiale au XXIème siècle. En effet, il s’est construit plus de Musées entre 2000 et 2014 que durant tous les XIXème et XXème siècles, soit 700 nouveaux musées par an. Cette industrie dévoreuse de pièces muséales est l’un des facteurs primordiaux de la croissance spectaculaire du Marché de l’Art. Le Marché de l’Art est désormais mature et liquide.
Le Marché de l’Art est devenu un marché efficient, historique, mondial et dont la capacité à résister aux crises économiques et géopolitiques n’est plus à démontrer. Il surperforme depuis 18 ans les principaux marchés de placement de manière incontestable.
Vous avez fondé votre musée, au cœur-même d’Artprice qui analyse le marché de l’art. Que s’apportent-ils mutuellement ?
Aujourd’hui, Le Musée d’Art Contemporain L’Organe qui gère la Demeure du Chaos / Abode of Chaos compte 5 400 de mes œuvres, principalement des sculptures monumentales de plusieurs dizaines, voire centaines de tonnes, dont les thèmes abordent notre siècle tragique et somptueux.
Mes 5 400 œuvres baignent dans une totale alchimie avec Artprice et le Groupe Serveur, pionnier de l’Internet et des banques de données depuis 1987. Il est évident qu’Artprice, en tant que Leader mondial de l’information sur le Marché de l’Art ne pouvait rêver mieux que d’avoir comme siège social le célèbre Musée d’Art Contemporain L’Organe, gérant la Demeure du Chaos. Il faut préciser que ce musée est classé en région Rhône-Alpes, de manière incontestable, comme premier musée d’art contemporain privé, avec 120 000 visiteurs par an, dont 25 % hors France.
Quel est votre rapport à la franc-maçonnerie ?
J’ai eu l’opportunité d’y rentrer très jeune – à l’âge de 23 ans – et de devenir membre de la Grande Loge Nationale de France. Cette loge déiste me semblait intéressante car porteuse d’une philosophie assez ouverte. On nous appelait les « Anglais » car nous dépendions de la Grande Loge de Londres ou encore les « Romains.
J’ai été l’un des premiers à aborder le thème dans un Envoyé spécial sur France 2 qui m‘était consacré. J’ai 32 ans de loge et je dois dire qu’avec le recul, pour avoir visité de multiples courants ésotériques à travers le monde, je dois admettre que la franc-maçonnerie est le modèle philosophique le plus stable, le plus humain, et qui, contrairement à ce que l’on croit, peut par son concours amener aux grandes questions éthiques de ce siècle.
Lorsqu’on possède un mandat public, nous devons pratiquer la méthode anglo-saxonne de déclarer notre appartenance afin d’éviter les fantasmes des fraternels dévoyés et nous permettre au contraire de nos ouvrir à des réceptions d’air plein d’humanisme et de talents.
Mon père, polytechnicien et Docteur en Droit, comme moi-même et mes deux fils avons une maladie neurodégénératives très importante et ma démarche depuis 32 ans par le temple et les voyages initiatiques me permettent d’assumer ces terribles douleurs et de rester les yeux ouverts vers le ciel toujours curieux et émerveillés de ce nouveau monde.
Qu’entendez-vous par visite initiatique ?
J’ai suivi par plaisir un cursus universitaire de théologie qui m’a permis d’étudier différentes religions et notamment la religion juive. J’ai pu échanger avec le Rav Pinto, tout en étant goy et catholique. Un de mes meilleurs amis, décédé depuis, était un grand psychiatre juif. Cet homme brillant a sombré dans la folie et est devenu écrivain et ermite en Israël.
Son parcours était captivant car il avait étudié la Torah, le Talmud et le Zohar, que l’on retrouve dans les loges maçonniques haut gradées. Je m’imagine à la place de l’autre et ce qu’est l’autre. C’est une de mes méthodes de gouvernance dans la mesure où je ne donne jamais un seul ordre. Je pense que donner un ordre affaiblit considérablement, l’ordre étant une perte de sens.
En Asie, l’ordre n’existe pas, le regard suffit à imprimer ou à donner le sens même dans lequel il faut aller. J’ai toujours eu des passerelles absolument transparentes entre ma vie privée et ma vie professionnelle. J’admire ou je suis dubitatif en fonction des jours des gens qui cloisonnent ces deux univers. Lorsque l’on est passionné, il est difficile, voire impossible, de conserver cette étanchéité.
J’ai toujours cultivé une totale transparence avec mes fils qui ont désormais plus de 30 ans en provoquant très rapidement le meurtre du père. Le père est aussi quelqu’un qui a ses fragilités, ses névroses… Mes enfants ne sont pas la continuité de moi, ils ont un parcours authentique, singulier, et il n’existe aucune projection.
Quel regard portez-vous sur l’Europe ?
Je lisais dernièrement les écrits de Nicolas Baverez sur la décadence de L’Occident et le projet européen. Dans les années 80, j’avais une cinquantaine de sociétés dont chacune portait le préfixe « Europ » (Europe Numéris, Europe Juris, etc). J’ai beaucoup cru au projet européen de Jean Monet mais je considère aujourd’hui que c’est la plus grande catastrophe industrielle, politique et économique.
Nous avons fait l’Europe en dépit du bon sens et nous avons gâché quelque chose d’historique qui avait dix millions d’existence. Le traité de Lisbonne signé en 2007 est pitoyable, c’est un traité que l’on signe en fin de nuit lorsque les parties sont usées et souhaitent en finir. J’ai découvert, si l’on compte les grandes régions, que c’est en réalité 108 parties qui doivent s’accorder lorsqu’il y a une adoption à prendre.
Il est déjà extrêmement difficile d’obtenir l’accord de tous les sociétaires ou tous les mandataires au sein d’une holding, alors imaginez ce qu’il en est pour la grande maison Europe. Le système était voué à l’échec.
Comment auriez-vous imaginé l’Europe ?
J’aurais imaginé une Europe médiévale organisée en régions afin de favoriser une transversalité. Il aurait fallu mettre un terme en France à ce jacobinisme colbertiste ou ce jacobinisme high-tech qui consiste à tout concentrer. La concentration constitue pour moi une énorme erreur. L’Europe aurait pu nous aider à réaliser l’Europe des régions, porteuse de sens et productive. Rappelons à titre d’exemple que la région Rhône-Alpes est plus grande que la Suisse et représente environ 11,6 % du PIB français. Nous avons des capacités importantes mais il existe une perte d’énergie énorme.
J’imagine une Europe généreuse. L’Europe avait une très belle histoire mais elle s’est vidée de son sens, elle n’est pas atlantiste, on ne peut pas même parler d’une Europe de l’OTAN. Cette Europe a tout perdu jusqu’à la vision de ses fondateurs qui la projetaient de l’Atlantique à l’Oural avec une ouverture vers l’Ukraine. Il était question d’une Europe ouverte s’étendant naturellement jusqu’à Moscou. Les Russes sont furieusement occidentaux. Concernant la Turquie, bien qu’éprouvant un profond respect pour l’Empire ottoman et la Sublime Porte, nous devons convenir qu’aujourd’hui, la Turquie est tout sauf laïque.
L’idée, à travers l’Europe, aurait été de simplifier le tout en imaginant un marché unique dans lequel on essaye de parler la même langue et le même droit des contrats. Le droit accompagne la culture, il est la pacification de la guerre. On dit communément que lorsque les armes se taisent, le droit parle. Lorsque les hommes contractent, c’est que la guerre a cessé et qu’ils échangent. Le droit a donc une valeur capitale mais au lieu de faire un droit européen, on s’est arrangé pour produire des directives internes qui devenaient un quatrième degré de juridiction propre à notre pays.
Après avoir rédigé de multiples rapports, commission sénatoriale etc, j’ai décidé de cesser toute navette parlementaire ou sénatoriale. J’ai vu des choses hallucinantes qui visaient à renforcer notre protectionnisme et à attiser le sentiment anti-européen. L’idée était de faire en sorte d’embêter les autres par tous les moyens. La réforme des ventes publiques est un exemple parlant, elle a fait l’objet d’une première réforme en 2011 avant d’être de nouveau amendée, nous en sommes à présent à la modification de la réforme exposant trois.
Face à l’absence d’effort des différents acteurs, l’Europe est devenue ce monstre administratif dans lequel on ne connaît pratiquement aucun commissaire. Le Tafta compte entre 800 et 900 négociateurs, alors que l’Europe n’en dispose que d’une quarantaine. La puissance de feu joue énormément. C’est dommage car nous avions un très beau projet mais il est grand temps d’arrêter les frais.
Quelle révolution majeure sommes-nous en train de vivre ?
Nous sommes désormais passés à une phase de mondialisation que les gens n’ont pas vu venir et anticipée. Nous sommes dans un changement de paradigme qui se produit environ tous les 3 ou 4 siècles, nous assistons à une véritable compression de l’espace-temps. J’ai eu la chance d’avoir Paul Virilio comme intervenant, ce dernier a beaucoup travaillé sur la notion d’accident et d’espace-temps. Une civilisation était considérée comme supérieure à une autre lorsqu’elle allait plus vite.
Rome a eu la suprématie sur Athènes car ils annonçaient le début ou la fin d’une guerre grâce à un cavalier alors que l’autre était encore à pied. Nous sommes arrivés à une optimisation absolue de la notion d’espace-temps et à une telle célérité qu’aujourd’hui, la notion même de logistique ne vaut plus rien : un container transporté entre Shanghai et le Havre coûte 400 dollars.
La mondialisation est une réalité et Internet l’a confirmé. Le législateur, nos élus et tous les États nations n’avaient pas réellement réfléchi au problème de la mondialisation.
Comment construire une histoire dans une société de l’immédiateté ?
Twitter a introduit la génération 280 caractères. Robert de Vogüé, grand financier entre autres anciennement chez JPMorgan et KBC Bank me confiait que désormais, les gens ne lisent plus que le titre dans les communications financières. Il existe une certaine facilité et lâcheté que de résumer et réduire à un titre un flux d’information constant et régulier même s’il est évident que les gens ne peuvent pas tout absorber. Trop d’information tue l’information et désormais la notion de courage et de prise de risque n’existent plus. Certains paysans ont plus de bon sens que des polytechniciens ou des énarques et sont parfois capables d’articuler un raisonnement solide et bien étayé que des gens très diplômés ne sont pas capables de conduire.
Quelles sont les spécificités de la Chine ?
Nous étions associés avec l’état chinois que beaucoup taxent de « démocrature ». Cela fait 30 ans que nous travaillons avec la Chine et j’ai réfléchi significativement au sujet. Bon nombre de personnes ont des idées reçues sur la Chine mais elle est cependant la première puissance mondiale et il ne faut pas oublier que la Chine a 7 000 ans d’ancienneté durant lesquels ils ont eu cette position au coude-à-coude avec l’Inde.
Gandhi a commis l’énorme erreur de créer une sorte d’autonomie propre à l’Inde. Aujourd’hui, l’Inde accuse un retard de 30 ans dans la mondialisation et est complètement en marge. Si l’Inde est prétendument la plus grande démocratie, il n’en demeure pas moins que les castes persistent, que la corruption perdure et que c’est un pays à des années-lumière de la modernité.
Le coup de génie des Chinois consiste à avoir fait de l’Inde l’atelier du monde. Grand nombre de mes amis insistent sur le fait que lorsque Chine arrivera à 700-800 dollars de salaire moyen pour les cadres – ce qui est désormais le cas – elle-même mettrait un genou et rentrerait dans une logique occidentale.
La Chine, dont le pragmatisme est sans égal, a trouvé l’Inde comme atelier du monde, la Chine devenant non plus l’usine du monde mais les ateliers de recherche et développement du monde. Ils se sont ainsi assurés une certitude pendant pratiquement 20 ans et ont pris le contrôle de la zone grande Asie : de Singapour à la Corée, au Vietnam, à la Birmanie… La Chine s’inscrit dans une logique de suprématie absolue.
Par nature, celui qui envahit – le barbare – amène également une forme de culture même si cela se fait dans le sang et la violence. La culture des barbares a toujours amené du sang nouveau et a permis au fil des siècles de régénérer et modifier les royaumes et les comtés. Le cas de la Chine est assez extraordinaire et unique au monde.
La Chine a toujours sinoïsé l’ennemi et fait en sorte, quelques soient les invasions, que les barbares deviennent de culture chinoise. La Chine n’a jamais envahi quiconque à l’exception du Vietnam mais pour des raisons plus complexes et ils n’ont jamais eu de flottes de guerre. Leur vraie force aujourd’hui est d’être toujours dans cette même logique. Ils ont une compréhension occidentale de la mondialisation, de l’économie et de l’OMC mais ils ont la capacité d’être un tout.
J’ai rencontré des opposants au régime mais ils faisaient cependant tout pour la mère patrie. On ne se rend pas compte de la force extraordinaire de la diaspora chinoise, ils arrivent à se projeter jusqu’à la quatrième ou la cinquième génération alors que nous ne dépassons pas les deux générations. Nicolas Baverez indiquait que les démocratures ont la chance ne pas céder à la facilité de la démocratie qui consiste à aller chercher des voix juste avant les élections et de légiférer et réglementer à tour de bras pour satisfaire l’opinion du dernier fait divers.
Comment expliquez-vous la déconstruction de notre démocratie ?
Juriste de père en fils depuis des générations, je suis atterré par cette profonde déconstruction alors que le droit français était reconnu comme l’un des meilleurs droits au monde. Nous sommes en implosion totale, de nouveaux textes viennent massacrer les anciens et les codes de procédures pénales et civiles s’entrechoquent. Nous avons sabordé trois siècles de construction intellectuelle du droit. Le droit est à la fois littéraire et mathématiques, il est l’épreuve du temps.
Comment imaginez-vous l’avenir ?
Désormais, l’infiniment subsidiaire est devenu le principal et l’élément focalisant est devenu l’infiniment subsidiaire. C’est toute l’histoire de la presse d’aujourd’hui. Nous avons mis un terme à l’état d’urgence, dont acte. Nous avons fait un certain nombre de codes de procédures et de droit pénal de sorte qu’aujourd’hui, nous nous situons au-delà de la plupart des dictatures en matière de droit.
Nous évoluons dans une société où les juges ont perdu tout contrôle, même le procureur, qui est censé être le chef de la police, est écarté de nombreuses procédures. Le célèbre écrivain Jean Rostand déclarait être optimiste quant à l’avenir du pessimisme. Je trouve cela dommage car nous avons tout pour être heureux : jamais la science n’a été aussi loin, jamais nous n’avons franchi de telles limites en termes de recherches et de découvertes et nous avons du bonheur à amener à l’humanité.
L’homme dispose d’outils et il est presque sur la marche du temple divin : nous savons lire les lignes de l’ADN, l’intelligence artificielle est en pleine essor et nous avons une maîtrise et une réponse à beaucoup de nos questions existentielles alors que nous sommes dans un contexte catastrophique.
Qu’est-il en train de se jouer sur le plan « historique » ?
Nous nous inscrivons dans un contexte de mondialisation mais pour autant, nous refusons de comprendre les articulations de l’histoire et de dénouer leur complexité en privilégiant une lecture simpliste et définitivement manichéenne.
A mon sens, les attentats du 11 septembre incarnent un nouveau point de départ l’ouverture du 21ème siècle. Les ruines du 11 septembre ne s’adressent pas uniquement aux Américains mais également Européens. Francis Fukuyama avait déclaré avant de se rétracter que la chute du mur de Berlin consacrait la « fin de l’histoire », et que la démocratie devenait perpétuelle. Cette théorie tuait l’idée même d’histoire dans ce qu’elle a de violent et d’impromptu. L’histoire est par nature soudaine et non prévisible. Le 11 septembre fut un événement soudain et non prévisible qui nous a ramenés à la réalité selon laquelle l’histoire peut exploser à tout moment. Le 11 septembre marque la défaite de l’Occident et de notre suprématie. L’Occident s’est quasiment tout arrogé au cours du XXème siècle, la démocratie, le bon goût, l’art… Si l’on considère l’Histoire, qu’est-ce qu’un siècle sur 6000 ou 7000 ans d’humanité ?
Quelle est la gravité de la situation dans laquelle se trouve la France ?
Si l’Europe est malade au sens des grands continents, je pense que la France est l’un des pays les plus malades d’Europe. Le pays est dans une déconstruction beaucoup plus grave que l’on ne l’imagine et on se refuse à voir les réalités en face.
Aujourd’hui, l’ascenseur républicain est cassé mais surtout science et progrès ne riment plus avec bonheur, peut-être pour la première fois dans l’humanité. Le progrès était toujours synonyme de source de bonheur alors que désormais, ce n’est plus le cas, il devient source de flicage, et plus personne ne pose des barrières.
Je connais très intimement la culture cyberpunk et la culture de la science-fiction que l’on a ensuite désigné par films d’anticipation. J’ai une cinémathèque d’environ 50 à 60 000 films : des courts métrages, des films d’essai, des tentatives cinématographiques avortées, j’ai même récupéré des films qui ne sont jamais sortis.
Depuis pratiquement 10 ans, plus aucun film de science-fiction ne sort car tout a été pensé et que désormais la réalité a dépassé la fiction. La notion de déplacement dans l’espace-temps est la seule chose qui appartient encore au domaine de la science-fiction, il est étudié mais pour l’heure, il n’a encore été réalisé qu’à travers des électrons.
En dehors de cela, tout a déjà été traité. Mon père disait que Jules Verne avait été le premier auteur de science-fiction. Je pars du principe que tout ce que l’on écrit en projection et en scénario appartient déjà au domaine de l’acquis. Da Vinci désignait l’art comme « une chose mentale » (cosa mentale). Il m’arrive souvent de me faire violence dans mes œuvres, je vois le volume, je le modélise et ensuite il faut incarner ce volume parce qu’on est humain. On ne peut penser que ce qui existe.
L’intelligence artificielle est-elle un danger ?
L’intelligence artificielle existe en réalité depuis 30 ans, les établissements bancaires utilisaient déjà des algorithmes, sans parler du THF… Les outils d’aide à la décision, le datamining et la business intelligence existent depuis longtemps.
Arrêtons de galvauder et de diaboliser l’intelligence artificielle, nous avons presque le sentiment que nous accouchons d’une nouvelle religion alors qu’elle existe depuis fort longtemps.
En quoi et comment votre groupe a-t-il toujours été avant-gardiste ?
Nous avons beaucoup d’ingénieurs et de chercheurs étrangers au sein de notre groupe qui cherchent à partir. Je les aide à repartir dans leur pays d’origine, ou là où ils souhaitent s’expatrier. À l’époque, je prenais des participations, non pas à des fins capitalistiques, mais pour les soutenir en leur apportant la mise de départ. Nous avons ainsi pu disposer de correspondants dans le monde entier, que cela soit dans les pays de l’Est, en Israël ou au Canada.
Nous étions sur Internet dès 1985. Nous avons toujours eu 10 ans d’avance dans le groupe avec le souci permanent de maintenir cette avance en ayant une double lecture dichotomique. Nous nous interrogeons d’un côté sur ce qui va se passer dans 5 ou 10 ans et de façon concomitante sur ce qui peut permettre de réaliser concrètement des fonds propres ou du résultat net afin de ressourcer ce qui est dévoreur de fonds propres.
La R&D requiert par nature des fonds de roulement positifs. Internet a introduit la mondialisation et tout peut se dématérialiser. Si on se réfère au théorème de Pythagore selon lequel tout est nombre à l’exception de l’âme et de l’émotion, on peut donc dématérialiser pratiquement 99 % de notre civilisation. Il est évident que tout va migrer vers la révolution numérique dont Internet est le principal support mais pour autant, on tend vers le « glocal » combinant simultanément le local et le global.
Nous avons beaucoup de marchés locaux et nous étudions sur Internet tout ce qui concerne les marchés mondiaux depuis la nuit des temps, y compris le marché de l’art qui ne peut fonctionner que de manière mondiale comme les marchés financiers ou les matières premières. Nous avons toujours une approche historique, théorique, scientifique et aussi très pragmatique dans la création de société ex nihilo.
Artprice launches its “blue-chip” Art Market index, Artprice100®, designed for financiers and investors
Artprice’s Global Index® shows an average value increase for artworks of +30% since the index was started 20 years ago. Although this is an appreciable performance particularly at a time when central banks’ interest rates are close to zero in the United States (FED) and negative in Europe (ECB), if we focus uniquely on the most stable segment of the market, we find a much more impressive value accretion.
Thierry Ehrmann, founder and CEO of Artprice, said “Artprice’s econometrics department has created a new index that ignores the most volatile artists (those most subject to the price impact of fashion and speculation) and focuses exclusively on the art market’s “blue-chip” artists. This new index, Artprice100®, shows that art is an extremely competitive financial investment over the longer term.”
Artprice’s new Artprice100® scientific index is subject to IPR protection and represents a major new weapon in Artprice’s commercial arsenal as World Leader in Art Market Information.
PRINCIPLE
The objective of Artprice’s new Artprice100® index is to monitor and quantify the art market’s value accretion by focusing on its most stable elements. This new scientific index is a new tool in Artprice’s panoply of proprietary decision-support tools. In effect, the Artprice100® index represents an unavoidable new benchmark in a financial world constantly searching for new investment opportunities in efficient markets.
The creation of the Artprice100® index is a response to a recurring demand from Artprice’s financial and banking institution customers, particularly in the Private Banking segment, who need a reliable and durable benchmark that does not require specialist knowledge of the Art Market from its user.
With the Artprice100®, the Art Market – universally considered an alternative to traditional financial investments – now has a benchmark comparable to the world’s major stock indices like the S&P 500, the FTSE 100, the CAC 40, the DAX and the NIKKEI 225. It is composed using the same general principles for the construction of these indices: it focuses on the Art Market’s fundamental artists and takes into account their relative weight and importance.
COMPOSITION
The composition of the Artprice100® is adjusted by a scientific committee every 1st January to reflect the evolution of the Art Market. The index essentially identifies the 100 top-performing artists at auction over the previous five years who satisfy a key liquidity criterion (at least ten works of comparable quality sold each year). The weight of each artist is proportional to his/her annual auction turnover over the relevant period.
Thus, starting from 1 January 2000 – the Artprice100®’s reference year – an investment is made on the 100 artists whose auction results are the most regular (constant) and the highest (in turnover terms) during the previous five years (i.e. 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 and 1999). The relative weight of each of the 100 artists is detailed in Appendix 1.
The composition of the index does not change during the year. Therefore, the overall value of the Artprice100® evolves according to the individual average performances of each artist in the portfolio, adjusted according to his or her weight within the portfolio.
FINANCIAL PERFORMANCES
In 2000, the value of the Artprice100® increased by 10.9%. Thus, for an initial investment of $100, the value of this portfolio already reached $110.9 by the end of 2000.
The contribution of each artist to this result provides additional information. For example, in 2000, the artist Pablo Picasso had a 16% weighting in the portfolio. During that year, his auction performance contracted by 9%. Therefore, the initial $16 invested in Pablo Picasso (16% of $100) was valued, at 31 December 2000, at $14.6.
Fortunately, the portfolio’s diversification helped offset Pablo Picasso’s negative performance in 2000. So, for example, that year saw strong positive performances for Robert Rauschenberg (+59%), Antoni Tapies (+48%), René Magritte (+18%), allowing the Artprice100® index to post a quite remarkable performance for the portfolio as a whole.
Over the long term, the performance of the Artprice100® largely exceeds that of Artprice’s Global Index and of the US stock market, as represented by the S&P 500.
The Artprice100® index
Base 100 at 1 January 2000
INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCES
The Artprice100® index provides essential information since its very composition reflects the progressive evolution of the Art market. The artists included each year in the Top 100 are the market’s most important artists, weighted for their average performances over the previous five years.
This purely objective criterion allows identification of the most stable segment of the Art Market with a built-in evolution mechanism (annual adjustment). In fact, the new index relies on a huge mass of market information (Artprice’s Big Data) and eliminates possible blind spots that might escape the Index’s Scientific Council by analysing repeat sales and auction results from all over the planet. With its intranet connecting it with more than 6,300 Auction Houses, Artprice is the only organisation in the world that can process this data and produce an index based on a highly complex series of calculations.
The composition of the Artprice100® for the years 2000 and 2017 is provided in the Appendices. From 2016 to 2017, four artists joined the index and four left (as with stock indices):
Joiners (incoming): Agnes Martin, Francis Picabia, Barbara Hepworth, Michelangelo Pistoletto
Leavers (outgoing): Giorgio De Chirico, Alexej von Jawlensky, Paul Klee, Cindy Sherman
This gradual transformation of the 100 artists within the Artprice100® is striking over the long term. For example, in 2000, there was only one Chinese artist in this list (Zhang Daqian) compared with 18 in 2017.
CONCLUSION
Over 18 years, the Artprice100® grew by 360%, generating an average annual return of 8.9%. This revolutionary approach to investment in the Art Market allows the financial and investment community to apprehend the Art Market via the art of “index management”, a possibility that was hitherto non-existent. This average annual return of 8.9% represents the profitability of the art market’s most stable segment.
It proves once again that a relatively well-diversified art portfolio, constructed on the basis of a simple and non-aggressive acquisition strategy, has a genuine economic raison d’être, quite apart from the non-pecuniary benefits of collecting art.
Over the last 20 years, the art market has massively increased in liquidity and has grown to now be widely appreciated as a genuinely efficient market to which Artprice – as world leader – has substantially contributed.
Via its contacts in the financial sphere, Artprice aims to get its Artprice100® index and derivative products rapidly included in the standard financial newsflow packages used in trading rooms around the world.
Appendix 1
Composition of the Artprice100® in 2000
Rank – Artist – Weight
1 – Pablo PICASSO – 16.1%
2 – Claude MONET – 7.8%
3 – Paul CÉZANNE – 5.3%
4 – Pierre-Auguste RENOIR – 4.7%
5 – Edgar DEGAS – 3.9%
6 – Henri MATISSE – 2.9%
7 – Marc CHAGALL – 2.8%
8 – Amedeo MODIGLIANI – 2.8%
9 – Andy WARHOL – 2.2%
10 – Joan MIRO – 2.0%
11 – Camille PISSARRO – 1.7%
12 – Fernand LÉGER – 1.7%
13 – René MAGRITTE – 1.6%
14 – Henry MOORE – 1.4%
15 – Alberto GIACOMETTI – 1.3%
16 – Auguste RODIN – 1.2%
17 – Georges BRAQUE – 1.1%
18 – Pierre BONNARD – 1.1%
19 – Jean DUBUFFET – 1.1%
20 – Kees VAN DONGEN – 1.0%
21 – Paul GAUGUIN – 1.0%
22 – Jasper JOHNS – 1.0%
23 – Wassily KANDINSKY – 1.0%
24 – Paul KLEE – 0.9%
25 – Alexander CALDER – 0.9%
26 – Alfred James MUNNINGS – 0.9%
27 – Alfred SISLEY – 0.9%
28 – Maurice DE VLAMINCK – 0.9%
29 – Gerhard RICHTER – 0.8%
30 – Édouard VUILLARD – 0.8%
31 – Willem DE KOONING – 0.8%
32 – Jean-Michel BASQUIAT – 0.8%
33 – Emil NOLDE – 0.8%
34 – Roy LICHTENSTEIN – 0.8%
35 – Giorgio MORANDI – 0.8%
36 – Egon SCHIELE – 0.7%
37 – Pieter II BRUEGHEL – 0.7%
38 – Salvador DALI – 0.7%
39 – Lucio FONTANA – 0.7%
40 – Juan GRIS – 0.6%
41 – Giorgio DE CHIRICO – 0.6%
42 – Ernst Ludwig KIRCHNER – 0.6%
43 – Maurice UTRILLO – 0.6%
44 – Raoul DUFY – 0.6%
45 – Eugène BOUDIN – 0.6%
46 – Camille Jean-Baptiste COROT – 0.5%
47 – Paul SIGNAC – 0.5%
48 – Edvard MUNCH – 0.5%
49 – Francis BACON – 0.5%
50 – Rufino TAMAYO – 0.5%
51 – Alexej VON JAWLENSKY – 0.5%
52 – Cy TWOMBLY – 0.4%
53 – Wifredo LAM – 0.4%
54 – Diego GIACOMETTI – 0.4%
55 – Laurence Stephen LOWRY – 0.4%
56 – Piet MONDRIAAN – 0.4%
57 – Marino MARINI – 0.4%
58 – Jack Butler YEATS – 0.4%
59 – Max ERNST – 0.4%
60 – Odilon REDON – 0.4%
61 – Albert MARQUET – 0.4%
62 – Georges ROUAULT – 0.4%
63 – Franz MARC – 0.4%
64 – Sam FRANCIS – 0.3%
65 – Fernando BOTERO – 0.3%
66 – Robert RAUSCHENBERG – 0.3%
67 – Richard DIEBENKORN – 0.3%
68 – Hermann Max PECHSTEIN – 0.3%
69 – Bernard BUFFET – 0.3%
70 – Henri-Théodore FANTIN-LATOUR – 0.3%
71 – Diego RIVERA – 0.3%
72 – Roberto MATTA – 0.3%
73 – Karel APPEL – 0.3%
74 – Georg BASELITZ – 0.3%
75 – Frank STELLA – 0.3%
76 – Serge POLIAKOFF – 0.3%
77 – Moïse KISLING – 0.3%
78 – MAN RAY – 0.3%
79 – Yves KLEIN – 0.3%
80 – ZHANG Daqian – 0.3%
81 – Asger JORN – 0.3%
82 – Gino SEVERINI – 0.3%
83 – John LAVERY – 0.3%
84 – Anders Leonard ZORN – 0.2%
85 – Aristide MAILLOL – 0.2%
86 – Lyonel FEININGER – 0.2%
87 – Erich HECKEL – 0.2%
88 – Max BECKMANN – 0.2%
89 – Sigmar POLKE – 0.2%
90 – Marie LAURENCIN – 0.2%
91 – Henri MARTIN – 0.2%
92 – Henri LE SIDANER – 0.2%
93 – Otto DIX – 0.2%
94 – Louis VALTAT – 0.2%
95 – Gustave LOISEAU – 0.2%
96 – Antoni TAPIES – 0.2%
97 – Jean FAUTRIER – 0.2%
98 – Adrien Jean LE MAYEUR DE MERPRES – 0.2%
99 – Massimo CAMPIGLI – 0.2%
100 – David HOCKNEY – 0.2%
Appendix 2
Composition of the Artprice100® in 2017
Rank – Artist – Weight
1 – Pablo PICASSO – 6.8%
2 – Andy WARHOL – 6.8%
3 – ZHANG Daqian – 4.4%
4 – QI Baishi – 3.8%
5 – Gerhard RICHTER – 3.7%
6 – Claude MONET – 3.4%
7 – Francis BACON – 3.3%
8 – Jean-Michel BASQUIAT – 2.9%
9 – Roy LICHTENSTEIN – 2.2%
10 – Alberto GIACOMETTI – 2.1%
11 – FU Baoshi – 2.0%
12 – Cy TWOMBLY – 1.9%
13 – ZAO Wou-Ki – 1.8%
14 – Amedeo MODIGLIANI – 1.8%
15 – XU Beihong – 1.8%
16 – Alexander CALDER – 1.8%
17 – LI Keran – 1.8%
18 – Lucio FONTANA – 1.7%
19 – Joan MIRO – 1.7%
20 – WU Guanzhong – 1.7%
21 – Willem DE KOONING – 1.6%
22 – HUANG Zhou – 1.5%
23 – Marc CHAGALL – 1.4%
24 – HUANG Binhong – 1.3%
25 – LU Yanshao – 1.3%
26 – Jeff KOONS – 1.3%
27 – Christopher WOOL – 1.2%
28 – LIN Fengmian – 1.0%
29 – CHU Teh-Chun – 1.0%
30 – Yves KLEIN – 0.9%
31 – Henri MATISSE – 0.9%
32 – Fernand LÉGER – 0.9%
33 – René MAGRITTE – 0.9%
34 – Henry MOORE – 0.9%
35 – Jean DUBUFFET – 0.9%
36 – Wassily KANDINSKY – 0.8%
37 – PAN Tianshou – 0.8%
38 – Edvard MUNCH – 0.8%
39 – Pierre-Auguste RENOIR – 0.8%
40 – Paul CÉZANNE – 0.7%
41 – SAN Yu – 0.7%
42 – Yayoi KUSAMA – 0.7%
43 – Peter DOIG – 0.6%
44 – PU Ru – 0.6%
45 – Edgar DEGAS – 0.6%
46 – Auguste RODIN – 0.6%
47 – Richard PRINCE – 0.6%
48 – Joan MITCHELL – 0.6%
49 – Sigmar POLKE – 0.5%
50 – Camille PISSARRO – 0.5%
51 – Paul GAUGUIN – 0.5%
52 – Salvador DALI – 0.5%
53 – Martin KIPPENBERGER – 0.4%
54 – Ed RUSCHA – 0.4%
55 – DONG Qichang – 0.4%
56 – Paul SIGNAC – 0.4%
57 – Piet MONDRIAAN – 0.4%
58 – Egon SCHIELE – 0.4%
59 – Alberto BURRI – 0.4%
60 – Richard DIEBENKORN – 0.4%
61 – Georges BRAQUE – 0.4%
62 – Juan GRIS – 0.4%
63 – WEN Zhengming – 0.4%
64 – Damien HIRST – 0.4%
65 – Pieter II BRUEGHEL – 0.4%
66 – Donald JUDD – 0.3%
67 – Louise BOURGEOIS – 0.3%
68 – Keith HARING – 0.3%
69 – Piero MANZONI – 0.3%
70 – Alfred SISLEY – 0.3%
71 – David HOCKNEY – 0.3%
72 – Max ERNST – 0.3%
73 – CHEN Yifei – 0.3%
74 – Ernst Ludwig KIRCHNER – 0.3%
75 – Frank STELLA – 0.3%
76 – Sam FRANCIS – 0.3%
77 – Pierre BONNARD – 0.3%
78 – Alighiero BOETTI – 0.3%
79 – Kees VAN DONGEN – 0.3%
80 – Jasper JOHNS – 0.3%
81 – Pierre SOULAGES – 0.3%
82 – Bernard BUFFET – 0.3%
83 – Fernando BOTERO – 0.3%
84 – Laurence Stephen LOWRY – 0.3%
85 – Agnes MARTIN – 0.3%
86 – Enrico CASTELLANI – 0.3%
87 – Robert RAUSCHENBERG – 0.3%
88 – Morton Wayne THIEBAUD – 0.3%
89 – Nicolas DE STAËL – 0.3%
90 – Francis PICABIA – 0.2%
91 – Barbara HEPWORTH – 0.2%
92 – Anselm KIEFER – 0.2%
93 – GUAN Liang – 0.2%
94 – YU Fei’an – 0.2%
95 – Emil NOLDE – 0.2%
96 – Maurice DE VLAMINCK – 0.2%
97 – Georg BASELITZ – 0.2%
98 – Tom WESSELMANN – 0.2%
99 – Anish KAPOOR – 0.2%
100 – Michelangelo PISTOLETTO – 0.2%
Copyright 1987-2018 thierry Ehrmann
About Artprice:
Artprice celebrates its 20th birthday, editorial by thierry Ehrmann, founder and CEO of Artprice. https://www.actusnews.com/fr/ARTPRICE/cp/2017/10/04/artprice-celebrates-its-20th-birthday-editorial-by-thierry-ehrmann-founder-and-ceo-of-artprice
https://artmarketinsight.wordpress.com/category/artprice-is-20-today/
Artprice is listed on the Eurolist by Euronext Paris, SRD long only and Euroclear: 7478 – Bloomberg: PRC – Reuters: ARTF.
Dicover Artprice in video: https://www.artprice.com/video
Artprice is the global leader in art price and art index databanks. It has over 30 million indices and auction results covering more than 700,000 artists. Artprice Images(R) gives unlimited access to the largest Art Market resource in the world: a library of 126 million images or prints of artworks from the year 1700 to the present day, along with comments by Artprice’s art historians.
Artprice permanently enriches its databanks with information from 6,300 auctioneers and it publishes a constant flow of art market trends for the world’s principal news agencies and approximately 7,200 international press publications. For its 4,500,000 members, Artprice gives access to the world’s leading Standardised Marketplace for buying and selling art. Artprice is preparing its blockchain for the Art Market. It is BPI-labelled (scientific national French label).
Artprice’s Global Art Market Annual Report for 2016 published last March 2017: http://imgpublic.artprice.com/pdf/rama2016_en.pdf
Artprice’s Contemporary Art Market Annual Report for 2016 – free access at https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-art-market-in-2016
The text presented hereafter is a translation of Arte Creative’s online presentation: ARTE: A gigantic Christmas tree in the guise of a butt plug, a machine that defecates five-star meals, an icon immersed in urine and staged corpses – subversive, trash, provocative or insulting? Thierry Ehrmann, the man behind The Abode of Chaos dixit « The New York Times », an artist and the founder of Artprice, is the mouthpiece for scandal and discloses the workings of the most striking controversies in contemporary art. And scandal sells. 9 episodes are online: http://www.arte.tv/guide/en/weekly-highlight
Artprice’s press releases: http://serveur.serveur.com/Press_Release/pressreleaseen.htm and https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom
Artmarket News:
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom & https://twitter.com/artmarketdotcom
https://www.facebook.com/artpricedotcom & https://plus.google.com/+Artpricedotcom/posts
http://artmarketinsight.wordpress.com/
Discover the Alchemy and the universe of Artprice http://web.artprice.com/video, which headquarters are the famous Museum of Contemporary Art, the Abode of Chaos http://goo.gl/zJssd
https://vimeo.com/124643720
The Contemporary Art Museum The Abode of Chaos on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/la.demeure.du.chaos.theabodeofchaos999
The Abode of Chaos/Demeure du Chaos Contemporary Art Museum by thierry Ehrmann,author, sculptor, artist, photograph https://www.flickr.com/photos/home_of_chaos/sets/72157
Contact ir@artprice.com
Exclusive: Today, 9 December 2017, Artprice confirms that the acquisition of Da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi involved geopolitical mediation, and that the Vatican Museums did indeed study the offer.
Leonardo da Vinci, Salvator Mundi
Artprice confirms the contents of its press release of 8 December and, today (9 December), adds further explanations concerning this historic sale:
Artprice Exclusive – Da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi at the Louvre Abu Dhabi is likely the result of a geopolitical mediation, involving Anglo-Saxon investment funds, financial firewalls and Mohammad Bin Salman (the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia), who actually bridled the final price paid. The artwork is apparently being insured for around 700 million dollars.
In June 2017, Saudi Arabia and its allies, including the United Arab Emirates, broke off all diplomatic ties with Qatar, which in recents years has established itself as a leading force on the global art market via the Qatar Museum Authority (Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani).
Meanwhile, in accordance with standard practice, the Vatican Museums (12 in total) extensively studied the Salvator Mundi opportunity and particularly how to interpret Da Vinci’s Christ iconography.
The series of differents communiqués on the subject by the different protagonists in the sale – each contradicting the previous one – suggests that the painting is theologically explosive, and it is clear that, in the end, the different protagonists preferred to avoid the topic, considering the theological “hotness” as potentially damaging to the success of the sale.
The Salvator Mundi painting may also offend Saudi sensibilities: human portraits and especially portraits of religious figures are forbidden under the strict Saudi brand of Islam, and this one raises particular issues because it depicts Jesus as “Savior of the World” (dixit The New York Times).
In the past, the Vatican Museums always had a clear right to examine, validate and, where appropriate, acquire historical artworks that played a significant role in the propagation of the Christian faith. Although this RC monopoly has gradually receded, it remains valid in the 21st century for all major work of art that depict the symbols of the Christian faith; and the Jesus Christ painted by Leonardo Da Vinci as “Savior of the World” is naturally one such representation.
Artprice can therefore confirm that the sale of the Da Vinci’s « Salvator Mundi » did indeed involve geo-political mediation as well as diplomatic management of its religious and theological implications. The final outcome, with the painting being exhibited at the Louvre in Abu Dhabi, is therefore the result of all these factors and the insured value of the artwork at 700 million dollars most likely corresponds perfectly to the painting’s value in a Museum Industry ® context.
For further information, read our 7 Dec. 2017 release https://www.actusnews.com/fr/ARTPRICE/cp/2017/12/07/news-of-da-vinci_s-salvator-mundi-being-exhibited-at-the-abu-dhabi-louvre-and-soon-at-the-paris-louvre-entirely-endorses
News of Da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi being exhibited at the Abu Dhabi Louvre –and soon at the Paris Louvre– entirely endorses Artprice’s Museum Industry®
Having provided an exclusive explanation of the sophisticated financial arrangements behind the recent acquisition of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi –an explanation that was picked up by Agence France Presse today–, Artprice has highlighted a highly sophisticated economic model.
The arrangements for the acquisition of the Da Vinci masterpiece correspond perfectly to the Museum Industry® model that Artprice conceptualized in 2005 and has taught ever since.
According to thierry Ehrmann, All the of the world’s major museums hold accounts with Artprice, including of course the Louvre. The United Arab Emirates, with its capital Abu Dhabi, is one of the top 10 most active countries accessing Artprice’s databases…”
Here’s the deal: the Paris Louvre sells a “Louvre” franchise to Abu Dhabi until 2037. The latter pays a total of 400 million euros to the Paris Louvre for the right to use the Louvre name. The latter, accompanied by 13 French museums, convenants to lend artworks to Abu Dhabi – 10 museums have already lent more than 350 artworks.
These arrangements shows the Museum Industry® collaborating within a network, using investment vehicles and complex legal structures.
They unambiguously prove the emergence in the twenty-first century of a new economic sector – the Museum Industry® – exactly as Artprice described it back in 2005.
In short, we have a classic business model with inflows (ticketing and derivative income) and outflows – operating license costs plus acquisition costs… in this case, the price of Da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi, a price predicted by Artprice three months prior to its sale.
The 450 million dollars paid for the painting is the result of an intelligent investment decision based on the Louvre museum’s annual operating income (ebitda) and not on some wild extravagance. Those who believe it is the latter have failed to understand that the Museum Industry® is now the principal structure of the global art market.
This structure is driving art prices up by creating scarcity on the three principal segments of the Art Market: Old Masters, Modern Art and Contemporary Art, and we see that within this industry configuration, the resale of a “major tangible asset” can have an immediate impact on ticket revenue.
Artprice – which will be launching its own museum ranking index (Artmuseum100®) in early 2018 – highlights the transformation of museums, whose clientele has grown tenfold in the last 30 years.
Artprice and its econometrics department has been collaborating with Twitter for two years on a giant sample of 39 million identified followers with links to the world’s 100 principal Fine Art museums.
According to thierry Ehrmann, This massive expansion of the global Museum Industry® goes hand-in-hand with a major soft-power competition between the world’s nations, particularly its major powers (China / US) and the Gulf States. Indeed, soft-power rivalry is leading the art market inexorably towards spectacular new auction results. In our well-documented view, we are likely to see results around the billion dollar threshold by 2020.
As the world leader in Art Market information, Artprice can only benefit from this growth of the Art Market, driven essentially by the increasing power of the Museum Industry®.
For a reminder of the Museum Industry® conceptualized by Artprice, please read this press release: https://www.actusnews.com/fr/ARTPRICE/cp/2017/11/19/artprice-the-auction-record-for-salvator-mundi-by-leonardo-da-vinci-proves-that-the-museum-industry-reg-is-completely
www.artprice.com Copyright thierry Ehrmann 1987/2017
About Artprice:
Artprice celebrates its 20th birthday, editorial by thierry Ehrmann, founder and CEO of Artprice. https://www.actusnews.com/fr/ARTPRICE/cp/2017/10/04/artprice-celebrates-its-20th-birthday-editorial-by-thierry-ehrmann-founder-and-ceo-of-artprice
Artprice is listed on the Eurolist by Euronext Paris, SRD long only and Euroclear: 7478 – Bloomberg: PRC – Reuters: ARTF.
Artprice is the global leader in art price and art index databanks. It has over 30 million indices and auction results covering more than 700,000 artists. Artprice Images(R) gives unlimited access to the largest Art Market resource in the world: a library of 126 million images or prints of artworks from the year 1700 to the present day, along with comments by Artprice’s art historians.
Artprice permanently enriches its databanks with information from 6,300 auctioneers and it publishes a constant flow of art market trends for the world’s principal news agencies and approximately 7,200 international press publications. For its 4,500,000 members, Artprice gives access to the world’s leading Standardised Marketplace for buying and selling art. Artprice is preparing its blockchain for the Art Market. It is BPI-labelled (scientific national French label).
Artprice’s Global Art Market Annual Report for 2016 published last March 2017: http://imgpublic.artprice.com/pdf/rama2016_en.pdf
Artprice’s Contemporary Art Market Annual Report for 2016 – free access at https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-art-market-in-2016
The text presented hereafter is a translation of Arte Creative’s online presentation: ARTE: A gigantic Christmas tree in the guise of a butt plug, a machine that defecates five-star meals, an icon immersed in urine and staged corpses – subversive, trash, provocative or insulting? Thierry Ehrmann, the man behind The Abode of Chaos dixit « The New York Times », an artist and the founder of Artprice, is the mouthpiece for scandal and discloses the workings of the most striking controversies in contemporary art. And scandal sells. 9 episodes are online: http://www.arte.tv/guide/en/weekly-highlight
Artprice’s press releases: http://serveur.serveur.com/Press_Release/pressreleaseen.htm and https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom
News Artmarket:
http://twitter.com/artpricedotcom https://www.facebook.com/artpricedotcom
https://www.facebook.com/artpricedotcom
https://plus.google.com/+Artpricedotcom/posts
http://artmarketinsight.wordpress.com/
Discover the Alchemy and the universe of Artprice http://web.artprice.com/video, which headquarters are the famous Museum of Contemporary Art, the Abode of Chaos http://goo.gl/zJssdhttps://vimeo.com/124643720
The Contemporary Art Museum The Abode of Chaos on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/la.demeure.du.chaos.theabodeofchaos999
The Abode of Chaos/Demeure du Chaos Contemporary Art Museum by thierry Ehrmann,author, sculptor, artist, photograph https://www.flickr.com/photos/home_of_chaos/sets/72157
Artprice Exclusive – Da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi at the Louvre Abu Dhabi is Likely the Result of a Geopolitical Mediation
Artprice Exclusive – Da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi at the Louvre Abu Dhabi is likely the result of a geopolitical mediation, involving Anglo-Saxon funds, firewalls and Mohammad Bin Salman -the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia-, which curbed its price. Insurance fees for a public exhibition are estimated at 700 million dollars approximately. In June 2017, Saudi Arabia and its allies, including the United Arab Emirates, broke off all diplomatic ties with Qatar after in the last few years in the Gulf region, Qatar had established its leadership on the Art Market with the Qatar Museum Authority (Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani).
For further information, read our 7 Dec. 2017 release https://www.actusnews.com/fr/ARTPRICE/cp/2017/12/07/news-of-da-vinci_s-salvator-mundi-being-exhibited-at-the-abu-dhabi-louvre-and-soon-at-the-paris-louvre-entirely-endorses
News of Da Vinci‘s Salvator Mundi being exhibited at the Abu Dhabi Louvre –and soon at the Paris Louvre– entirely endorses Artprice‘s Museum Industry®
Having provided an exclusive explanation of the sophisticated financial arrangements behind the recent acquisition of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi –an explanation that was picked up by Agence France Presse today–, Artprice has highlighted a highly sophisticated economic model.
The arrangements for the acquisition of the Da Vinci masterpiece correspond perfectly to the Museum Industry® model that Artprice conceptualized in 2005 and has taught ever since.
About Artprice:
Artprice celebrates its 20th birthday, editorial by thierry Ehrmann, founder and CEO of Artprice. https://www.actusnews.com/fr/ARTPRICE/cp/2017/10/04/artprice-celebrates-its-20th-birthday-editorial-by-thierry-ehrmann-founder-and-ceo-of-artprice
Artprice is listed on the Eurolist by Euronext Paris, SRD long only and Euroclear: 7478 – Bloomberg: PRC – Reuters: ARTF.
Artprice is the global leader in art price and art index databanks. It has over 30 million indices and auction results covering more than 700,000 artists. Artprice Images(R) gives unlimited access to the largest Art Market resource in the world: a library of 126 million images or prints of artworks from the year 1700 to the present day, along with comments by Artprice’s art historians.
Artprice permanently enriches its databanks with information from 6,300 auctioneers and it publishes a constant flow of art market trends for the world’s principal news agencies and approximately 7,200 international press publications. For its 4,500,000 members, Artprice gives access to the world’s leading Standardised Marketplace for buying and selling art. Artprice is preparing its blockchain for the Art Market. It is BPI-labelled (scientific national French label).
Artprice’s Global Art Market Annual Report for 2016 published last March 2017: http://imgpublic.artprice.com/pdf/rama2016_en.pdf
Artprice’s Contemporary Art Market Annual Report for 2016 – free access at https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-art-market-in-2016
The text presented hereafter is a translation of Arte Creative’s online presentation: ARTE: A gigantic Christmas tree in the guise of a butt plug, a machine that defecates five-star meals, an icon immersed in urine and staged corpses – subversive, trash, provocative or insulting? Thierry Ehrmann, the man behind The Abode of Chaos dixit « The New York Times« , an artist and the founder of Artprice, is the mouthpiece for scandal and discloses the workings of the most striking controversies in contemporary art. And scandal sells. 9 episodes are online: http://www.arte.tv/guide/en/weekly-highlight
Artprice’s press releases: http://serveur.serveur.com/Press_Release/pressreleaseen.htm and https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom
News Artmarket:
http://twitter.com/artpricedotcom https://www.facebook.com/artpricedotcom
https://www.facebook.com/artpricedotcom
https://plus.google.com/+Artpricedotcom/posts
http://artmarketinsight.wordpress.com/
Discover the Alchemy and the universe of Artprice http://web.artprice.com/video, which headquarters are the famous Museum of Contemporary Art, the Abode of Chaos http://goo.gl/zJssdhttps http://vimeo.com/124643720
The Contemporary Art Museum The Abode of Chaos on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/la.demeure.du.chaos.theabodeofchaos999
The Abode of Chaos/Demeure du Chaos Contemporary Art Museum by thierry Ehrmann,author, sculptor, artist, photograph https://www.flickr.com/photos/home_of_chaos/sets/72157
thierry Ehrmann – e-mail: ir@artprice.com
SOURCE Artprice.com
According to thierry Ehrmann, All the of the world‘s major museums hold accounts with Artprice, including of course the Louvre. The United Arab Emirates, with its capital Abu Dhabi, is one of the top 10 most active countries accessing Artprice‘s databases… »
Here’s the deal: the Paris Louvre sells a « Louvre » franchise to Abu Dhabi until 2037. The latter pays a total of 400 million euros to the Paris Louvre for the right to use the Louvre name. The latter, accompanied by 13 French museums, convenants to lend artworks to Abu Dhabi – 10 museums have already lent more than 350 artworks.
These arrangements shows the Museum Industry® collaborating within a network, using investment vehicles and complex legal structures.
They unambiguously prove the emergence in the twenty-first century of a new economic sector – the Museum Industry® – exactly as Artprice described it back in 2005.
In short, we have a classic business model with inflows (ticketing and derivative income) and outflows – operating license costs plus acquisition costs… in this case, the price of Da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi, a price predicted by Artprice three months prior to its sale.
The 450 million dollars paid for the painting is the result of an intelligent investment decision based on the Louvre museum’s annual operating income (ebitda) and not on some wild extravagance. Those who believe it is the latter have failed to understand that the Museum Industry® is now the principal structure of the global art market.
This structure is driving art prices up by creating scarcity on the three principal segments of the Art Market: Old Masters, Modern Art and Contemporary Art, and we see that within this industry configuration, the resale of a « major tangible asset » can have an immediate impact on ticket revenue.
Artprice – which will be launching its own museum ranking index (Artmuseum100®) in early 2018 – highlights the transformation of museums, whose clientele has grown tenfold in the last 30 years.
Artprice and its econometrics department has been collaborating with Twitter for two years on a giant sample of 39 million identified followers with links to the world’s 100 principal Fine Art museums.
According to thierry Ehrmann, This massive expansion of the global Museum Industry® goes hand-in-hand with a major soft-power competition between the world’s nations, particularly its major powers (China / US) and the Gulf States. Indeed, soft-power rivalry is leading the art market inexorably towards spectacular new auction results. In our well-documented view, we are likely to see results around the billion dollar threshold by 2020.
As the world leader in Art Market information, Artprice can only benefit from this growth of the Art Market, driven essentially by the increasing power of the Museum Industry®.
For a reminder of the Museum Industry® conceptualized by Artprice, please read this press release: https://www.actusnews.com/fr/ARTPRICE/cp/2017/11/19/artprice-the-auction-record-for-salvator-mundi-by-leonardo-da-vinci-proves-that-the-museum-industry-reg-is-completely
http://www.artprice.com Copyright thierry Ehrmann 1987/2017
Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi to be exhibited at the Louvre Museum alongside the Mona Lisa is evidence the Museum Industry(R) economy conceptualized by Artprice is a reality
Artprice had given the price for Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi 3 months in advance (AOF press agency) and has explained it in its different releases including the following:
Leonardo da Vinci, Salvator Mundi
Artprice also explained in a interview with French newspaper JDD that the Museum Industry® economy (conceptualized by Artprice since 2005) is the foundation of the construction of this record price, which could only be understood through the Art Market’s paradigm shift of which she has become the main driving force.
thierry Ehrmann: « The absolute proof has been given this morning when Jean-Luc Martinez, President-Director of the Louvre museum, in an interview with RTL radio, stated that exhibiting the Salvator Mundi alongside the Mona Lisa in the context of a Leonardo da Vinci exhibition for the celebration of the Grand Louvre’s 30th Anniversary was under negotiation. The AFP dispatch, released a few minutes ago, also reported the capital information through its international news feed.
That is the heart of the Museum Industry®’s business model, that sees such an exhibition have an exponential impact on the growth of the Louvre’s ticket sales.
Also, no one will dare doubt the statement of a senior official at the French Ministry of Culture.
The new economic science – taught by Artprice – is relentlessly pushing prices up. Our conviction about the evolution of the art market started with a simple observation: the exponential nature of art museum openings around the world. In 2014 an Artprice meta-study revealed that more art museums opened between January 2000 and December 2014 than during the entire 19th and 20th centuries.
It also revealed that roughly 700 new art museums are being built every year on 5 continents, each with international vocations and each with at least 4,500 artworks.
This massive expansion of the global museum industry® goes hand-in-hand with a major soft-power competition between the world’s nations, particularly its major powers (China / US) and the Gulf States. Indeed, soft-power rivalry is leading the art market inexorably towards spectacular new auction results. In our well-documented view, we are likely to see results around the billion dollar threshold by 2020.”
Indeed, thanks to its direct Intranet link to major Auction Houses, Artprice is aware of plans for prestige sales in the near future. According to our econometrics department and our Big Data algorithms, we can already predict that several sales will generate results in excess of one billion dollars, notably Christie’s sale of the David and Peggy Rockefeller collection next May in New York.
The Art Market, as reported by Artprice in its reports and the present release, is recording one record after the other for all periods – Old Master, Modern Art & Contemporary Art. To name a few: Kerry James Marshall – Still Life with Wedding Portrait – Christie’s NY 15 Nov. 2017; Carmen HERRERA – Untitled (Orange and Black) (1956) – Phillips NY 16 Nov. 2017; this week, the record for Camille Claudel was shattered at Artcurial, with the preemption of many museums, precisely.
Also, The New York Times agreed with Artprice’s analysis on the Museum Industry®.
www.artprice.com Copyright thierry Ehrmann 1987/2017
About Artprice:
Artprice celebrates its 20th birthday, editorial by thierry Ehrmann, founder and CEO of Artprice. https://www.actusnews.com/fr/ARTPRICE/cp/2017/10/04/artprice-celebrates-its-20th-birthday-editorial-by-thierry-ehrmann-founder-and-ceo-of-artprice
Artprice is listed on the Eurolist by Euronext Paris, SRD long only and Euroclear: 7478 – Bloomberg: PRC – Reuters: ARTF.
Artprice is the global leader in art price and art index databanks. It has over 30 million indices and auction results covering more than 700,000 artists. Artprice Images(R) gives unlimited access to the largest Art Market resource in the world: a library of 126 million images or prints of artworks from the year 1700 to the present day, along with comments by Artprice’s art historians.
Artprice permanently enriches its databanks with information from 6,300 auctioneers and it publishes a constant flow of art market trends for the world’s principal news agencies and approximately 7,200 international press publications. For its 4,500,000 members, Artprice gives access to the world’s leading Standardised Marketplace for buying and selling art. Artprice is preparing its blockchain for the Art Market. It is BPI-labelled (scientific national French label).
Artprice’s Global Art Market Annual Report for 2016 published last March 2017: http://imgpublic.artprice.com/pdf/rama2016_en.pdf
Artprice’s Contemporary Art Market Annual Report for 2016 – free access at https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-art-market-in-2016
The text presented hereafter is a translation of Arte Creative’s online presentation: ARTE: A gigantic Christmas tree in the guise of a butt plug, a machine that defecates five-star meals, an icon immersed in urine and staged corpses – subversive, trash, provocative or insulting? Thierry Ehrmann, the man behind The Abode of Chaos dixit « The New York Times », an artist and the founder of Artprice, is the mouthpiece for scandal and discloses the workings of the most striking controversies in contemporary art. And scandal sells. 9 episodes are online: http://www.arte.tv/guide/en/weekly-highlight
Artprice’s press releases: http://serveur.serveur.com/Press_Release/pressreleaseen.htm and https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom
News Artmarket:
http://twitter.com/artpricedotcom https://www.facebook.com/artpricedotcom
https://www.facebook.com/artpricedotcom
https://plus.google.com/+Artpricedotcom/posts
http://artmarketinsight.wordpress.com/
Discover the Alchemy and the universe of Artprice http://web.artprice.com/video, which headquarters are the famous Museum of Contemporary Art, the Abode of Chaos http://goo.gl/zJssdhttps://vimeo.com/124643720
The Contemporary Art Museum The Abode of Chaos on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/la.demeure.du.chaos.theabodeofchaos999
The Abode of Chaos/Demeure du Chaos Contemporary Art Museum by thierry Ehrmann,author, sculptor, artist, photograph https://www.flickr.com/photos/home_of_chaos/sets/72157
The New York Times rejoint l’anticipation d’Artprice après le record du Salvator Mundi de Leonardo Da Vinci chez Christie’s sur le changement d’échelle du Marché de l’Art.
Par son agence de presse Artmarket Insight et sa cellule de surveillance des publications mondiales concernant le Marché de l’Art, Artprice ne peut que revenir sur l’article paru le 24 Novembre 2017 dans The New York Times, dont le titre évocateur est : « How This Leonardo’s Mind-Blowing Price Will Change the Art Market », signé Scott Reyburn, une des plumes les plus reconnues au Monde parmi les journalistes anglos-saxons traitant de l’actualité du Marché de l’Art, et disponible en ligne sur :
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/24/arts/design/salvator-mundi-leonardo.html
Leonardo da Vinci, Salvator Mundi
thierry Ehrmann: « Artprice prend note de l’adéquation parfaite de cet article avec notre communiqué bilingue publié le 19 Novembre 2017 et disponible en ligne sur :
et pour la version anglaise:
En effet, force est de constater que de part et d’autre de l’Atlantique, la synthèse est identique après le record à 450,3 millions de dollars établi par le Salvator Mundi de Leonardo Da Vinci: le Marché de l’Art change définitivement d’échelle.
En effet, ce record a permis immédiatement à d’autres œuvres d’atteindre des adjudications très sensiblement supérieures à l’estimation de base. Ce modèle de distribution des prix confirme que le Marché de l’Art au regard de l’économétrie et de l’analyse technique est un marché désormais efficient, mature et liquide.
Mais ce n’est pas tout, en incluant Salvator Mundi de Leonardo Da Vinci dans une vente d’Art Contemporain, Christie’s a brisé les codes. Cette disruption au sein même d’une institution séculaire est un signal pour le moins remarquable quant à l’avenir du Marché de l’Art, qui bascule dans une économie de marché, où Internet devient le lieu unique des ventes publiques qui ne cessent de se dématérialiser.
thierry Ehrmann: « L’Industrie Muséale®, dont Artprice a entièrement conceptualisé et protégé au titre de la propriété intellectuelle le modèle économique dès 2005, est le moteur de ce changement de paradigme.
Cette nouvelle science économique enseignée par Artprice dans le Marché de l’Art aspire implacablement les prix vers le haut. Premièrement, nous avons très vite observé le caractère exponentiel de la création des Musées d’Art dans le Monde. Effectivement selon notre méta étude, il s’est construit plus de Musées d’Art entre le 01/01/2000 et le 31/12/2014 que durant tous les XIXème et XXème siècles.
De même, il se construit chaque année 700 musées d’Art sur les 5 continents à caractères internationaux avec un minimum de 4500 œuvres d’Art.
Ce soft power entre les grandes puissances, que sont la Chine et les USA, ou les pays du Golfe, est un moteur géopolitique puissant pour le développement exponentiel de l’industrie muséale®, avec donc inexorablement de nouvelles ventes spectaculaires à venir, avec en ligne de mire le franchissement du cap du milliard de $ pour une œuvre d’ici 2020 ».
En effet Artprice a pris connaissance par son Intranet relié aux Maisons de Ventes des ventes prestigieuses en cours d’élaboration. Selon notre département d’économétrie et nos algorithmes aidés du Big Data, nous pouvons d’ores et déjà affirmer d’une manière certaine que plusieurs ventes dépasseront le milliard de $, notamment la collection de David et Peggy Rockefeller en Mai prochain à New York chez Christie’s.
Artprice souligne que Sotheby’s prévoit elle aussi une année 2018 flamboyante avec la préparation de ventes spectaculaires lui permettant de remonter son handicap face à sa rivale de toujours.
Un même écho se prépare en Asie, notamment en Chine.
Il y a moins d’une heure avant ce communiqué, France Télévision publie l’article qui au passage se fonde à 100% sur le raisonnement de l’Industrie Muséale® propriété d’Artprice depuis 2005 pour établir le prix d’une œuvre.
« La raison ? La Joconde est sans doute la toile la plus connue au monde. Les touristes affluent pour venir l’admirer au Louvre. Elle est aussi l’une des rares peintures intégralement produites par l’un des plus grands artistes de l’histoire. Rareté, célébrité, perfection technique, un cocktail qui rend son estimation compliquée. Un expert et deux commisaires-priseurs rencontrés par FranceInfo ont entrepris un calcul rationnel s’appuyant sur des variables quantifiables.
Pour Elsa Gody, il est nécessaire d’appliquer une formule simple : prendre le prix du billet du musée du Louvre, le multiplier par le nombre de visiteurs sur une période donnée… « On arrive à peu près à deux milliards d’euros », soutient la Commissaire-priseur chez Catawiki. Son confrère Pierre Blanchet, lui, est moins rationnel car « la passion » autour de ce tableau rend toute estimation difficile, surtout au cours d’une vente aux enchères où les prix peuvent rapidement s’envoler. …/… « Pourquoi pas 10 milliards d’euros », finit-il par lâcher. »
En conséquence Artprice confirme qu’en 2018 le Marché de l’Art va définitivement changer d’échelle.
En conséquence Artprice confirme qu’en 2018 le Marché de l’Art va définitivement changer d’échelle, tant par le chiffre d’affaires global, que par des records spectaculaires sur les segments de l’Art ancien, moderne et contemporain et des ventes cataloguées de prestige qui atteindront le milliard de $.
Selon notre département d’économétrie plus de 180 artistes devraient exploser leurs records en 2018. Le Marché de l’Art qu’Artprice accompagne en tant que Leader Mondial de l’Information sur le Marché de l’Art depuis 20 ans a définitivement changé de visage.
www.artprice.com Copyright thierry Ehrmann 1987/2017
A propos d’Artprice :
Artprice est cotée sur Eurolist by Euronext Paris, SRD long only et Euroclear : 7478 – Bloomberg : PRC – Reuters : ARTF.
Artprice est le Leader mondial des banques de données sur la cotation et les indices de l’Art avec plus de 30 millions d’indices et résultats de ventes couvrant plus de 657 000 Artistes. Artprice Images® permet un accès illimité au plus grand fonds du Marché de l’Art au monde, bibliothèque constituée de 126 millions d’images ou gravures d’œuvres d’Art de 1700 à nos jours commentées par ses historiens.
Artprice enrichit en permanence ses banques de données en provenance de 6300 Maisons de Ventes et publie en continu les tendances du Marché de l’Art pour les principales agences et 7200 titres de presse dans le monde. Artprice met à la disposition de ses 4,5 millions de membres (members log in), les annonces déposées par ses Membres, qui constituent désormais la première Place de Marché Normalisée® mondiale pour acheter et vendre des œuvres d’Art à prix fixe ou aux enchères (enchères réglementées par les alinéas 2 et 3 de l’article L 321.3 du code du commerce). Artprice labellisée par le BPI développe son projet de Blockchain sur le Marché de l’Art.
Le Rapport Annuel Artprice du Marché de l’Art mondial 2016 publié en mars 2017 :
https://fr.artprice.com/artprice-reports/le-marche-de-lart-en-2016
Le rapport du Marché de l’Art Contemporain 2016 d’Artprice est accessible gratuitement à l’adresse:
https://fr.artprice.com/artprice-reports/le-marche-de-lart-contemporain-2016
Communiqué d’ARTE : A la tête de La Demeure du Chaos/ Abode of Chaos dixit « The New York Times », thierry Ehrmann, artiste et fondateur d’Artprice dévoile en 9 épisodes les rouages des plus gros esclandres de l’art contemporain, qui garantissent à coup sûr des expositions blockbusters http://creative.arte.tv/fr/artscandale
Sommaire des communiqués d’Artprice :
http://serveur.serveur.com/press_release/pressreleasefr.htm et https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom
Suivre en temps réel toute l’actualité du Marché de l’Art avec Artprice sur Facebook, Google+ Twitter: https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom & https://twitter.com/artmarketdotcom
https://www.facebook.com/artpricedotcom & https://plus.google.com/+Artpricedotcom/posts
http://artmarketinsight.wordpress.com/
Découvrir l’alchimie et l’univers d’Artprice http://web.artprice.com/video dont le siège social est le célèbre Musée d’art contemporain Abode of Chaos / Demeure du Chaos http://goo.gl/zJssd https://vimeo.com/124643720
Musée d’Art Contemporain siège social d’Artprice:
https://www.facebook.com/la.demeure.du.chaos.theabodeofchaos999