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“Welcome back to the art market!”(Post)
“Welcome back to the art market!” said Jussi Pylkkänen, the auctioneer of the Modern British Art evening auction arranged at Christie's on March 1st 2021. It did, indeed, feel, that the art mark ...
Encouraging Results at the Sotheby's June "Art Contemporain" Live evening sale in Paris(Post)Sotheby's "Art Contemporain" Live evening sale in Paris, France on June 24th 2020 performed reasonably well as its total Selling Price (Hammer Price plus Buyers' Premium) was over 15 million euros (a ...
Did we just witness a shift to Paris in Sotheby’s recovery strategy?(Post)On March 25th, Sotheby’s Art Impressionniste et Moderne Evening sale in Paris achieved an impressive total of almost 37 million euros with buyer’s premium ($43.5 million), far beyond all historical p ...
Christie’s London 20th Century and Surrealist Evening Sales: lower supply, higher upside(Post)Christie's multi-category 20th Century and surrealist evening sales opened the 2021 series of major auctions with bright expectations. With 168 million GBP of art being traded (including buyer's prem ...
Would Sellers at the Paris Modern Art Evening sales be better off with less guarantees?(Post)This fall, Christie's and Sotheby's hammered their Paris Art Moderne October evening sales, both opting for a livestream paired with London Contemporary Frieze auctions. The series of auctions starte ...
Did Christie’s New York Contemporary Art Day sale's format build on the learnings from the 2008 crisis?(Post)The year 2020 undoubtedly demonstrated the auction houses' ability to show flexibility, as they adapted to restricted market conditions at an unprecedented pace. While Sotheby's moved a large s ...