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Auction Houses: The Year at a Glance

Gauguin: Historical Sales

The Latin American Wave

Though with a lower profile and fewer record prices than the English-speaking and European markets, Latin American art market is still a major showcase…

Art Loans: Already in Decline?

The flagship product of the second half of the 2010s, the art secured loan, has been increasingly beleaguered since the start of the year, raising…

"Turquin Caravaggio": Not Toulouse, but Fifth Avenue

In the end, the "Turquin Caravaggio" was not put on sale at the Toulouse Corn Exchange on Thursday as planned. In the late afternoon of Tuesday 25…

Art Price Index

The Odiot Company

Part of the silversmith aristocracy, Odiot was supplier to the Europe's leading courts, and its most outstanding achievements sometimes top the €200,000…

Brexit: Wait and See

After almost half a century of living "together", the United Kingdom stopped being part of the European Union on 1 February. London and Brussels have…

Buffet’s Porcelains, or Riopelle’s Materials

Modern and contemporary art were feted in Lille, where France was represented by illustrious figures from Survage to Riopelle, not to mention Bernard…

Photographs and Drawings from Across the Atlantic

Cindy Sherman, Salvador Dali and Thierry Cohen have one thing in common: they created on both American continents.

Childhood Visions of Vietnamese Painters

Two of the greatest artists from the Hanoi College of Fine Arts painted intimate, poetic works.

Duchamp's Rotoreliefs Preempted

Art Market Overview: The Richter Market Brightens

After dipping slightly, Gerhard Richter's prices seem to be bouncing back, at least according to the Artnet website.

Amélie Marcilhac: Art Deco as a Cultural Heritage

Daughter of the illustrious 20th-century decorative arts expert, she established herself in her own right through her knowledge and rigorous standards.…

Art Market Overview: The Rise of Urban Art

Artprice looked into the urban art market, which has been booming for around 10 years, successfully moving from the street to galleries and auction…

Artprice: Analyzing 20 Years of Contemporary Art

The French database attests to contemporary art’s encroachment on the auction market over two decades.

Historic Decisions for the Drouot Group

Covid-19 has forced Drouot to shut down for the second time this year, but that must not overshadow the decisions made at the September 30 shareholders’…

Jean-Luc Martinez: Bid for the Louvre!

The chairman and director of the world's largest museum takes us behind the scenes of an "online only" auction designed to finance "projects to support…

The Art Market: Champion of the Circular Economy?

Between global climate and health threats, the explosion of online practices and changing consumption patterns, the long-established view of the economy…

Benefiting the science of tomorrow

Gearing up for the future, the Palais de la Découverte in Paris reached for the stars with an auction of items telling its story.

Art Market Overview: The Chinese Market in Decline

Artnet's report on the Chinese art market, published last month in partnership with the China Association of Auctioneers, highlighted a notable change…

2021: A Fresh Start for Drouot

Drouot is ringing in the New Year with key changes in its organization.

Alexandre Giquello and Brice Pescheteau Badin: Drouot Shifts into High Gear

Alexandre Giquello and Brice Pescheteau Badin, president and director of Drouot Patrimoine and Drouot Enchère, respectively, spelled out the Paris…

Art Market Overview: The Highest Prices in 2020

Every year, Artprice ranks the most expensive artworks sold at auction. The website posted very positive results for 2020, but scales of values decreased.…

Art Market Overview: The Internet and Auction Houses

On February 7, the Conseil des Ventes, France’s public auction watchdog, released the findings of a survey on French auction houses’ online bidding…

Farewell to Jean-Pierre Camard, the First 20th-century Decorative Arts Expert

The expert Jean-Pierre Camard passed away in February. He was the first to specialize in Art Nouveau and Art Deco, fields that have soared in popularity.…

1891-2021: The Gazette Celebrates Its 130th Anniversary

This magazine, which has been surfing the web since 1996, certainly doesn't look its age. We look back at the birth and history of a flagship title…

NFTs: What Are People Really Buying?

p rices for NFTs have skyrocketed in recent weeks, but huge misunderstandings remain about what people are actually buying. What is going on?

Van Gogh: An Auction Rollercoaster

The auction of this view of Montmartre was beset by a series of human and technological errors.

Art Market Overview: The Consecration of Claire Tabouret

Claire Tabouret (b.1981) has just become the art market’s highest-priced living French artist and been ranked the ninth-highest valued French artist…

Art Market Overview: a New Record for Chu Teh-Chun

Chu Teh-Chun is now seventh in the Artprice 2021 rankings, just behind his fellow citizen Zao Wou-Ki.

Art Market Overview: Rising Prices for Paintings by American Artist Robert Colescott

Twelve years after his death, the price index for works by the American New Figuration painter Robert Colescott (1925-2009) are soaring.

Art Market Overview: New York on Top

The just-ended week of sales in New York was an extraordinary one, with Picasso's Woman Sitting by the Window fetching $103.4 M at Christie's and Basquiat's…

Art Market Overview : Works Worth Over $100 M

A Pablo Picasso painting narrowly passed the $100 M mark when Femme assise près d'une fenêtre (Marie-Thérèse) ( Woman Sitting by a Window (Marie-Thérèse…

The Auction Market's Phoney Crisis

Despite the pandemic, the auction market has not collapsed, and the first quarter of 2021 even broke records: a euphoria now confirmed by the traditional…

Dorville Sale: French Government Rejects Restitution

Contrary to the beliefs of several media outlets, the French government has rejected the principle of restituting works coming from the wartime sales…

Art Market Overview: Julie Mehretu is Back

Ethiopian-born American painter Julie Mehretu has made a noteworthy return to the auction room.

Market: France Salvages Something from 2020

France has done fairly well despite the global decline in public sales. In its assessment, the Conseil des Ventes (French Sales Council) focuses on…

Art Market Overview: Peter Doig

Scottish superstar Peter Doig placed 75th in Art Price 2020’s overall rankings. His prices have remained stable despite Covid.

Drouot: Total Revenue Up for the First Half of 2021

In the past half-year at Hôtel Drouot, 59 auctioneers held 393 sales netting a total amount of €200.5 M, surpassing the 2019 figure by 2.3%.

Art Market Overview: A Historic First Half for Germany

Germany repeats its records of 2020: the best year in its history.

Art Market Overview: Adrian Ghenie Rocks the Salerooms

Ten years after his first work was sold at auction, Romanian artist Adrian Ghenie (1977) is rising to the top of the contemporary art market.

Art Market Overview: Georgia O’Keeffe is the World’s Most Expensive Female Artist

The Centre Pompidou is paying tribute to this leading figure of modernism, who is in first place in a 100% American market.

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