In January 2022, the Paris art market landscape was suddenly upended, when the FIAC was replaced by Art Basel, under the aegis of the MCH group. An initial assessment of the eagerly awaited first edition of Paris+ in late October.
He now ranks alongside Picasso, Monet, Vinci, Giacometti, Matisse and Van Gogh in the select circle of 24 artists whose works have sold for over $79 M at auction.
Illustrious families have succeeded each other at the Franquenot Chateau, an imposing yet understated residence in the département of La Manche. A new chapter begins with the sale of its contents.
Deprived of the fair in 2020 and 2021, art lovers can look forward to the second edition of District 13 this year, which is refocusing on French galleries and is once again being held at the Hôtel Drouot.
With total sales revenue of €295.7M, the Drouot Group recorded a 7% increase in the first six months of 2022 compared with the same period in 2021, confirming its central position in the art market.
On the occasion of a second auction on the theme of Pierre Soulages, the art of engraving, some thirty etchings, lithographs and serigraphs, partly from the collection of Claude C., will go up for auction on Monday, September 19, at 5, avenue d’Eylau in Paris.
In this village in the department of the Var, private foundations and estates full of sculptures attract the cream of the art collecting crop each summer. It’s a different way of doing business.
Covid’s aftershocks have profoundly reshaped the art fair landscape. All the operators have revised their strategy for September 2022. What will the autumn fair schedule look like in Paris?
Enriched with gold illuminations and intricate calligraphy, Islam’s holiest texts were available in sumptuous forms. However, it was a more sober version that attracted the most attention at a recent auction.
There has recently been renewed interest in the sculptor and ceramist, who died last year at 96. The price of her works is rising steadily, as witnessed by the sale of her studio contents—with a world record to boot.
The Zeeuws Veilinghuis Auction House has just held the Netherlands’ first €2M sale.
The 2022 edition of Art Basel posted record sales and splendid attendance. A return “to normal” welcomed by gallery owners.
In their 30-year career, Gabriela and Mathieu Sismann have become the go-to dealers in the antique sculpture market. In June, they are taking part in BRAFA, and, for the first time, in TEFAF Maastricht.
In this second sale of the Treillard Collection, photos, screen prints and Surrealist objects by Man Ray will go hand in hand with pictures by several of his artistic collaborators, including Jacques-André Boiffard.
For its 67th edition, BRAFA is leaving Tour & Taxis for Brussels Expo, while maintaining its highly successful eclectic, across-the-board approach.
One of Rembrandt Bugatti’s most iconic animals comes from the collection of René de Knyff, a racing driver and friend of his no less famous brother, Ettore.
Three works by Miró, watercolors by Dufy and paintings by Utrillo and Renoir will surround this oil on canvas by Berthe Morisot.
This clock made in China in the 18th century to please the Qianlong emperor not only gives the time—it comes alive from top to bottom to pay tribute to the sovereign.
According to Artprice, demand is high for works by German artists in general and Günther Förg (1952-2013) in particular.
The Hôtel Drouot welcomes visitors to the new installment of its regular collegial exhibition, known as the “Œuvres Choisies” (“Selected Works”). The exhibition presents some of the most exciting works to come up for sale in the upcoming months.
Germaine Richier, Jean Dubuffet and Bernard Buffet are the names to remember from the collection gallerist Henri Creuzevault left to his children. It proves that it is not always quantity but rarity that counts.
The Colombian painter is back in the market’s good graces, after a resounding debut was followed by a dramatic decline in his performance at auction.
One icy winter, Pieter Bruegel the Elder painted his Brabant village, Sint-Anna-Pede. In this unique work, his son, Pieter Bruegel the Younger, delivers his version of the composition, one of the famous family’s most highly-prized works.
Held following a court order, this sale gave pride of place to the Medieval and Renaissance periods with sculptures and paintings.
Phillips auction house finds itself in a storm following Russia’s aggression against Ukraine.
While Monet, Cézanne and Renoir are among the most expensive artists in the market, the Artprice 2021 report also provides a glimpse of the next generation.
A keen promoter of the wide-ranging Arts & Crafts movement, the son of designer François-Joseph Graf is poised to celebrate the 10th anniversary of his gallery with a new venue in Paris.
An American report that minimizes the risks of money laundering in the art market rekindles the controversy in Europe.
The next two sales of autographs from the Aristophil Collection include a few items that have never come up for auction before, but also a collection of historic objects and some treasures, paintings and drawings.
Foundations, museums and collectors showed a keen appetite for the 40th anniversary of the Spanish fair, which took place from February 23 to 27.
Free-spirited, headstrong Jeanne Tachard ranks among the 1920s’ leading patrons. She commissioned works from French cabinetmaker and designer Pierre Legrain and was a pioneering collector of African art.
This oil painting by Henri Matisse has never been on the market before. Long in a European collection, the work, which comes with its original support, is drawing interest from French, British and American collectors.
The success of this printed landscape created on a tablet computer by the British artist, now living in Normandy, attests to changing artistic mentalities.
This rare hanging lamp showcases Koloman Moser’s talent and the humanist ideas of the Wiener Werkstätte.
The creation of the royal tapestry workshops under Louis XIV broke with the mural approach specific to medieval and Renaissance tapestries. In these spaces dedicated to the service of power, the loom established roots as an art of the multiple, which was also dependent on painting.
Recently exhibited at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (2019) and the Centre Pompidou in Paris (2020), Senegalese artist Omar Ba (b. 1977) is now considered one of the most promising artists in the African scene.
Wang Keping, a founder of the “Stars” group in China, has never enjoyed being inside—not even in his two studios, which are wide-open to the outdoors.
There are painters who evince little liking for feminine charms—as roundly demonstrated by the fine Rigaud retrospective at the Château de Versailles—and those who beautify their models. And princesses de sang royal (princesses of royal blood) were placed in the top rank of Olympian goddesses by Jean-Marc Nattier.
True jewels of “Hispano-Moresque” art, ceramics, with a distinct metallic luster, produced in Manises, a small town near Valencia, have been inspiring collectors since the 15th century.
Given the resurgence of the pandemic and new variants of Covid-19, the art market is reorganizing its agenda for the first half of the year with intensified frequency. Clashes in store.
The most successful German artists in the market in 2021, according to an Artprice report, are none other than Wassily Kandinsky, Sigmar Polke, Lucian Freud and Gerhard Richter.
France pioneered this highly desirable specialty, which is increasingly popular with collectors.
A new director and a new location for one of the most eagerly-awaited fairs in the western US.
Will the recent misadventures of non-fungible tokens, especially the hacking of many collectors’ virtual portfolios, dampen the meteoric rise that began in 2021?
Some €50,000/80,000 will be needed for The Yellow Sound, a series of 91 gouache and graphite drawings by the Danish painter Richard Mortensen (1910-1993).
An oil painting by the master of Outsider art speaks of his friendship with the Croatian painter, whose work is poised for rediscovery
The success of the 2021 KIAF (Korea International Art Fair) is hardly an accident.
Though the two previous editions were canceled, the third edition of District 13—purely French this year—now consolidates the happy marriage between street art and Drouot.
