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By Emily Waldorf I have enjoyed reading Sarah Thornton’s insightful freelance pieces on the art world for quite some time, so you can imagine my delight when her new book, Seven Days in the Art World, was published. The material is based on over 250 interviews with a powerful cast of characters including dealers, auction […]
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Tags: Art Basel, ArtForum, CalArts, California Institute of the Arts, Christie's, Mia Fineman, Sarah Thornton, Seven Days in the Art World, Takashi Murakami, Turner Prize, Venice Biennale
By Emily Waldorf This year’s annual fall Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary art sales produced the worst results in over a decade according to Carol Vogel’s article in The New York Times. Although over $600 million of art exchanged hands over the two week auction period, Sotheby’s lost a whopping $52 million from overly optimistic guarantees […]
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Tags: Andy Warhol, Carol Vogel, Christie's, Damien Hirst, Ed Ruscha, Edward Dolman, fall auctions, guarantees, Jeff Koons, Kazemir Malevich, Peter Doig, Ruprecht, Sotheby's, Takashi Murakami
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Call This One ‘Crisis With a Pipe’ (WSJ) Chelsea: Art Chockablock with Encyclopedic Range (NY Times) Bare Market: Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Sale (ArtForum) No Bailout at Christie’s (ARTINFO) The Gift of Beaujolais (WSJ) Arts New Oasis (WSJ)
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A Dreary Night for Contemporary Art at Sotheby’s (NY Times) Christie’s Impressionist Sale Falls Short; 44% Fails to Sell (Bloomberg) Art Auctions Come Down to Earth (IHT) New York Impressionist Sales Fall 37% Since 2007 (Bloomberg) New York Gallery Shows in November (ARTINFO) Frankenthaler’s New Way of Making Art (WSJ) Maya Lin: Once Inspired by […]
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By Katie Enna Damien Hirst’s latest antic has been all the talk of the auction world this past week. His exhibition “Beautiful Inside My Head Forever” and subsequent sale on Monday and Tuesday at Sotheby’s in London made auction history. Historically auction houses have been secondary dealers, respecting the contemporary galleries who sell an artist’s […]
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Tags: Beautiful Inside My Head Forever, Christie's, Damien Hirst, Gagosian, Haunch of Venison, Jay Jopling, Sotheby's, White Cube
A painting believed to be lost, La Surprise, a 14 inch oil on panel by 18th century master Jean-Antoine Watteau was sold in Christie’s Old Masters sale for a record setting $24.4 million. It is the highest price realized for the artist and for a pre-Impressionist French painter. In art historical circles, the painting was […]
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Tags: bought-on, Christie's, Goya, old masters, Watteau