Tag: art-market
With artist jewelry, treat yourself to a work at an affordable price
An Anish Kapoor on your finger? A Louise Bourgeois hanging on the lapel of a jacket? A François Morellet around your neck? Artists sometimes find themselves competing with jewelers. Except…
The president of the Society of Friends of the Louvre in the hot seat
At 78 years old, Louis-Antoine Prat still has the eye and the mustache that evoke his strokes of brilliance, whether they are the trophies that he brought into the collections…
In 2023, a cold snap on the art market
En appearance, the art market is doing like a charm. In November, in just ten days, Sotheby’s and Christie’s totaled nearly $2 billion in sales of works in New York.…
Old paintings: place for women artists
It is a tragedy with cheerful colors: young Athenian girls destined to be delivered to the Minotaur are drawn by lot. Remaining in the same family for a century, this…
Why fake Brancusi thrive in the art market
OLIVIER BALEZ It’s a funny piaf, a firecracker blue, swollen like a wineskin, with its beak straightened. For a year, this plaster bird has been sitting in Gilles Perrault’s office,…
an American stamp worth more than 2 million dollars
This American stamp reached 2,006,000 dollars on November 8 in New York. DR/ROBERT A. SIEGEL AUCTION GALLERIES, INC. Never before seen: 1.7 million dollars (approximately 1.59 million euros) under the…
In New York, a storm of record auctions, including a Monet sold for $74 million
Christie’s, owned by the Artémis holding of French billionaire François Pinault, and its competitor Sotheby’s, which belongs to Franco-Israeli billionaire Patrick Drahi, are in the middle of the fall auction…
A Picasso fetches $139 million in New York auction
Visitors in front of “Woman with a Watch”, by Picasso, before the sale of the Landau collection, at Sotheby’s in New York, September 13, 2023. BRYAN R. SMITH / AFP…
how to negotiate an inherited collection
Philippe de La Renotière von Ferrary (1850-1917), Léon Dubus (1894-1981), John E. du Pont (1938-2010)… The collections of these famous philatelists were dispersed after their death, during specialized sales for…
the time is no longer for speculation
This Sky Moon Tourbillon, from Patek Philippe, was sold for $5.8 million (5.5 million euros) in March 2023. PATEK PHILIPPE A watch from the legendary Geneva watchmaker Patek Philippe, called…