That’s a Lot of Stingel
Kenny Schachter, who is no stranger to the Stingel market, was paying attention last week when three major Rudolf Stingel pieces and six other works made $28m. If you’re an AMMpro subscriber, you’ll...
View ArticleMiró Constellation to be Sold at Sotheby’s in June
The Acquavella gallery show of Joan Miró’s Constellations closed on Friday leaving the owners of one of the handful of works from the series in private hands free to announce a sale. The consignment is...
View ArticleChristie’s Has $32m Picasso Marie-Thérèse Portrait for June
Christie’s has a portrait of Marie-Thérèse for the June Impressionist and Modern sales in London: Pablo Picasso’s tender portrait Femme écrivant (Marie-Thérèse) (1934, estimate: £25-40m) will be a...
View ArticleA Visit to Stefania Bortolami as She Opens Her New Tribeca Space with Daniel...
Stefania Bortolami has been part of New York’s art scene for years: first, as an artist liaison for Larry Gagosian—after a successful stint with the legendary London dealer Anthony d’Offay; then...
View ArticleRosenquist Estate Looks to Europe with Thaddaeus Ropac
Melanie Gerlis’s Financial Times column announces that James Rosenquist’s estate has has moved from the artist’s dealer Acquavella: the estate of American artist James Rosenquist, who died in March,...
View ArticleManzoni Foundation Joins Hauser + Wirth
The scramble for artists’ estates continues as Hauser + Wirth picks up the Manzoni estate which had let its relationship with Gagosian lapse. Hauser & Wirth has snared the Piero Manzoni Foundation...
View ArticleWhat We Need to See Next In the Basquiat Market
This analysis of the sales results for Jean-Michel Basquiat is available to AMMpro subscribers. Subscribers get the first month free on monthly subscriptions. Feel free to cancel at any time before the...
View ArticleCarol Rama Hiding in Plain Sight
Judith Benhamou-Huet Explains the Carol Rama Boomlet on her site. If you’ve been paying attention to the mid-season and day sales, the obvious activity in Carol Rama’s market should have caught your...
View ArticleVernissage TV: Wolfgang Tillmans at Fondation Beyeler
Here’s the show causing all the stir at Art Basel (and a slew of sales through Zwirner: Fondation Beyeler’s summer exhibition is dedicated to the German artist Wolfgang Tillmans. The exhibition...
View ArticleBreathless About Basquiat in Basel
A post shared by XS (@shaqirixherdan) on Jun 14, 2017 at 2:02pm PDT There seems to be a rush in the press to declare a Basquiat effect from last month’s record sale. First, Artnet got all hot an...
View ArticleReports of the Demise of Shiraga’s Market Are Greatly Exaggerated
The Art Newspaper has a long market history of the rise of Gutai and, especially, Kazuo Shiraga on the market. The story frets that somehow the Shiraga and Gutai markets are teetering. The evidence...
View ArticleThe Politics of Basquiat Scholarship
Chaédria LaBouvier raises an interesting conundrum surrounding Jean-Michel Basquiat’s art. In a piece in Apollo magazine ostensibly about the not-very-interesting (and hopelessly muddled) subject of...
View ArticleTom Joyce Fires Up Santa Fe
As Santa Fe says goodbye to the 150 folk artists from 54 countries around the world who sold a couple of million dollars of traditional crafts over the weekend at the International Folk Art Alliance’s...
View ArticlePhilip Johnson’s Fascination with Julian Schnabel
The Connecticut Post goes into some detail on Philip Johnson’s interest as a collector in Julian Schnabel’s work which explains how the Glass House in Connecticut ended up with eight Schnabels, six of...
View ArticleWas Zombie Formalism Meaningful to the Art Market in 2015?
Late last week, the New York Times made a strange leap in logic when it declared that the Contemporary art market was still recovering from the supposed collapse of the market for “Zombie Formalism,”...
View ArticleFrançoise Gilot Still Painting at 95
This nice profile of 95-year-old Françoise Gilot comes a time when her art is getting more attention on the market: Her parents wanted Gilot to become a lawyer: “I went to law school for 2 years. And...
View ArticleChristie’s Has Giacometti & Rothko from Antoni Tapies Collection for Frieze
Christie’s announces that it will sell works from the personal collection of Spanish artist Antoni Tàpies over the next year. A Giacometti work, Homme (Apollon) estimated at £800k-1.2m, will be...
View ArticleChristie’s Italian Sale Leads with Fontana Venice Work
Christie’s Italian sale in London this October will feature a number of works by Marino Marini, Alberto Burri, Michelangelo Pistoletto and Maurizio Cattelan. The lead lot is a Concetto spaziale from...
View ArticleArt Sales on Instagram, All About the Influencers
Afternoon hangs with @1767designs and @lockelandleatherworks. A post shared by Shane Miller (@shane.artistry) on Sep 20, 2017 at 12:33pm PDT Forbes looks at Nashville artist Shane Miller who makes 40%...
View ArticleDi Donna Galleries Takes on Nuvolo Estate
Emmanuel Di Donna is taking on the estate of Nuvolo, the name adopted by Giorgio Ascani, and launching with an exhibition curated by Germano Celant opening in New York on October 27th. As with all...
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