Showing posts with label Freud. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Freud. Show all posts
Monday, 6 April 2009
2008
Artprice.com has just published Art market trends 2008. Last year, the top-10 artists in terms of turnover at auction were: Picasso, Bacon, Warhol, Hirst, Monet, Giacometti, Richter, Degas, Fontana, and Klein. The list shows how post-war art has become the most important section of the market. (Koons, Basquiat, Freud, Prince, and Rothko can all be found between places 11 and 20.)
Friday, 2 May 2008
The recipe for a record price
Auction house hype, media frenzy, and billionaire buyers.
Nobody understands better than an auction house that price appreciation of this magnitude is seldom intrinsic to the work.
Sunday, 9 March 2008
Freudian times
Two important Lucian Freud exhibitions are held this year, one at each side of the Atlantic. In New York, the MoMa hosts 'Lucian Freud: The Painter's Etchings' (until March 10). Art Knowledge News reviews this show. In The Hague, you can go to an impressive retrospective:
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