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Curtains have fallen upon the great sales of modern and contemporary art at Sotheby’s and Christie’s. The composed and charismatic...

[Auction Preview] Upcoming Auctions at Sotheby’s and Christie’s

Exciting news for Modern and contemporary art lovers — it is May, a month to celebrate modern and contemporary artists at auction...

Affordability and Democratisation of the Art World

Buying art is always the most direct and powerful way to influence the art market’s trend and to make one’s voice (in this case, taste)...

From Patronage to Open Market: System Changes, Art Shifts

In this week’s Art Market Column, I would like to adopt a social art historical viewpoint to briefly discuss the modern history of the...

[Auction Review] Masters Week: Glamour or Alarm?

Written by: Haomin Li Masters Week is more or a less a week of blockbuster auctions at Sotheby’s New York that is dedicated entirely to...

‘Art Market Economics’, an Online Course Offered by Christie’s Education

Time to get a bit more mathy! This is what I was thinking after the end of my second and final sub-honors year at St Andrews in summer...

‘Art and its Markets’, a Four-Week Programme Offered by Sotheby’s Institute of Art

People may wonder: why art market and why the interest in it? Whenever there is a discussion of the art market, a great many people tend...

Investing in Fauvism? Henri Matisse, Vase d’Anémones (1946): Auction Performance and Market Analysis

Sotheby’s 2019 summer Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale commenced shortly after seven on the evening of the nineteenth of June...

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