Tonight, May 12th, is the much-anticipated sale of contemporary art at Sotheby’s in New York. Usually one of the most hyped auctions of the year, everyone was waiting to see just how the global economic downturn would effect the art market at its most elite levels. I’m thrilled to report from…a half-filled 2nd floor salesroom, [...]
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Tonight’s contemporary sale at Sotheby’s…ringside
Posted in Auctions, Events, tagged Alexander Calder, art, art auctions, Contemporary Art Evening Auction May 12th, Dan Colen, Frank Stella, Jeff Koons, Piotr Uklanski, Richard Serra, Robert Rauschenberg, Sotheby's, Tobias Meyer on May 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Bidding starts for online Aspire Auction; selling retablos
Posted in Auctions, Indulgences, Tips, tagged affordable art auctions, art, art collecting, Aspire Auctions, Christian art, Cleveland, Ohio, retablo on May 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As an amateur art collector who has been acquiring anything that strikes my fancy (and within my budget) for the last three years, I’ve recently come to the decision that I need to start focusing my collection on a few themes. It’s like a right of passage for art collectors and it’s really tough! For example, one [...]
An optimistic assessment of this week’s major auctions!?
Posted in Artists, Auctions, News, tagged art auctions, art market, Christie's, Madonna, Sotheby's, Souren Melikian, Tamara De Lempicka on May 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Souren Melikian of The New York Times must enjoy playing naysayer– he’s written the first article I’ve seen this week giving a positive spin on this week’s Modern and Impressionist sales at the major auction houses, Christie’s and Sotheby’s. When all else fails, assess the art market in terms of supply and demand! Click here [...]
Reviews of Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern Sale
Posted in Auctions, Economics, tagged auction results, Bernard Madoff, Giacometti, Picasso, Piet Mondrian, Sotheby's, Tobias Meyer on May 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
News sources were mostly down on the results of this week’s Impressionist and Modern Sale at Sotheby’s. A lack of bidders for two of the featured works, a Picasso portrait and Giacometti sculpture, brought the sale total to $61.4 million– below the low estimate of $81 million and the lowest sale total in this category [...]
Amazing fundraiser at Santa Monica Museum of Art!
Posted in Auctions, Events, tagged art, Ed Ruscha, fundraiser, Gary Baseman, John Baldessari, Phillips de Pury & Company, Raymond Pettibon, Santa Monica Museum of Art on May 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Perhaps the best idea for a fundraising event ever (after date auctions!), the Santa Monica Museum of Art sells tickets to donors for $300 that allow them to select from over 650 original 8”x10” pieces of art donated by a variety of artists. Part of the excitement comes from the fact that the artists’ names [...]
Rago posts catalogs for May fine art sales
Posted in Auctions, tagged affordable art auctions, art, auction catalogs, post-war and contemporary sale, Rago, Sol LeWitt on April 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »
For those art collectors (like myself) who can’t swing the six/seven/eight figure works that we dream of owning, I recommend you check out the fine arts catalogs posted today by Rago auction house for their mid-May sales. Both the 19th/20th century sale of American and European work as well as the post-war and contemporary sale [...]
Thanks to feministe and new Daniel Cooney photo auction!
Posted in Auctions, tagged art, Daniel Cooney Fine Art, David Levinthal, feministe, photography on April 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Thanks so much to my good friend Jill at feministe for linking to The Amateur Art Collector! In honor of her site, I thought it would be appropriate to feature this bad ass David Levinthal picture being sold in the spring photography auction of one of my top five favorite galleries in NYC, Daniel Cooney Fine Arts. Check [...]
Spending on art way down at top end of market
Posted in Auctions, Economics, tagged Anish Kapoor, art, art market, auction results, public art, sculpture on April 22, 2009 | 6 Comments »
A new article from Dow Jones Financial News Online finds that a record high 40% of contemporary works for sale at major auctions went unsold in the first quarter of 2009. Only three pieces, including the Anish Kapoor scultpure pictured above, sold for over $1 million (the Kapoor sold for approximately $1.2 million, including the [...]
Novice art collector snags Tom Thomson painting
Posted in Artists, Auctions, tagged art, auction results, Canadian art, Group of Seven, Tom Thomson on April 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Here’s a great story from Canada about a seriously novice collector (he bought his first art book less than a month ago!) who picked up an oil painting by Tom Thomson at auction for under the original reserve price: click here. For those who aren’t familiar with auction jargon, a reserve price is the agreed [...]
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