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With a total of €24.56 million ($32.9 million), Christie’s sale of contemporary art on May 30-31 yielded an all-time high for such an auction in France. Sotheby’s first contemporary sale in Paris on May 31 was not as large, bringing €5.89 million ($7.9 million) in total, with 79 percent sold by lot, 90 percent by value. Read More

A contemporary art sale held by Shinwa Art Auction on April 14 realized ¥182.91 million ($1.5 million), up from the total of the previous, Dec. 2 sale of ¥129.14 million, or $1.1 million (ANL, 1/23/07, p. 7-8). Of the 120 lots on offer, 114, or 95 percent, found takers, most of them above their estimates. Read More

The ArteBA art fair notched record figures for display space, attendance and sales in its 16th edition that ran from May 18-22. Read More

Having completed its first successful year as the new owner of Art Chicago, Chicago’s Merchandise Mart Properties Inc. (MMPI) has acquired two other art fairs, including a leading competitor, New York’s Armory Show. Read More

Art Chicago staged an impressive comeback after the near-disaster of its 2006 edition, nearly doubling attendance and pleasing exhibitors, many of whom reported better-than-expected sales. Read More

Galerie Koller held successful sales of Old Master and 19th-century art at its spring auctions in Zurich, from March 19-24. Three paintings by Ivan Aivazovsky fetched a total of $3.7 million. Read More

The market for Swiss art is a narrow but lively one, dominated in Switzerland by the local branches of Christie’s and Sotheby’s in Zurich. Christie’s recent Swiss art sale on the evening of March 19 produced a record total of $19.7 million for 140 works sold. The auction was 95 percent sold by value, 80 percent by lot. Read More

The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF), held from March 9-18 in the Dutch city of Maastricht and now in its 20th year, drew 71,000 visitors, a 15 percent decrease from last year’s record attendance of 84,000 (ANL, 4/11/06). Read More

Art auctions in Paris and nearby cities, spanning a wide range of mediums that included sculpture, Fauvist paintings and anonymous daguerreotypes, brought strong prices last month. Read More

Modern and contemporary art started the year on a strong note at two Tokyo auctions in late January. A Shinwa Art Auction sale of modern art on Jan. 27 realized ¥886.74 million ($7.3 million), up from the November total of ¥822.7 million ($7 million). Of the 205 lots on offer, 176, or 85.85 percent, found buyers. Read More

Fern Coppedge painted the countryside around New Hope, Penn. She was especially well-respected for her snowy winter landscapes that vibrate with unexpected color. But her reputation faded after her death in 1951. “When we put together the Coppedge show [in 1990], we called it ‘A Forgotten Woman,’” says Brian Peterson, senior curator at the James A. Michener Museum, Doylestown, Penn. Read More

The Los Angeles Art Show, now in its 12th year, was held from Jan. 24-28 at the Barker Hanger, Santa Monica Airport, drawing an attendance of 20,000 and far surpassing last year’s total of 13,500 (ANL, 2/14/06, p. 8). At the same time, the fledgling fair Art LA, which ran from Jan. 25-28 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, drew 6,500 visitors, up from 5,000 last year, the organizers report. Read More