Skate’s Takes a Look at the ‘Masterpiece’ Market
In its Market Notes section, Skate’s offers a deep dive into its Top 10,000 list, which tracks the 10,000 highest auction prices on record. The big news, according to its calculations: over…
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Skate’s: China Aims to Buoy Art Market Through Poly Auction House
Over in its Market Notes section, Skate’s has taken a look at the intriguing machinations of Poly Culture Group, the third-largest auction house in the world, which is owned by the…
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Here’s a Look at Attendance Numbers at Recent Art Fairs
Skate’s Art Market Research has released its quarterly report on art fairs, which examines attendance numbers and exhibitor totals, and above is a brief summary of some of its findings in graph form<a href="/art-news/market/how-are-art-fairs-doing-this-year-3955/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"…
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How Do Art Businesses Stack Up on Facebook?
This week, Skate’s Art Market Research took a look at the state of competition among art businesses on Facebook, and revealed that brand recognition is not…
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Skate’s Releases Report On Art Fairs
Earlier today the art market analysis service Skate’s released its Art Fairs Report, part of a series of 16 annual reports covering, “art industry earnings and statistics from listed…
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The Warhol Test Christies Tonight
It is difficult to gauge the extent to which the anonymous buyers who acquired Andy Warhol's Marilyn (1962) a dozen years ago and Big Campbell's Soup Can with Can Opener (1962) 24 years ago, both of…
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The Market Pays Homage to Louise Bourgeois
At the time of her death on May 31, Louise Bourgeois was the 16th most valuable living artist based on the combined auction value of her works. Among the 5,000 most valuable works of art ever sold…
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The Currency of Russian Portraits
While much of the art world's attention this month is focused on Art Basel and the major upcoming Impressionist and Modern sales, last week's sales of Russian art in London brought impressive results …
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Big Family Big Bargain
Auction houses generally err on the side of aggressive pricing with their pre-sale estimates. It is a rare day that we find a work seriously under-valued when compared with the track records of simila…
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