Rolling the Dice … The da Vinci Gamble!
Next month the Rybolovlev saga will continue … now he is going to sell his Leonardo da Vinci … a painting be bought just a few years ago for $127.5M. This time around, the auction room has pegged the price at … More…
Bacon Burns While Basquiat Sizzles
Christie’s had high hopes for their Francis Bacon Study of Red Pope (1962), expecting it to make at least £60M/$78M. Well, nobody wanted to take the plunge and create a new record price for a single piece by the artist — … More…
Filler Does Not Help
This past week the auction action started … and it was less than stellar. Sotheby’s was first with their Contemporary sale and as we have seen with other periods of art, the salerooms are having a difficult time getting really … More…
Berkshire Museum – WHY?
Here is a GREAT article by Felix Salmon in The New Yorker about the Berkshire Museum’s decision to sell 40 of its most prized works. If you have been following this story, you will enjoy reading the article. What is … More…
Why Would You Steal This?
Word has it that a thief walked into an auction house in Saint-Germain-en-Laye near Paris, and walked out with a tiny (5 x 4 inch) Renoir. “Portrait d’une jeune fille blonde” was scheduled to be sold this past weekend with an … More…
Mess With The Rhino You Might Get The Horn
Syosset resident Fengyi Zhou, an Asian art dealer, recently pleaded guilty to buying, and then trying to sell, black rhinoceros horns. Along with the horns, Zhou was given an “Endangered Species Bill of Sale,” from which Zhou was made aware that … More…
Comments on the Art Market – Volume 202
We just released Volume 202 of our Comments on the Art Market. In this issue we cover the Winnetka Show, ARC Select 2017 (opening October 28th and featuring the works of Emanuele Dascanio, Daniel Gerhartz, Vanessa Lemen, Sergio Lopez, Tim … More…
The Art World’s Dirty Side
This is a story we have all heard before, but it is important to keep it in mind when traveling through the art world … be careful. Even the biggest of galleries, Knoedler being the main one, can be fooled … More…
What If?
I do love these “what if” stories that compare the art market and stock market. Here are some of my – what ifs? What if I bought an Andy Warhol in the early 60s for $1,000? What if I bought … More…