Art Auction Houses Want to Deal
These “incentives” seem to be things that have always been in place. If you have the really hot ‘goods’, you can often strike a very attractive deal. In addition, the smaller salerooms have always been ready to cut fees and commissions to … More…
AVAILABLE: Julien Dupre’s “Le Repos dans les Champs”
Source: Le Repos dans les Champs – we have now had the pleasure of offering for sale this very unique and important painting by the 19th century French Realist artist Julien Dupre (1851-1910) for the third time in our history. Le Repos … More…
As artists play the field, galleries are having to adapt
As the market continues to grow and galleries expand, very successful artists have the ability to ‘play the field’ … exhibiting with more than one dealer at a time. This can be very helpful to the lucky dealers and the … More…
A Rare Duchamp Ready-Made (“Porte-bouteilles’’ ) to be Sold.
One of 5 surviving “ready-made” sculptures by Marcel Duchamp will be offered for sale in October at a gallery in Paris. The piece, owned by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation will be the centerpiece of an exhibit at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac. The … More…
Artists, Don’t Destroy Your Works: Missing part of lost Magritte painting discovered
This is a lesson for all you artists out there … see the problems you can cause when you reuse a canvas. Decades later people spend years looking for the ‘lost’ work! In this instance, Magritte cut up a painting (The … More…
