Naomi Campbell has opened up about her 25-year-long glittering yet controversial career. The 40-year-old British supermodel talked about her illustrious career with New York art gallery owner Tony Shafrazi for the Interview Magazine. Naomi was discovered while out shopping in London at the age of 15 and appeared on the cover of Elle the following [...]
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Michael Jackson Earns More in Death than in Life
June 24th, 2010 |
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It has become confirmed that Michael Jackson earned more after his death than being alive. This situation repeats Elvis Presley and Yves Saint Laurent’s cases. Their estates grew a lot after their death. We all know that the singer’s estate was going to collapse as Michael Jackson had to pay off about $500 million of [...]
How China bucked the trend
March 3rd, 2010 |
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What really happened in 2009
ONE of the common assumptions about the art market in 2009 was that the stunning success of the three-day Yves Saint Laurent/Pierre Berge sale in Paris—the highest grossing single-owner sale ever—would allow France to reclaim its position as the third-biggest art market in the world after America and Britain. It didn’t.
Clare McAndrew, a Dublin-based analyst of art-market statistics and the founder of Arts Economics, was the first to prove categorically that France’s century-long pre-eminence in the art world had been usurped by China. That was in 2007, and many presumed it was no more than a blip. But Ms McAndrew’s most recent report, the latest in a series commissioned by The European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF) and published to coincide with the start of TEFAF’s Maastricht art fair on March 12th, proves categorically that China’s art market is getting bigger all the time. …
Breaking a sweat
February 12th, 2010 |
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Christie’s and Sotheby’s jockey for position in 2010
IN 2009 Christie’s year on year sales fell by a third, but it was definitely Christie’s year. The private auction house, owned by Francois Pinault, a French luxury-goods billionaire, sold four of the year’s five most-expensive works and seven of the top ten. Of the pieces that fetched more than $10m in 2009, 61% had been sold by Christie’s. Its year was bookended by two high points: the hugely successful Yves Saint Laurent sale in Paris in February—the biggest single-owner auction ever—and an electrifying Old Master sale in early December, when two bidders fought over a small pencil drawing by Raphael, taking the artist to a new record of GBP29.2m ($47.9m), the second-highest price ever paid at auction for an Old Master.
Harold Wilson once said that a week was a long time in politics. He might as well have been talking about the art market, for in the past few weeks the auction house’s fortunes appear to have been completely reversed. …