-
1 week ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Anny Shaw |Ermanno Rivetti |Scott Reyburn
The art market is one of the many international business sectors that is wondering what is going to happen to its sales figures in 2025 as US President Donald Trump’s wildly unpredictable executive orders—and a whole lot else—disrupt the global economy.
-
3 weeks ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Melanie Gerlis |Scott Reyburn |Kabir Jhala
Christie’s and Sotheby’s went head-to-head in Hong Kong last week, creating an auction season around the city’s Art Basel fair for the first time, which helped to boost the energy levels in the salerooms. Each auction house brought slimmer evening sales than the last time they were here (Christie’s in September, Sotheby’s in November), with fewer big-hitting blue-chip works.
-
1 month ago | 
businessandamerica.com | Scott Reyburn
A rediscovered painting of an African prince by Gustav Klimt that captured visitors’ attention at the TEFAF Maastricht fair in the Netherlands is under negotiation for sale, the Vienna-based gallery offering the work said as the event closed on Thursday evening.
-
1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Scott Reyburn
Wienerroither and Kohlbacher says Klimt's painting came to light in 2023 when an Austrian couple brought the unsigned work, crudely framed and in a grimy condition at the time, into the gallery.
-
1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Anna Brady |Anny Shaw |Scott Reyburn
New government policies, political shifts, economic downturns and changing market dynamics—all are having a marked impact on salaries in the art industry, according to the second SML Art Market Talent Report, released today. Compiled by the specialist recruitment company SML and the analytics firm ArtTactic, the report draws from 1,590 responses completed between 2023 to 2024 and paints a less than rosy picture.
-
1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Scott Reyburn
A medieval manuscript unseen for 60 years, hand-painted by the renowned French illuminator Jean Pichore and his workshop, is one of the most spectacular exhibits at the 38th annual edition of the TEFAF Maastricht fair, which previewed to invited guests on Thursday. "This is world history," said Dr. Jörn Günther, an illuminated manuscript dealer in Switzerland, pointing to an illustration in a book of hours.
-
1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Scott Reyburn |Anny Shaw |Riah Pryor
This month sees the 38th edition of Tefaf Maastricht, the last remaining major international fair that primarily showcases pre-20th century art and objects. The event allows Old Masters, which for centuries were the trade’s most valuable and coveted items, but which have now fallen out of fashion, to briefly enjoy a little limelight in a market now dominated by the contemporary. Dating back to 1988, Tefaf Maastricht, which this year features 266 participating dealers, has become an outlier.
-
1 month ago | 
artnewspaper.fr | Scott Reyburn
Malgré le chaos géopolitique mondial, l’ambiance et les résultats du marché international de l’art ont nettement été positifs le 5 mars 2025 à Londres. Christie’s a totalisé 130,3 millions de livres sterling (près de 155 millions d’euros), frais compris, lors d’une double vente marathon d’art des XXᵉ et XXIᵉ siècles et d’œuvres surréalistes.
-
1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Scott Reyburn |Kabir Jhala
Despite the outside world’s continuing slide into geopolitical chaos, the moo—and the numbers—in the international art market were given a definite lift last night in London as Christie’s turned over £130.3m (with fees) at a marathon double-header auction of 20th and 21st century and Surrealist art. The total was more than double the £62.5m (with fees) achieved the previous evening at Sotheby’s rival sale of Modern and contemporary works.
-
1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Scott Reyburn |Anny Shaw |Benjamin Sutton |Kabir Jhala
Banksy always draws a crowd. Last night, some 500 people crammed into Sotheby’s to see how his 2005 painting, Crude Oil (Vettriano), would perform in the auction house’s annual March evening auction of Modern and contemporary works in London. Art world outsiders could have been forgiven for thinking the market was booming once again.
