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In the last 10 years the Cuban art market has jumped to the forefront of visibility in the worldwide art market, with the consolidation of the Cuban contemporary art scene thanks to the establishment of the Havana Bienal in 1984, the staging of numerous exhibitions and the introduction of the Latin American auctions.
(Fiona Long)
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| Tomás Sánchez,
Contemplador de la cascada |
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Thierry Fontaine is among the young artists to look out for. He was born in 1969 in the French island of La Réunion, in the Indian Ocean, where he still lives and works, and in 2000 he became internationally acclaimed through his participation in the collective Fotoarbeiten at the Kunst-Werke in Berlin and exhibiting in the annual Special Projects Program of the P.S.1 in New York.
(Elisa Fulco)
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| Thierry Fontaine,
Sculpture-2-La Réunion, 1998 |
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Works by Joan Mirò performed exceptionally well at the close of last year. On the 6th of November Portrait de Mme K from 1924 was hammered for $ 12,656,000 (€ 14,066,100) at Christie’s New York, setting the new auction record for the artist. All the experts interviewed agree that prices for Mirò’s work have been steady over the years to such an extent that the artist may be considered a blue chip in the art world.
(Annalisa Rossi)
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| Line graph of sale prices for Joan Mirò 1990-2001: the blue line indicates the actual prices, the red line corresponds to inflation
SourceGabrius Art Index
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Something is changing in the market for Osvaldo Licini (1894-1958). To date the artist has been chiefly appreciated by national collectors, but the painter from the Marche region is also gradually beginning to gather approval abroad, as witness his recent debut on the international market at the Italian Sale held in October at Christie's London. A cautious start, but nonetheless promising.
(Francesca Brambilla)
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| Line graph of sale prices for Osvaldo Licini from 1990-2001: the blue line indicates the actual prices, the red line corresponds to inflation |
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Within two years of Inka Essenhigh’s first solo exhibition in 1997, the prices for her paintings had risen considerably. The first auction sales in May doubled prices of works sold only a few years ago, but the Contemporary art sales held in November in New York showed a dip in quotes, perhaps due to the current difficult economical situation.
(Martha Schwendener)
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| Sales of Inka Essenhigh’s artworks (2001),
Source Gabrius Art Index |
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The market for Cecily Brown’s paintings has mirrored the brisk pace with which the artist entered the art world. Her first New York show was at Deitch Projects in 1997, shortly after she moved to the U.S., and by the end of last year, her paintings were already selling on the secondary market.
(Martha Schwendener)
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| Cecily Brown,
Untitled, 1997 |
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In the last two years the international art market has turned its attention to two artists Markus Muntean (Gratz, 1962) and Adi Rosenblum (Haifa, 1962). At the end of the Nineties the duo, Viennese by adoption, became well-known, particularly for their large acrylic canvases depicting trendy adolescents in pensive or bored moods. Since 1999, quotes for Muntean/Rosenblum have almost doubled.
(Elisa Paulsen)
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| Muntean/Rosenblum,
Untitled (Sometimes I scare myself…), 2000 |
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Since their first joint show staged in 1996 in Alberto Peola’s gallery in Turin, market prices for works by Botto & Bruno have risen considerably. As witness the prices fetched today compared to those of five years ago.
(Elisa Paulsen)
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| Botto & Bruno,
Something in the sky, 2001 |
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The Palazzo Forti in Verona is currently hosting an exhibition of the artist Giulio Paolini, which runs until the 6th of January 2002. Winner of the international Koinè lifetime art prize, this eclectic Italian artist was born in Genoa in 1940, and by 1967 had exhibited with the "Arte Povera" group, and emerged as a leading conceptual artist. His collages from the 1960’s are available at auction with low to mid values.
(Francesca Brambilla)
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| Giulio Paolini
Mimesi, 1975 |
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Los Angeles-based artist Charles Ray (b. 1953) has been included in everything from Venice and Whitney Biennials to Documenta and "Post-Human" at FAE, Lausanne in 1992, curated by Jeffrey Deitch, which toured Europe in the early 1990’s. He’s had retrospectives at the Whitney Museum, both Los Angeles and Chicago MOCA’s and in the near future, he’ll collaborate with the Fondazione Prada, Milan.
(Martha Schwendener)
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