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First Sale Dedicated to Calligraphy by International Auction House
Sotheby’s Doha announced the first international auction house sale dedicated solely to calligraphy works will take place on 15 December 2010. “Hurouf: The Art of the Word” features works ranging from early Islamic calligraphy to modern and contemproary Arabic, Farsi adn Ottoman Turkish works on paper and canvas. The inaugural auction marks a confidence in [...]
Tags: calligraphy, Sotheby's
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Making a Comeback: 2010 Spring Auctions
Following the modest Fall 2009 auction records, relative to the severe downturn just a year ago in 2008, patience and curiosity for any signs of a market comeback lingered. The results of the Spring 2010 auctions leave one no longer in suspense, the market is back! (or some may be easily convinced that auction record [...]
Tags: 2010 Spring Auction, Chirstie's, Guardian's, Huang Tingjian, Jia Aili, poly auction, Sotheby's, Zhang Daqian
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Headlines: Auction Frenzy
In the past month, the international art media has been saturated with articles about the dramatic success of recent auctions in China, and the growing influence of Chinese collectors. Just this week, Christie’s latest Hong Kong auction broke records with total sales of US $213 million, and a newly-released report from Art Tactic proclaims that [...]
Tags: auction, China Art Market, Christie's, Hong Kong, Sotheby's
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Optimism for Chinese contemporary art in the news
Recent auction results suggest stability in the contemporary Asian art market and various headlines confirm confidence in Chinese (contemporary) art amid global economy woes. Here are a few articles responding to the scene:
RedBox Review editor Katie Grube writes “How the financial crisis will save the soul of Chinese art” as the feature article of Beijing’s [...]
Tags: 798 Art District, AWAsia, chinese contemporary art, Katie Grube, Sotheby's
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Positive signs from Asian Art Week, New York
Despite the negative publicity regarding auction houses of late, New York’s annual Asian Art Week (March 12-21, 2009 ) ended on a positive note today with both Christie’s and Sotheby’s reporting higher-than-expected Asian art sales. Christie’s, in particular, had a good run with its deaccessed work of fine Chinese art from the the Arthur M. [...]
Tags: Asian Art Week, Christie's, contemporary Asian art sale, Sotheby's
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Artprice.com: New markets and the crisis
More bad news for contemporary Chinese art market watchers: Artprice.com recently published a market outlook that pegged new contemporary art markets, such as India and China, as most sensitive to the economic downturn. The report points to the Chinese art market’s remarkable 583% growth between January 2004 and January 2009, but is also quick to [...]
Tags: art market, artprice.com, Christie's, economic downturn, Sotheby's
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Auction Houses Lose, Markets Contract Amidst Economic Downturn
Obama’s victory may have created some hopefuls, but the global economic reality remains sobering and even more so for the art market. Following their less than cheery annual report, Art Price recently published a pessimistic economic forecast for the art market, citing 14.5% contraction in the art market since October. Art market confidence, as indicated [...]
Tags: Christie's, Philips de Pury, Sotheby's
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NY Times: Chinese Art Continues to Soar at Sotheby’s
Chinese Art Continues to Soar at Sotheby’s
by David Barbosa as originally appeared in the New York Times [Apr. 10, 2008]
BEIJING – Sotheby’s sold $51.77 million worth of Chinese contemporary art in three auctions in Hong Kong on Wednesday, allaying concerns that the global economic slowdown would depress the prices.
The highlight of the day was the [...]
Tags: Sotheby's, Yue Minjun, Zhang Xiaogang 
Upon returning to New York after her first visit to China, Soraya Broukhim provides a review of Wang Qingsong’s "When World's Collide" exhibition of photographs and videos at ICP. (
Sotheby’s auction preview at UCCA