New York Times online By CELESTINE BOHLEN Published: April 1, 2013 PARIS — Art Paris Art Fair, the contemporary art fair just closed at the majestic Grand Palais, didn’t have to look far to give historical context to the homage it’s paying this year to Russian art. ‘‘Pinocchio Portrait No. 2,’’ by Igor Makarevich.   Yevgeniy
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  Sotheby’s has partnered with Tefaf, the European Fine Art Fair, which finishes today in Maastricht, to launch an art fair in Beijing in September 2014. Tefaf said they were “exploring the possibilities” of developing the event via Sotheby’s joint venture with GeHua, which will enable it to hold sales in the Beijing Freeport and
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The Fine Art Fair at Maastricht is the first big art fair of the year and tends to be a barometer of the mood in the art market.  Initial reports indicate that the strong results seen in the auction rooms are continuing at Maastricht and the mood of dealers is good with artworks, artifacts and
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    © RIA Novosti. Alexandr Kryazhev Art guru Guelman sees new prospects for Russia’s market by Vladimir Kozlov at 15/03/2013 13:24 The rarified atmosphere of Russia’s art market in the ’90s was highly lucrative for a few select artists, but political and economic changes since the turn of the century are driving an expansion, said gallery owner and cultural
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Art Radar Asia – March 1, 2013 At 27, Maria Baibakova is adding another entry to an already impressive resume. In a bid to expand its global reach, Artspace.com, an online marketplace for contemporary art sales, revealed on 19 February 2013 that it has appointed Russian collector Maria Baibakova as Strategic Director. The move highlights a trend towards the
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Tuesday, 4th December 2012 With some white spirit and a restorer , your painting can go from rubbish to Rubens or visa versa, says Ivan Lindsay PAINTINGS, LIKE HUMANS, can do with a touch-up from time to time. Instead of doctors abrading unsightly bumps and hairdressers disguising the march of time with dyes, restorers remove
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Art Assure, the art investment/advisory bank run by Asher Edelman offers the following useful analysis on the art market in 2013 and its historic performance over the last 10 years as measured by comparison with the stock market and gold. Edelman was a successful wall street financier, taught a course on ‘Corporate raiding(based on the
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The Independent, London, Wednesday 6th February, Nick Clark. Women cannot paint well, despite making up the majority of art students, according to one of Europe’s pre-eminent post-war artists. Germany’s Georg Baselitz has dismissed centuries of female artists at a stroke – from Artemisia Gentileschi and Frida Kahlo to Bridget Riley and Paula Rego – in
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The press that the art world attracts is way out of proportion to the real size of the market.  Journalists are fascinated by the enormous prices that art can achieve and regular folk puzzle over how others can afford to pay such huge prices for art when they are struggling to pay their bills.  
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MacDougall’s auction house kicks off London’s Russian sales week with its auction on November 25th.  This week of sales devoted to Russian art happens twice a year…the other week is in late June, and it brings many of those interested in acquiring Russian works of art to London.  The sales consist of paintings, sculpture and
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