New York art dealer Christoph Van de Weghe had eight works by Damien Hirst in his booth at the Art Basel Miami Beach fair earlier this month. He sold only two.Read the Bloomberg story by Katya Kazakina here.
The small “spin” and “butterfly” paintings went for $160,000 each, compared with the asking price of $185,000. The unsold works included an $850,000 cabinet filled with cigarette butts and a blue canvas with 15 butterflies...
...Three months after Hirst sold more than 200 of his works for 111.5 million pounds ($199 million) at Sotheby’s in London, his market has contracted dramatically.
At the bellwether November sales in New York, 11 out of 17 Hirst lots failed to find buyers at three auction houses...
...“the feeling is that the Hirst market has been stretched a bit too far, almost as if it snapped and backfired.”
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Friday, December 19, 2008
And another one down...
Another one bites the dust
Reflecting the recent nose dive in confidence in the art and antiquities markets, the International Asian Art Fair held each spring in Manhattan has been canceled.Read the NYT story here.
Lino Tagliapietra
(Via DCist) The Lino Tagliapietra in Retrospect: A Modern Renaissance in Glass exhibition at the Renwick Gallery:
(Via DCist) The Lino Tagliapietra in Retrospect: A Modern Renaissance in Glass exhibition at the Renwick Gallery: