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By Adrian Darmon
NEW HEADS FOR SOTHEBY'S DEPARTMENTS OF CONTEMPOARY, MODERN AND IMPRESSIONIST ART
Sotheby's appointed on January 31, 2014 Alexander Rotter and Cheyenne Westphal as its new heads of its Contempary art department after Tobias Meyer left the group at the end of November 2013 while Helena Newman and Simon shaw have been designated to manage its sales of Impressionist and Modern art.
THE CLEVELAND DISMISSED CLAIMS ABOUT VAN GOGH FORGERIES Following claims made by two authors of a new eBook that eight paintings By Vincent Van Gogh on view at the Philipps collection were fakes, the Cleveland Museum of Art dismissed such allegations on January 28th 2014. Link
13,6 MILLION USD FOR THE ROTHSCHILD PRAYERBOOK
The Rothschild Prayerbook,” a magnificent masterpiece of Renaissance art with an illustrious provenance, sold at Christie's New York on January 28, 2014 for 13,605,000 USD (£8,215,583 /EUR9,931,650), maintaining its auction record for an illuminated manuscript but not equalling its 1999 result in terms of money value.
EMILE SCHUFFENECKER, A MAJOR FORGER OF VAN GOGH WORKS ACCORDING TO TWO SPECIALISTS by Adrian Darmon Hanspeter Born and Benoît Landais, two specialists of Vincent Van Gogh's works, have claimed that Paul Gauguin's friend Emile Schuffenecker had forged many of his works, including the famed "Sunflowers" sold for a world record price by Christie's in 1987. Link
CHRISTIE'S RETURNS UP BY 16% IN 2013 Christie's world Art Sales in 2013 totalled a record 4.54 billion GBP (7.13 billion US), up 16% with 30% of new buyers while sales in China and India increased by 44%. Link
THE ART MARKET POISONED BY MONEY
Tobias Meyer, who was forced to resign from Sotheby's two months ago, summed up in 2006 that the best art was the most expensive thus proving that the art market has become the realm of those who had huge sums of money at their disposal.
BEST WISHES TO OUR READERS Artcult wishes a great 2014 year to its readers
THE DEATH OF THE TRADITIONAL ART MARKET by Adrian Darmon The art market has been bubbling with record sales during the year 2013 in Asia, New York and London thanks to highly sought contemporary art pieces or ancient Chinese calligraphies and objects to present rosy prospects for 2014 but behind such heavenly screen lay the dire fact that the traditional market is nearing its death. Link
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NEW HEADS FOR SOTHEBY'S DEPARTMENTS OF CONTEMPOARY, MODERN AND IMPRESSIONIST ART
