Accessibility Statement Skip Navigation
  • Resources
  • Blog
  • Journalists
  • +44 (0)20 7454 5110
  • Client Login
  • Send a Release
Return to PR Newswire homepage
  • News
  • Products
  • Contact
When typing in this field, a list of search results will appear and be automatically updated as you type.

Searching for your content...

No results found. Please change your search terms and try again.
  • News in Focus
      • Browse News Releases

      • All Public Company News
      • All Multimedia News
      • View All News Releases

      • Regulatory News

      • D/A/CH Regulatory News
      • UK Regulatory News
      • View All Regulatory News

  • Business & Money
      • Auto & Transportation

      • Aerospace & Defense
      • Air Freight
      • Airlines & Aviation
      • Automotive
      • Maritime & Shipbuilding
      • Railroads & Intermodal Transportation
      • Supply Chain/Logistics
      • Transportation, Trucking & Railroad
      • Travel
      • Trucking & Road Transportation
      • View All Auto & Transportation

      • Business Technology

      • Blockchain
      • Broadcast Tech
      • Computer & Electronics
      • Computer Hardware
      • Computer Software
      • Data Analytics
      • Electronic Commerce
      • Electronic Components
      • Electronic Design Automation
      • Financial Technology
      • High Tech Security
      • Internet Technology
      • Nanotechnology
      • Networks
      • Peripherals
      • Semiconductors
      • View All Business Technology

      • Entertain­ment & Media

      • Advertising
      • Art
      • Books
      • Entertainment
      • Film & Motion Picture
      • Magazines
      • Music
      • Publishing & Information Services
      • Radio & Podcast
      • Television
      • View All Entertain­ment & Media

      • Financial Services & Investing

      • Accounting News & Issues
      • Acquisitions, Mergers & Takeovers
      • Banking & Financial Services
      • Bankruptcy
      • Bond & Stock Ratings
      • Conference Call Announcements
      • Contracts
      • Cryptocurrency
      • Dividends
      • Earnings
      • Earnings Forecasts & Projections
      • Financing Agreements
      • Insurance
      • Investments Opinions
      • Joint Ventures
      • Mutual Funds
      • Private Placement
      • Real Estate
      • Restructuring & Recapitalisation
      • Sales Reports
      • Shareholder Activism
      • Shareholder Meetings
      • Stock Offering
      • Stock Split
      • Venture Capital
      • View All Financial Services & Investing

      • General Business

      • Awards
      • Commercial Real Estate
      • Corporate Expansion
      • Earnings
      • Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)
      • Human Resource & Workforce Management
      • Licensing
      • New Products & Services
      • Obituaries
      • Outsourcing Businesses
      • Overseas Real Estate (non-US)
      • Personnel Announcements
      • Real Estate Transactions
      • Residential Real Estate
      • Small Business Services
      • Socially Responsible Investing
      • Surveys, Polls & Research
      • Trade Show News
      • View All General Business

  • Science & Tech
      • Consumer Technology

      • Artificial Intelligence
      • Blockchain
      • Cloud Computing/Internet of Things
      • Computer Electronics
      • Computer Hardware
      • Computer Software
      • Consumer Electronics
      • Cryptocurrency
      • Data Analytics
      • Electronic Commerce
      • Electronic Gaming
      • Financial Technology
      • Mobile Entertainment
      • Multimedia & Internet
      • Peripherals
      • Social Media
      • STEM (Science, Tech, Engineering, Math)
      • Supply Chain/Logistics
      • Wireless Communications
      • View All Consumer Technology

      • Energy & Natural Resources

      • Alternative Energies
      • Chemical
      • Electrical Utilities
      • Gas
      • General Manufacturing
      • Mining
      • Mining & Metals
      • Oil & Energy
      • Oil & Gas Discoveries
      • Utilities
      • Water Utilities
      • View All Energy & Natural Resources

      • Environ­ment

      • Conservation & Recycling
      • Environmental Issues
      • Environmental Policy
      • Environmental Products & Services
      • Green Technology
      • Natural Disasters
      • View All Environ­ment

      • Heavy Industry & Manufacturing

      • Aerospace & Defence
      • Agriculture
      • Chemical
      • Construction & Building
      • General Manufacturing
      • HVAC (Heating, Ventilation & Air-Conditioning)
      • Machinery
      • Machine Tools, Metalworking & Metallurgy
      • Mining
      • Mining & Metals
      • Paper, Forest Products & Containers
      • Precious Metals
      • Textiles
      • Tobacco
      • View All Heavy Industry & Manufacturing

      • Telecomm­unications

      • Carriers & Services
      • Mobile Entertainment
      • Networks
      • Peripherals
      • Telecommunications Equipment
      • Telecommunications Industry
      • VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol)
      • Wireless Communications
      • View All Telecomm­unications

  • Lifestyle & Health
      • Consumer Products & Retail

      • Animals & Pets
      • Beers, Wines & Spirits
      • Beverages
      • Bridal Services
      • Cannabis
      • Cosmetics & Personal Care
      • Fashion
      • Food & Beverages
      • Furniture & Furnishings
      • Home Improvement
      • Household, Consumer & Cosmetics
      • Household Products
      • Jewellery
      • Non-Alcoholic Beverages
      • Office Products
      • Organic Food
      • Product Recalls
      • Restaurants
      • Retail
      • Supermarkets
      • Toys
      • View All Consumer Products & Retail

      • Entertain­ment & Media

      • Advertising
      • Art
      • Books
      • Entertainment
      • Film & Motion Picture
      • Magazines
      • Music
      • Publishing & Information Services
      • Radio & Podcast
      • Television
      • View All Entertain­ment & Media

      • Health

      • Biometrics
      • Biotechnology
      • Clinical Trials & Medical Discoveries
      • Dentistry
      • FDA Approval
      • Fitness/Wellness
      • Health Care & Hospitals
      • Health Insurance
      • Infection Control
      • International Medical Approval
      • Medical Equipment
      • Medical Pharmaceuticals
      • Mental Health
      • Pharmaceuticals
      • Supplementary Medicine
      • View All Health

      • Sports

      • General Sports
      • Outdoors, Camping & Hiking
      • Sporting Events
      • Sports Equipment & Accessories
      • View All Sports

      • Travel

      • Amusement Parks & Tourist Attractions
      • Gambling & Casinos
      • Hotels & Resorts
      • Leisure & Tourism
      • Outdoors, Camping & Hiking
      • Passenger Aviation
      • Travel Industry
      • View All Travel

  • Policy & Public Interest
      • Policy & Public Interest

      • Animal Welfare
      • Corporate Social Responsibility
      • Economic News, Trends & Analysis
      • Education
      • Environmental
      • European Government
      • Labour & Union
      • Natural Disasters
      • Not For Profit
      • Public Safety
      • View All Policy & Public Interest

  • People & Culture
      • People & Culture

      • Aboriginal, First Nations & Native American
      • African American
      • Asian American
      • Children
      • Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
      • Hispanic
      • Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual
      • Men's Interest
      • People with Disabilities
      • Religion
      • Senior Citizens
      • Veterans
      • Women
      • View All People & Culture

  • Overview
  • Distribution
  • Paid Placement
  • Multichannel Amplification
  • Disclosure Services
  • SocialBoost
  • Rooms
    • MediaRoom
    • ESG Rooms
  • AI Tools
  • General Enquiries
  • Media Enquiries
  • Partnerships
  • Hamburger menu
  • Cision PR Newswire UK provides press release distribution, targeting, monitoring, and marketing services
  • Send a Release
    • Phone

    • +44 (0)20 7454 5110 from 8 AM - 5:30 PM GMT

    • ALL CONTACT INFO
    • Contact Us

      +44 (0)20 7454 5110
      from 8 AM - 5:30 PM GMT

  • Client Login
  • Send a Release
  • Resources
  • Blog
  • Journalists
  • News in Focus
    • Browse News Releases
    • Regulatory News
  • Business & Money
    • Auto & Transportation
    • Business Technology
    • Entertain­ment & Media
    • Financial Services & Investing
    • General Business
  • Science & Tech
    • Consumer Technology
    • Energy & Natural Resources
    • Environ­ment
    • Heavy Industry & Manufacturing
    • Telecomm­unications
  • Lifestyle & Health
    • Consumer Products & Retail
    • Entertain­ment & Media
    • Health
    • Sports
    • Travel
  • Policy & Public Interest
    • Policy & Public Interest
  • People & Culture
    • People & Culture
  • Client Login
  • Send a Release
  • Resources
  • Blog
  • Journalists
  • Overview
  • Distribution
  • Paid Placement
  • Multichannel Amplification
  • Disclosure Services
  • Cision Communications Cloud®
  • AI Tools
  • Client Login
  • Send a Release
  • Resources
  • Blog
  • Journalists
  • General Enquiries
  • Media Enquiries
  • Partnerships
  • Client Login
  • Send a Release
  • Resources
  • Blog
  • Journalists

Artprice presents five Covid-proof artists

This image opens in the lightbox

News provided by

Artprice.com

15 Sep, 2020, 12:00 GMT

Share this article

Share toX

Share this article

Share toX

PARIS, Sept. 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Unsurprisingly, the Art Market posted a significant contraction in H1 2020, although less severe than in 2009. The number of lots sold at auction fell by -21% and auction turnover dropped -49%. However, the blow was definitely softened by the solutions implemented by the major auction houses to continue trading and maintain at least some of their prestige sales afloat.

Continue Reading
This image opens in the lightbox
First semester turnovers from Fine Art auctions since 2000

According to thierry Ehrmann, President and Founder of ArtMarket.com and its Artprice department, "During a chaotic first semester, Sotheby's has proved there are other ways of keeping the Market alive, notably by mixing online sales and physical sales, a so-called "Bricks and clicks" approach. Patrick Drahi's company has thus managed to maintain 70% of its turnover, and kept a very low unsold rate of just 25%. Sotheby's ended the first half of 2020 with $1.5 billion in turnover from Fine Art versus $1.03 billion for Christie's.

"The immense gap in digital culture that the Art Market was still facing a few months ago is on the way to being caught up. The global Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated an inevitable process described by Artprice for the last twenty-five years. The dematerialization of the Art Market is finally effective."

The health crisis hasn't stopped a number of artists from posting very good performances. In some cases their markets are perfectly adapted to online sales, in others, demand is so strong for their high quality works that nothing seems to dampen collectors' enthusiasm.

Artprice looks at the markets of five artists whose prices have been maintained or have continued to climb during the health crisis.

1. George Condo (1957), a dematerialized global market

George Condo is the most successful Contemporary American artist at auction at the moment. Demand is so high from all corners of the globe that his works sell just as well online as they do at physical auctions. In the first half of 2020, fifty-seven of his works were auctioned generating more than $22 million, including two new records.

His canvas Antipodal Reunion (2006) generated Sotheby's first-ever online result north of the million-dollar threshold on 21 April 2020. Two and a half months later, his painting Force Field (2010) fetched a whopping $6.9 million at Christie's in Hong Kong: a new auction record for the painter.

Nor has the lockdown/health crisis stopped George Condo's production. As of 5 November, a solo show titled Internal Riot will present the works he produced during the lockdown at Hauser & Wirth in New York. This will be Condo's first solo exhibition since he joined the prestigious Swiss gallery earlier this year. 

2. Amoako Boafo (1984), success that cuts both ways...

Completed in early 2019, Boafo's canvas Bathing Suit appeared at auction eight months later, just before the health crisis and having already changed hands three times. On the last occasion, it was collector cum advisor/speculator Stephan Simchowitz who put the work up for sale at Sotheby's in London. Estimated between $40,000 and $65,000, it reached the astonishing price of $881,500, i.e.13 times its high estimate.

Originally from Ghana, Amoako Boafo settled in Vienna, Austria, but is represented by the Chicago gallery Marian Ibrahim. He has told Bloomberg he was wary of such a sensational auction result. If he had the choice, he said, he would prefer to see his works acquired by a major museum or in a large-scale solo exhibition.

Since the health crisis began, 21 other paintings by Amoako Boafo have been offered at auction and they have all sold above their estimates... without exceeding the remarkable record set for Bathing Suit.

3. Kengo Takahashi (1982), an auction debut in the middle of lockdown

On 14 May 2020 during a Sotheby's online sale of Contemporary art, Kengo Takahashi's auction debut sculpture Flower Funeral Deer (2018) was acquired for $100,000. A veritable technical accomplishment in cast aluminum, this work is a unique piece that has already been shown at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and at the Kanazawa Museum of Contemporary Art.  

With this sale, the Japanese artist scored the world's best auction debut since the beginning of the health crisis... and he certainly wasn't alone; in fact, since March of this year, Artprice counts 356 artists who made debuts. The second best result in this ranking is for a work by Maria Farrar (born 1988) whose canvas Baguette (2017), sold for $69,500 at Christie's on 28 May 2020.

4. Claire Tabouret (1981), a charity sale pinches her market into life

A new talent on the French artistic scene, Claire Tabouret defends a figurative style of painting (mainly portraits) with palettes of colours that are sometimes sober, sometimes flamboyant, but which always manage to impart a powerful emotional charge. Her painting Les debutantes (2014) was the flagship of a charity sale organised in Paris to support healthcare staff in the midst of the Covid-19 crisis.  

A protégé of Almine Rech (in Europe), Perrotin (in Asia) and Night Gallery (in the United States), Claire Tabouret subsequently recorded an auction record of $452,000 at a Phillips sale in Hong Kong (9 July 2020) for a painting titled Les déguisements (2015).

5. Lucas Arruda (1983), melancholic and dazzling horizons

Started in 2010, Brazilian painter Lucas Arruda's series Deserto-Modelo attracted a lot of international attention. He was discovered by the Menes Wood DM gallery, but subsequently joined David Zwirner's stable in 2017. His small landscapes, flirting with abstraction, have already seduced a number of art institutions, including the Fondation Beyeler and the Francois Pinault Collection.

The first auction appearance of work from this series took place in November 2019: a small oil-on-canvas executed the previous year which fetched $312,500 at Sotheby's in New York against an estimate of $80,000 - $120,000. This year, seven of his paintings have already been presented at auction, and they have all found buyers.

Copyright 1987-2020 thierry Ehrmann www.artprice.com - www.artmarket.com

About Artmarket:

Artmarket.com is listed on Eurolist by Euronext Paris, SRD long only and Euroclear: 7478 - Bloomberg: PRC - Reuters: ARTF.

Discover Artmarket and its Artprice department on video: https://en.artprice.com/video

Artmarket and its Artprice department was founded in 1997 by its CEO, thierry Ehrmann. Artmarket and its Artprice department is controlled by Groupe Serveur, created in 1987.

See certified biography in Who's who ©:
https://imgpublic.artprice.com/img/wp/sites/11/2019/10/biographie_oct2019_WhosWho_thierryEhrmann.pdf

Artmarket is a global player in the Art Market with, among other structures, its Artprice department, world leader in the accumulation, management and exploitation of historical and current art market information in databanks containing over 30 million indices and auction results, covering more than 740,000 artists.

Artprice Images® allows unlimited access to the largest Art Market image bank in the world: no less than 180 million digital images of photographs or engraved reproductions of artworks from 1700 to the present day, commented by our art historians.

Artmarket with its Artprice department accumulates data on a permanent basis from 6300 Auction Houses and produces key Art Market information for the main press and media agencies (7,200 publications). Its 4.5 million 'members log in' users have access to ads posted by other members, a network that today represents the leading Global Standardized Marketplace® to buy and sell artworks at a fixed or bid price (auctions regulated by paragraphs 2 and 3 of Article L 321.3 of France's Commercial Code).

Artmarket with its Artprice department, has been awarded the State label "Innovative Company" by the Public Investment Bank (BPI) (for the second time in November 2018 for a new period of 3 years) which is supporting the company in its project to consolidate its position as a global player in the market art.

Artprice by Artmarket's 2019 Global Art Market Report published in February 2020:
https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-art-market-in-2019

Index of press releases posted by Artmarket with its Artprice department:
http://serveur.serveur.com/press_release/pressreleaseen.htm

Follow all the Art Market news in real time with Artmarket and its Artprice department on Facebook and Twitter:
https://www.facebook.com/artpricedotcom/ (4.9 million followers)
https://twitter.com/artmarketdotcom
https://twitter.com/artpricedotcom

Discover the alchemy and universe of Artmarket and its artprice department http://web.artprice.com/video headquartered at the famous Organe Contemporary Art Museum "The Abode of Chaos" (dixit The New York Times): https://issuu.com/demeureduchaos/docs/demeureduchaos-abodeofchaos-opus-ix-1999-2013
L'Obs - The Museum of the Future: https://youtu.be/29LXBPJrs-o
https://www.facebook.com/la.demeure.du.chaos.theabodeofchaos999
(4.5 million followers)
https://vimeo.com/124643720

Logo - https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/817151/Artprice_Logo.jpg  
Photo - https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/1273863/Fine_Art_Infographic.jpg

Contact Artmarket.com and its Artprice department:

Contact: Thierry Ehrmann, ir@artmarket.com

Related Links

www.artprice.com

Modal title

Contact PR Newswire

  • +44 (0)20 7454 5110
    from 8 AM - 5:30 PM GMT
  • General Enquiries
  • Media Enquiries
  • Partnerships

Products

  • Content Distribution
  • Multimedia Services
  • Disclosure Services
  • Cision Communications Cloud®

About

  • About PR Newswire
  • About Cision
  • Partnering Opportunities
  • Careers
  • Accessibility Statement
  • APAC
  • APAC - Simplified Chinese
  • APAC - Traditional Chinese
  • Brazil
  • Canada
  • Czech
  • Denmark
  • Finland
  • France
  • Germany
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • Israel
  • Japan
  • Korea
  • Mexico
  • Middle East
  • Middle East - Arabic
  • Netherlands
  • Norway
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Russia
  • Slovakia
  • Spain
  • Sweden
  • United States
  • Vietnam

My Services

  • All News Releases
  • Customer Portal
  • Resources
  • Blog
  • Journalists
  • Data Privacy

Do not sell or share my personal information:

  • Submit via Privacy@cision.com 
  • Call Privacy toll-free: 877-297-8921

Contact PR Newswire

Products

About

My Services
  • All News Releases
  • Customer Portal
  • Resources
  • Blog
  • Journalists
+44 (0)20 7454 5110
from 8 AM - 5:30 PM GMT
  • Terms of Use
  • Privacy Policy
  • Information Security Policy
  • Site Map
  • RSS
  • Cookie Settings
Copyright © 2025 PR Newswire Europe Limited. All Rights Reserved. A Cision company.