Wise to Art

These days in King’s Street, Christie’s arranges three consecutive days of Impressionist and Modern Art sales offering a total of 329 lots. The sale is available for live Internet bidding (link below right). Here are some of the superb lots:
Evening sale 4 February:
Lot 9 Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940) Les couturières, oil on canvas, estimate £4,500,000 – [...]

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Lots and lots is being said and speculated on the outcome of the present turmoil and although the experts are generally pessimistic, there are in the moody choir some tenors of hope.
Let’s once again remember what we were taught about the market being cyclic and that sense is only made on the longer term. There [...]

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And it was all so predictable… (see my post of 22 September)
After the disorderly panic that ensued after the spectacular fall of the economy – the latter in more than one sense fictional and rather worthy that of the house of Usher – we have come far towards sobering up over art’s true value. Sadly, [...]

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