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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Thursday, December 17, 2009

Forbes' Susan Adams on collecting trends
Forbes - December 16th, 2009 16:14

2010: More art will sell online, the market will be driven by non-American buyers, and prices for Post-War and contemporary art will inch back up as sellers return with top-notch examples. With the bellwether fall auctions in New York performing well---although not at 2007 levels---art prices in most categories have found their level since the economic crisis blew up a year ago. Adams suggests that online art commerce will accelerate, citing Christie's reported $95 million worth of bids ...

Piqued prince pulled his treasures from Royal Academy show
Times Online - December 17th, 2009 02:50

One of the biggest art exhibitions planned for next year has collapsed because of a row between a European prince and the U.K's HM Revenue & Customs. Masterpieces by Rubens and Van Dyck were among the treasures from the royal family of Liechtenstein’s collection, which were expected to draw huge crowds to the Royal Academy of Arts (RA). But yesterday Prince Hans-Adam II cancelled the loans because a long-running dispute involving export licences and a Spanish Renaissance ...

Emil Filla sold at Bonhams & Butterfields

Market for Czech art thriving in downturn
Prague Monitor - December 16th, 2009 17:29

Art prices in the Czech Republic rose in 2009 in spite of the economic crisis. Last year art collectors spent 660 million crowns at Czech auctions, while this year the total sum will amount to over 700 million. A painting by modernist Frantisek Kupka (1871—1957), "En degrades/Verticales," sold for 26 million crowns. Czech surrealists have also fared well at auctions worldwide. Emil Filla's (1882-1953) work soared to an auction record $266,000 at Bonhams & Butterfields ...

Andy Warhol's "200 One Dollar Bills" at Sotheby's

Contemporary art prices recalibrated in '09
Bloomberg - December 16th, 2009 18:23

Annual sales of contemporary art slumped 75 percent at the two largest auction houses’ evening sales in 2009. Sotheby’s and Christie’s International made a combined total of $482.3 million with fees from their five regular “Part I” sales of high-value art in New York and London, down from $1.97 billion in 2008. (Both auction houses sold undisclosed amounts in private sales.) The auction market regained confidence with Sotheby's $43.8 million Andy Warhol, ...

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