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Contemporary Art Market the Artprice Annual Report 2013 CONTEMPORARY ART MARKET THE ARTPRICE ANNUAL REPORT 2013 THE LATEST TRENDS THE AGES OF CONTEMPORARY ART THE TOP-SELLING 500 ARTISTS WORLDWIDE SUMMARY THE 2013 CONTEMPORARY ART MARKET Introduction ............................................................... page 5 THE LATEST TRENDS .................................... page 9 United States: the Basquiat trump card .................................. page 11 .......................................... page 12 Hong Kong .............................................................. page 13 The market opens up in mainland China .................................... page 14 .................................. page 15 The market leaders: physical deployments ................................... page 16 ...................................... page 17 A soaring high-end market ................................................. page 18 Globalisation and new players .............................................. page 20 Doha: a world art capital .................................................. page 21 ............................................................ page 24 THE AGES OF CONTEMPORARY ART ................................................... page 25 Jean-Michel Basquiat: a name to reckon with ................................. page 25 Zeng Fanzhi: China’s highest rating artist this year ............................ page 28 . page 29 Andreas Gursky: a photographic career ...................................... page 30 Emerging artists .......................................................... page 33 The new “Made in USA” generation ........................................ page 35 ................................. page 38 COLLECTORS’ INSIGHT ................................................ page 41 Karl Pernull (Austria) ...................................................... page 41 David Brolliet (Switzerland) ................................................ page 41 ................................................ page 42 Bernard Magrez (France) .................................................. page 42 GALLERIES’ INSIGHT ................................... page 43 ......................... page 43 (Paris, Brussels, Beijing) .................................................... page 43 ................................... page 45 (Beijing, Hong Kong) ..................................................... page 45 TOP 500 CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS (2012/2013) ........................ page 47 THE ARTPRICE HEADQUARTERS CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM ....... page 60 page 3 INTRODUCTION THE 2013 CONTEMPORARY ART MARKET Introduction Thierry Ehrmann creative generations on the market. In this report, this diversity is un- Sculptor, Artprice and Server Group classic names and up-and-coming artists. will be given, buyers’ premiums included, so as to give our readership a clearer page 5 access to art market data. Check the price of our subscriptionsgive yourdirectly specialists online and(from valuation $119* per departments user and perunlimited year). THE LATEST TRENDS THE LATEST TRENDS ity to adapt to economic crises. You may remember that contemporary art at- tracted some impressively high bids between 2005 and 2008, swept along not only - helped to speed up the bidding rate. Between 2007 and 20081 stable. Prices soared, reaching a peak in 20072. During this period, contemporary Contemporary Art - Price index Base ¤100 in 2002 180 160 140 120 100 80 60 & 40 .co % ic $ # 20 ⁄ ! "!# 0 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 This year, the art market has slightly slowed down in comparison with all previ- as a result becoming rarer. The result was ¤207 million down on the previous year, 1 The July 2007 – June 2008 period. page 7 prosperous in auction history1. The global art market has nonetheless garnered - - - Masters or modern art. It is more vulnerable to manipulated share prices and value and revenues divided by 13 between July 2009 and June 2010 compared with the 2008 – 2009 period. Contemporary Art Auction Turnover - Breakdown by country (July 2012 – June 2013) Sweden United Kingdom 0.56% 21.10% Germany 0.75% France Turkey 2.79% USA 0.65% 33.72% China Qatar 33.70% 0.60% Taiwan 0.95% Other 4.50% Australia 0.69% !"#r%&r'()*(+, In a depressed global economic context, art is an alternative investment that re- - - 1 ¤8.922 billion in 2011 – 2012 compared with ¤8.092 billion this year. page 8 THE LATEST TRENDS pears particularly optimistic in the US this year, where real estate is beginning to down and results have been below expectations1. Meanwhile, the euro zone crisis down by 62%2 3 - works at a good price in situ Contemporary Art - Auction Turnover – Breakdown by semester 1st Half 2nd Half ¤ 600,000,000 m ¤ 500,000,000 () e. ¤ 400,000,000 ! "#$%&$'( ¤ 300,000,000 ¤ 200,000,000 ¤ 100,000,000 ¤ 0 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 down by 9%), contemporary art has gained, posting an additional ¤140 million –15% more than last year– meaning that it has been able to generate more than question. This rise in the contemporary market is not due to rocketing sales, which remained steady at around 45,000 lots. The answer lies in the high-end market, same period in 2011 – 2012. 2013 period. page 9 in contemporary art did better than modern masters this year: Basquiat’s top bid 1Tulips were three times more expensive than a bronze by Giacometti2, and a painting by 3 by ¤2.7 million. There are - Art Market - 2012-2013 Turnover Breakdown by periods 47.6% Modern Post war Contemporary ( o #c ' 19th Century 9.4% c #& % #$ "! Old Masters ! 9.5% 20.6% 13.0% on 30 January 20134 Nymphéas Femme assise près d’une fenêtre, 1932, Sotheby’s, New York, 5 February 2013. La Jambe, 1947, Christie’s, New York, 7 November 2012. La Musique or l’Orchestre Rouge or Les Sept Arts 4 The Madonna and Child page 10 THE LATEST TRENDS Europe, smashing Fra Bartolomeo’s previous record by ¤5.2 million –in line with high prices bid by some buyers at post-war and contemporary art sales. For ex- ample, the American artist Jackson Pollock (1912 – 1956) added not ¤5.2 million but ¤11.7 million to his previous record this year with the 1948 dripping Number 191Number 19 is not a contemporary work but a historical one in 20th to his previous record with Tulips 2. Admittedly, the work is monumental (over 2 m x 4.5 m x 5.2 m), and is even the largest ever to have gone to auction. But unlike Fra Bartolomeo’s or Pollock’s works, it is not unique, but a sculpture produced in Top 10 Contemporary Artists Sold in the USA Sold ank R Artist Auction sales turnover lots Max. Hammer Price 1 BASQUIAT Jean-Michel (1960-1988) ¤101,687,320 49 ¤33,508,050 2 KOONS Jeff (1955) ¤38,915,011 48 ¤23,631,000 3 WOOL Christopher (1955) ¤17,320,975 28 ¤2,713,550 4 GROTJAHN Mark (1968) ¤12,831,991 18 ¤4,774,620 5 PRINCE Richard (1949) ¤8,377,700 42 ¤924,120 6 CURRIN John (1962) ¤7,494,460 13 ¤1,927,000 7 MURAKAMI Takashi (1962) ¤5,601,641 69 ¤2,909,310 com 8 KAPOOR Anish (1954) ¤4,908,905 16 ¤1,022,190 . 9 STINGEL Rudolf (1956) ¤4,423,731 14 ¤864,270 10 CONDO George (1957) ¤3,920,493 34 ¤866,470 © artprice United States: the Basquiat trump card Contemporary art has never known such glory in the United States. The turn- - - this year. 1 Dripping Number 19 - Number 4 2 Tulips- mium and over ¤26.5 million including commission, Christie’s, New York, 14 November 2012. page 11 - topher Wool. This contemporary art triumvirate has registered hammer prices amounting to ¤227.9 million over the last twelve months. This means that they 1 sold in the US levels that America’s power depends considerably on this one name. Without him, Chinese. That said, China’s predominance is relative, because New York’s bub- bling artistic scene still attracts artists as strongly as ever, and remains the most artists who live or work in New York2 2009 – June 2010). Between 2009 and June 2012, China remained the most pow- 3- 4 - historic record this year. The Chinese market remains eminently competitive and attractive, notably be- Americans and 29 artists working in the US. 3 Fine Art encompasses paintings, sculptures, volume-installations, drawings, photographs, with ¤353.77 million in the US. page 12 THE LATEST TRENDS cause it is a champion in the high-end market. It is understandable that Chris- in situ in 1986. - porary art results. Hong Kong sights on the island (Gagosian, Perrotin, White Cube, etc.), and Hong Kong’s solid all the major exhibitions1. government is develop- Top 10 Contemporary Artists Sold in China ing large-scale projects Sold ank R Artist Auction sales turnover lots Max. Hammer Price the Kowloon district. The 1 ZENG Fanzhi (1964) ¤21,402,925 42 ¤2,589,600 most ambitious is the M+ 2 ZHOU Chunya (1955) ¤18,901,910 100 ¤3,164,200 contemporary art mu- seum designed by Swiss 3 CHEN Yifei (1946-2005) ¤16,762,725 38 ¤2,849,000 architects Herzog & de 4 YANG Feiyun (1954) ¤11,415,148 41 ¤1,843,500 Meuron, with an open- 5 AI Xuan (1947) ¤9,092,908 45 ¤994,200 6 WANG Yidong (1955) ¤8,033,091 30 ¤1,590,720 as strongly as the MoMA 7 LIU Wei (1965) ¤7,915,686 37 ¤1,484,850 com in New York, will be twice 8 LUO Zhongli (1948) ¤7,878,003 53 ¤902,250 . as big as the Tate Modern - 9 ZHANG Xiaogang (1958) ¤7,654,604 25 ¤1,781,820 10 WANG Mingming (1952) ¤7,505,548 126 ¤598,080 ent over 2,000 works pro- © artprice duced since 1950, with a 2- - rary Art Show. 2 Stone series-yaan
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