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WORLD LEADER in ART MARKET INFORMATION Art Market Trends 2008 WORLD LEADER IN ART MARKET INFORMATION Art market trends 2008 Contents 4. From peak to trough 6. Black October and auction failures 6. Volatility of Contemporary art prices 8. The United States in crisis 9. London: new capital of the Fine Art market 10. Christie’s and Sotheby’s 12. The year of the AMCI 14. Artprice’s Top 10 ranking: the art market heavyweights in 2008 14. 1 – Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973) 15. 2 – Francis BACON (1909-1992) 16. 3 – Andy WARHOL (1928-1987) 16. 4 – Damien HIRST (1965) 17. 5 – Claude MONET (1840-1926) 17. 6 – Alberto GIACOMETTI (1901-1966) 18. 7 – Gerhard RICHTER (1932) 19. 8 – Edgar DEGAS (1834-1917) 19. 9 – Lucio FONTANA (1899-1968) 1 20. 10 – Yves KLEIN (1928-1962) 22. Top 100 hammer price 2008 24. Top 500 Artprice 2008 Artists ranked by auction turnover Copyright © 2009 Artprice www.artprice.com Art market trends 2008 Art prices growth 2008 will be remembered in art market Base $100 in July 1990 200 history as a turning point, beginning in a mood of speculative euphoria and ending 180 USA in violent contraction. 160 Between the multi-million dollar sales 140 of the spring and the extreme wariness of 120 buyers in the autumn, the art market fell victim to the economic and fi nancial crisis 100 UK as it spread round the globe. 80 At what moment and why did the trend 60 reversal occur? 40 France 20 0 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 Copyright © 2009 Artprice www.artprice.com Art market trends 2008 2008 will be remembered in art market history as a turning point, beginning in a mood of speculative euphoria and ending in violent contraction. Between the multi-million dollar sales of the spring and the extreme wariness of buyers in the autumn, the art market fell victim to the economic and fi nancial crisis as it spread round the globe. At what moment and why did the trend reversal occur? 3 Copyright © 2009 Artprice www.artprice.com Art market trends 2008 much to choose from, buyers became highly selec- From peak to trough tive, as refl ected in the bought-in rate which has hovered between 31% and 36% since 2000. In After 7 consecutive years of rising prices, the 2008, an enormous number of lots was submitted art market experienced a radical trend change in for auction, up 20% compared with 2007 which 2008 with the spread of the subprime crisis to in- was already a record year! Th e corollary of this ternational fi nancial and economic systems im- supply was a record high bought-in rate: 37.8% of pacting the art market as early as the fi rst quarter lots presented in 2008, reaching a peak of 45% in of 2008. In eff ect, looking at the international fi - the last month of the year when the cold winds of gures, art prices actually contracted 7.5% in Q1 recession were already beginning to blow. 2008 compared with Q4 2007, the sharpest contraction on the market since the 1991-1992 At the end of 2008, the total value of global meltdown. Does this mean we can expect another Fine Art auction sales amounted to $8.3 billion. extended period of art market blues similar to the Th is fi gure was down 1 billion on 2007 with the one that dominated the mid-1990s for fi ve years? bulk of the diff erential being lost on the US mar- Between the speculative peak in 1990 and the ket which had a head-start in the current crisis. more recent one in November 2007 a lot has Nevertheless, this fi gure of $8.3 billion was ex- changed: in the early 90s, the top end of the mar- ceptional compared to the years preceding 2007. ket was mainly driven by banks and Asian collec- For example, between 2000 and 2005, the ave- tors participating in a rapid acceleration of the rage annual revenue total from global Fine Art prices of Impressionist and Modern works. Prices auction sales was somewhere between $2.5m and rocketed, including for works of mediocre quality. $4.2m! Remember too that the speculative bubble However, in 1991 the market suddenly lost its ap- reached it peak in 2007, driven by no less than petite and by the end of the 1990s the bought-in 1,254 adjudications above the $1m line, a num- ber equivalent to the combined total for 2005 4 rate had reached around 25%. In the years since 2000, a more global form of demand has appea- and 2006. In 2008, the hammer fell 1,090 times red with the emergence, notably, of wealthy new above the $1m line: 65 times for Damien Hirst, collectors from Asia, Russia and the Middle East. 45 for Andy Warhol, 22 for Gerhard Richter, 19 To meet this new demand, which became so- for Richard Prince and 18 for Jeff Koons. Th e ac- mewhat frenetic on the «emerging» contemporary celeration of 7 or 8-fi gure sales for art works by art markets, the number of works taken to auc- living artists also refl ects the successful infi ltra- tion has risen by 47% over the decade. With so tion of certain contemporary artists into the «star Copyright © 2009 Artprice www.artprice.com Art market trends 2008 Fine Art auction sales turnover - Worldwide Biannual growth (1998-2008) 10 M$ 2007 9 M$ 2008 8 M$ 7 M$ 2006 6 M$ 5 M$ 2005 2004 4 M$ 1999 2000 1998 2001 2002 2003 3 M$ 2nd half 2 M$ much to choose from, buyers became highly selec- 1st half $35m for Fernand Léger’s Etude pour la 1 M$ tive, as refl ected in the bought-in rate which has femme en bleu at Sotheby’s, the specula- hovered between 31% and 36% since 2000. In tion in the Post-war and Contemporary 2008, an enormous number of lots was submitted Art sale culminated with a massive $77m for auction, up 20% compared with 2007 which for Francis Bacon’s Triptych at Sotheby’s was already a record year! Th e corollary of this system». Damien Hirst is the prime example with on 14 May, acquired by the Russian billionaire supply was a record high bought-in rate: 37.8% of his price index being hugely infl ated by auction Roman Abramovitch who also gave Lucian Freud lots presented in 2008, reaching a peak of 45% in sales that attracted as much media attention as a new record on the previous day at Christie’s the last month of the year when the cold winds of major shows («Red auction» on 14 February and when he paid $30m for his Benefi ts Supervisor recession were already beginning to blow. «Beautiful Inside my head forever» in September Sleeping. Th e price paid for Triptych was the best at Sotheby’s). At the end of 2008, the total value of global auction price recorded since 2006, year in which Fine Art auction sales amounted to $8.3 billion. In May 2008, the deterioration of the global Gustav Klimt’s splendid Portrait of Adele Bloch- Th is fi gure was down 1 billion on 2007 with the economy generated an electric atmosphere at the Bauer II (1912) fetched $78.5m at Christie’s (8 bulk of the diff erential being lost on the US mar- opening of the New York sales of the two mar- November). ket which had a head-start in the current crisis. ket heavyweights, Christie’s and Sotheby’s. Th eir Between January and June 2008, Fine Art Nevertheless, this fi gure of $8.3 billion was ex- «Impressionist & Modern Art» and «Post-war and auction revenue reached $5.5 bn – a record for ceptional compared to the years preceding 2007. Contemporary Art» catalogues contained very any half-year period – but then fell back to half For example, between 2000 and 2005, the ave- high estimates in line with the exceptional pri- that fi gure in the second half of the year as all rage annual revenue total from global Fine Art ces obtained in November 2007. After a week of the market indicators turned red after September: auction sales was somewhere between $2.5m and high tension sales, the top-end of the art market auctions started to fail, art market confi dence (as $4.2m! Remember too that the speculative bubble seemed miraculously immune to the defl ationary refl ected by our AMCI) vanished, and then prices reached it peak in 2007, driven by no less than spiral already aff ecting stock markets, with a re- plummeted. By the end of 2008, Artprice’s dollar- 1,254 adjudications above the $1m line, a num- cord revenue fi gure of $1.2bn and a total of 31 converted global price index showed a severe price ber equivalent to the combined total for 2005 new artists’ records. Th e dollar’s weakness against correction of -30%. Remember that the price cor- and 2006. In 2008, the hammer fell 1,090 times the euro gave European buyers an added incentive rection that occurred between January 1990 and 5 above the $1m line: 65 times for Damien Hirst, to participate in the sales, and they generated 41% January 1991 was less sharp, around –21%, but 45 for Andy Warhol, 22 for Gerhard Richter, 19 of the revenue fetched from Impressionist and that it was followed by another contraction of –27 for Richard Prince and 18 for Jeff Koons.
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