PARIS, Oct. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — The international Art Basel organization (owned by MCH Group) is about to open its first Paris+ art fair (20-23 October), which replaces the FIAC. This change follows a wave of new gallery openings in the French capital, including Skarstedt, David Zwirner, and Peter Kilchmann, as well as the addition of new branches for Gagosian and Continua, and the inauguration of the Pinault Collection at the former Bourse de Commerce (Trade Exchange). Taken together, these developments clearly illustrate Paris’s ambitions to recover a dominant position in the global art market in the post-Covid and post-Brexit eras.
“Because of its history, Paris will always remain a center for Modern and Impressionist art; but the French capital must today forge a place for itself in Contemporary art and, indeed, in Ultra-Contemporary art, or risk missing the digital train altogether“, says thierry Ehrmann, CEO of Artmarket.com and founder of Artprice.
“The efforts deployed by the United States after WWII demonstrated the influence a strong market can have in stimulating artistic creativity and giving it international visibility. This is why we are very proud with Artmarket.com to support the ADIAF ((Association for the International Dissemination of French Art) and the Marcel Duchamp prize“.
A complacent Parisian market
Over the past twenty years, fine art auction turnover has progressed at the same rate in France as in the rest of the world, both in terms of the volume of transactions and auction turnover. But if we focus solely on the Contemporary Art segment (artists born after 1945), we see that Paris generated 3.2% of global auction turnover in 2000, but only 2.6% in 2021 and only 1.8% in H1 2022.
Contemporary Art auction turnover per city: 2000 vs. 2021
New York: $59 million in 2000 – $955 million in 2021
Hong Kong: $558,000 – $700 million in 2021
London: $13 million in 2000 – $432 million in 2021
Paris: $3 million in 2000 – $73 million in 2021
It is this context that prompted the RMN (Réunion des Musées Nationaux) to launch a call-for-tender to rent its Grand-Palais for a new Contemporary Art Fair in Paris. Previously granted to the FIAC for almost half a century, it has now been granted to the MCH group for the next seven years. The innovative proposals of the “Art Basel” fairs, organized by the MCH Group in Basel, Miami and Hong Kong, should revitalize a Parisian marketplace that has become a little too complacent. So instead of the 48th edition of the FIAC, the City of Light is about to discover the “grand premiere” of Paris+.
The Marcel Duchamp Prize awarded to…
The month of October is of considerable importance for the Parisian art market with numerous events profiting from the magnetic pull of its major Contemporary art fair. It also provides an excellent opportunity for the ADIAF to award the Marcel Duchamp prize to one of the four artists shortlisted this year: Giulia Andreani, Iván Argote, Philippe Decrauzat, and Mimosa Echard. Artprice is proud to support this initiative and congratulates the 2022 winner, Mimosa Echard.
www.adiaf.com/le-prix-marcel-duchamp-2022/
www.artprice.com/artist/544338/mimosas-echard/lots/pasts
During the week of 17-23 October, Artprice has identified no less than twenty Fine Art auction sales in the French capital. Christie’s will be hosting two major sessions there (“Modern Art” and “Avant-Garde(s)”), and will also be dispersing the magnificent African collection of Béatrice and Patrick Caput.
Sotheby’s, for its part, has chosen to host its major Fine Art sales the following week (24-26 October), considering Paris+ and the tumult that will accompany it as a perfect springboard.
“Phillips will not be opening an auction room soon in France“
The world’s third-largest auction house, by Fine Art turnover, has confirmed it does not intend to host sales in the French capital. For the time being, Phillips is concentrating on the New York – London – Hong Kong dynamic for its high-end sales in its specialty fields: Contemporary and Post-War art (along with watches, jewelry, and design).
Bonhams, on the other hand, is following a completely different expansion strategy with the acquisition of Cornette de Saint-Cyr, active in both France and Belgium. Without overshadowing the French capital, Brussels offers a fairly natural development opportunity for many players in the Parisian art market. The Templon, Obadia, and Almine Rech galleries have gradually set up there, while others prefer Geneva or Luxembourg: two cities with free ports.
Operation “Contemporary Art and NFTs”
The MCH Group has made Contemporary art the principal locomotive of its Art Basel editions by selecting only the most prestigious local and international galleries and creating synergies with the world of fashion and technology (hence the “+” sign in the name of the fair). The Tezos Blockchain – of French origin – has also become one of Art Basel’s main partners.
As we mentioned, Paris is indeed struggling to assert itself on the Contemporary and Ultra-Contemporary art market. Its best three auction results above $20 million in the first half of 2022 were for Old and Modern works:
- Woman Walking [I] by Alberto Giacometti, from the Givenchy Collection
- Basket of Wild Strawberries attributed to Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin by the Cabinet Turquin
- A Nude Man with two Figures reattributed by Christie’s to Michelangelo
In H1 2022, the best French result for a Contemporary work (i.e. one created by an artist born after 1945) capped at $1 million, a threshold that, this year, has already been crossed 47 times in Hong Kong, 51 times in London and 71 times in New York.
Artprice by Artmarket’s latest Ultra-Contemporary Art Market Report highlights the difficulties France faces when it comes to nurturing its own Contemporary art scene. For example, in 2021, paintings by Claire Tabouret – the most successful French artist under 40 at auction – were sold in London (49% of her auction turnover), New York (30%), and Hong Kong (20%).
Paris+ by Art Basel, therefore, has a mission to put the French capital back at the heart of the international Contemporary art market, while embracing its history and its specificity.
Images: [https://imgpublic.artprice.com/img/wp/sites/11/2022/10/image1-ArtMarket-Turnover-CA-Paris.png][https://imgpublic.artprice.com/img/wp/sites/11/2022/10/image2-Paris-vs-London-vs-HongKong.png]
Copyright 1987-2022 thierry Ehrmann www.artprice.com – www.artmarket.com
- Don’t hesitate to contact our Econometrics Department for your requirements regarding statistics and personalized studies: econometrics@artprice.com
- Try our services (free demo): https://www.artprice.com/demo
- Subscribe to our services: https://www.artprice.com/subscription
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: www.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 ©:
Biographie_thierry_Ehrmann_2022_WhosWhoInFrance.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 793,000 artists.
Artprice by Artmarket, the world leader in information on the art market, has set itself the ambition through its Global Standardized Marketplace to be the world’s leading Fine Art NFT platform.
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 5.4 million (‘members log in’+social media) 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 releases its 2022 Ultra-Contemporary Art Market Report:
https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-contemporary-art-market-report-2022
The Artprice 2022 half-year report: the art market returns to strong growth in the West:
https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/global-art-market-in-h1-2022-by-artprice-com
Artprice by Artmarket’s 2020 Global Art Market Report published in March 2022:
https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-art-market-in-2021
Artprice’s 2020/21 Contemporary Art Market Report by Artmarket.com:
https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-contemporary-art-market-report-2021
Index of press releases posted by Artmarket with its Artprice department:
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:
www.facebook.com/artpricedotcom/ (over 5.9 million followers)
Discover the alchemy and universe of Artmarket and its artprice department https://www.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
- www.facebook.com/la.demeure.du.chaos.theabodeofchaos999 (over 4 million followers)
- https://vimeo.com/124643720
Contact:Thierry Ehrmann
ir@artmarket.com
SOURCE Artprice.com
