Art Market revelations : Artprice calculates the exact return on investment for major artists!

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Art Market revelations : Artprice calculates the exact return on investment for major artists!

Artprice is the world’s primary specialist for art market prices and indices with more than 30 million indices and auction results covering over 586,000 artists. Artprice Images (R) offers unlimited access to the world’s largest art market database, a library of 108 million photos or representations of artworks from the year 1700 to the present day, each accompanied by pertinent commentary by our art historians.

Thanks to its unrivaled data collection of public auction results, stored in its privately owned intranet linked to more than 4,500 auctioneers, and its exclusive econometric know-how, Artprice is able to calculate the return on investment for artworks bought over two decades.

Here bellow : 25 examples of return on investments made in 2000 for artworks by Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, Francis Bacon, Gerhard Richter, Mark Rothko, Claude Monet, QI Baishi, Alberto Giacometti, ZHANG Daqian, Jeff Koons, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Cy Twombly, ZAO Wou-ki, Roy Lichtenstein, Willem De Kooning, FU Baoshi, XU Beihong, Amadeo Modigliani, HUANG Zhou, HUANG Binhong, Christopher Wool, Marc Chagall, Joan Miro, Lucio Fontana and WU Changshuo.
These are the 25 best performing artists at public auction in 2014, as calculated by Artprice and Artron.

Andy Warhol +282% ($)

Evolution of Andy WARHOL’s market by Artprice

 

Pablo Picasso +130% ($)

Evolution of Pablo PICASSO’s market by Artprice

Francis Bacon +910% ($)

Evolution of Francis BACON’s market by Artprice

Gerhard Richter +554% ($)

Evolution of Gerhard RICHTER’s market by Artprice

Mark Rothko +501% ($)

Evolution of Mark ROTHKO’s market by Artprice

 

Claude Monet +212% ($)

Evolution of Claude MONET’s market by Artprice

 

QI Baishi +932% ($)

Evolution of QI Baishi’s market by Artprice

 

Alberto Giacometti +386% ($)

Evolution of Alberto GIACOMETTI’s market by Artprice

 

ZHANG Daqian +254% ($)

Evolution of ZHANG Daqian’s market by Artprice

 

Jeff Koons -7% ($)

Evolution of Jeff KOONS’s market by Artprice

 

Jean-Michel Basquiat +840% ($)

Evolution of Jean-Michel BASQUIAT’s market by Artprice

 

Cy Twombly +384% ($)

Evolution of Cy TWOMBLY’s market by Artprice

ZAO Wou-ki +1007% ($)

Evolution of ZAO Wou-ki’s market by Artprice

Roy Lichtenstein +211 % ($)

Evolution of Roy LICHTENSTEIN’s market by Artprice

Willem De Kooning +89% ($)

Evolution of Willem DE KOONING’s market by Artprice

FU Baoshi +370% ($)

Evolution of FU Baoshi’s market by Artprice

XU Beihong +535% ($)

Evolution of XU Beihong’s market by Artprice

 

Amedeo Modigliani +204% ($)

Evolution of Amedeo MODIGLIANI’s market by Artprice

HUANG Zhou +2777% ($)

Evolution of HUANG Zhou’s market by Artprice

HUANG Binhong +873% ($)

Evolution of HUANG Binhong’s market by Artprice

Christopher Wool +1970% ($)

Evolution of Christopher WOOL’s market by Artprice

Marc Chagall +158% ($)

Evolution of Marc CHAGALL’s market by Artprice

Joan Miro +106%($)

Evolution of Joan MIRO’s market by Artprice

Lucio Fontana +365% ($)

Evolution of Lucio FONTANA’s market by Artprice

WU Changshuo +537% ($)

Evolution of WU Changshuo’s market by Artprice

Coming soon : more articles disclosing the exact return on investment for artworks by the major artists of each segment. This operation has been the subject of new debates, which have clearly underlined the truth : detractors cannot handle the fact thatanyone has now access to such a precious information, which was historically strictly reserved to the market makers.

Its impact – which has been far greater than that of any other Artprice initiative in terms of data volumes – confirms that the disruptive economy can very quickly shatter old circuits. By their asymmetrical information these old circuits have allowed a well-organized market structure to develop around the purchase and sale of art with enormous margins that have no economic justification in the 21st century.

A few years ago, Artprice had purchased Xylogic (a Swiss company founded in 1987 by prominent scientists). It was at that time, the only company in the world to provide indices and extremely efficient econometric tools, made exclusively available to an elite of the Art Market, such as experts, international auction houses and major collector (see Artprice’s 2013 reference document submitted to the A.M.F on 17 July 2014).

Now, within seconds, a buyer or seller using a smartphone, phablet, tablet or pc can access graphic displays of an artist’s price index, the number of works sold per year, his/her annual auction turnover, his unsold rate, the geographic distribution of his sales per country, per price segment or per artistic medium, not to mention an array of more advanced options.

So, in just three mouse-clicks, the non-initiate can compare the price curves of two artists and check the performance of an artist versus the Artprice Global Index (Artprice’s general Art Market Index that become an authoritative reference in the business over the last 18 years).

At the same time, he can also compare the artist’s valuation to the major stock market indexes like the S&P 500, the DAX, the CAC40, the FTSE, the NIKKEI and the S&P Asia 50. For example http://www.artprice.com/artist/3416/francois-boucher/index

Indeed over the past 18 years the art market has seen exponential financialization. Most of the world’s major private banks and wealth management institutions are clients of Artprice.

So, in just three mouse-clicks, the non-initiate can compare the price curves of two artists and check the performance of an artist versus the Artprice Global Index (Artprice’s general Art Market Index that become an authoritative reference in the business over the last 18 years.

To create a shock wave and literally reshape the Art Market (in the sense of the “disruptive economy” described by Clayton Christensen) we needed to condense the market’s macro- and micro-economic data so that non-initiates could get access to easily understandable and pertinent information about artists and thus be in a position to negotiate on equal terms with seasoned professionals.

In addition, to generate a truly disruptive and viral economy, a major proportion of these indices are free online, and these indices are today essential features of an artist’s online profile in freemium mode (the freemium model provides the basic data in free mode and the value-added data in pay mode) generating an irreversible shockwave to the traditional relationship between art buyers and art sellers. This principle will generate an impressive number of new Artprice members because to get access to this freemium mode information they will need to register with Artprice.

Since January 2015, Artprice has accelerated the injection of 85% of its data in online free mode and now provides freeware access to 900 million data covering the period 1700 to the present day (in the form of owner application licenses distributed free of charge but with certain user restrictions) via its agreements with Google (since 2003) and Baidu (China). The same approach has been activated in 2015 with Bing (Microsoft) which has a market share of 18.4% in the USA..

The 50 best performing artists at public auctions in 2014 ranked by Artprice & Artron.

TOP 500 Artists in 2014 by Artprice and AMMA

 

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Atprice is the global leader in art price and art index databanks. It has over 30 million indices and auction results covering more than 570,000 artists. Artprice Images(R) gives unlimited access to the largest Art Market resource in the world: a library of 108 million images or prints of artworks from the year 1700 to the present day, along with comments by Artprice’s art historians.

Artprice permanently enriches its databanks with information from 4,500 auctioneers and it publishes a constant flow of art market trends for the world’s principal news agencies and approximately 7,200 international press publications. For its 3,600,000 members, Artprice gives access to the world’s leading Standardised Marketplace for buying and selling art.

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The 2014 Art Market Report contains the famous Artprice ranking of the world’s 500 most sought-after artists, the top 100 auction results, market breakdowns by country and by city, by period and by medium, Artprice indices and 21 chapters that provide an uncompromising analysis of the Art Market. It is available free of charge in PDF format at http://imgpublic.artprice.com/pdf/rama2014_en.pdf

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