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Zao Wou-Ki
Juin-Octobre 1985
1985
$2,345,200
Christie's Hong Kong
May 29, 2005
ART MARKET WATCH ARCHIVES

ART MARKET WATCH
6/3/05
Heat in Hong Kong, New York Latin American sales, more.


ART MARKET WATCH
5/23/05
Results for American painting sales, Versace, contemporary day sales, more.


ART MARKET WATCH
5/14/05
$23.7 million at Phillips contemporary, $133.7 million at Christie's contemporary, and $68 million at Sotheby's.


ART MARKET WATCH
by Stewart Waltzer 5/5/05
Christie’s Impressionist and modern sale, May 4, 2005.


ART MARKET WATCH
by Stewart Waltzer 5/4/05
An art-market slowdown at Sotheby’s Impressionist and modern sale.


ART MARKET WATCH
5/5/05
New York photo sales, spring 2005.


ART MARKET WATCH
4/7/05
Villa Grisebach in New York, Asia Week results at Sotheby's and Christie’s, a rediscovered Brancusi, more.


ART MARKET WATCH
3/21/05
Christie's "First Open," Sotheby's 2004 totals, more.


ART MARKET WATCH
by Lindsay Pollock 1/21/05
Christie's new approach to Old Masters in New York.


ART MARKET WATCH
 11/10/04
$93 million contemporary art at Sotheby’s, photos rule at Phillips.


ART MARKET WATCH
by Deborah Ripley 11/8/04
New York’s fall print auctions went very, very well.


ART MARKET WATCH
by Stewart Waltzer 11/5/04
Sotheby’s sells $194 million worth of Impressionist and modern art.


ART MARKET WATCH
by Stewart Waltzer 11/4/04
Armageddon postponed with Christie’s $128 million Impressionist and modern sale.


ART MARKET WATCH
by Joe La Placa 10/21/04
Hirst's Pharmacy a prescription for success at Sotheby's.


ART MARKET WATCH
by Paul Jeromack 7/9/04
Vermeer and more at Sotheby’s London.


ART MARKET WATCH
7/2/04
Lost Vermeer, London results for June, bargain hunting at Christie’s “house sale,” more.


ART MARKET WATCH
5/14/04
A $17.8 million contemporary sale at Phillips, de Pury & Co.


ART MARKET WATCH
5/13/04
Sotheby’s contemporary sells it all.


ART MARKET WATCH
5/12/04
A record $102 million contemporary sale at Christie’s.


ART MARKET WATCH
by Stewart Waltzer 5/7/04
A second day of Sotheby's Impressionists.


ART MARKET WATCH
by Stewart Waltzer 5/6/04
Sotheby's sells a $104 million Picasso.


ART MARKET WATCH
by Stewart Waltzer 5/5/04
Impressionist and moderns at Christie's New York.


ART MARKET WATCH
5/4/04
Photo sales at Phillips, Christie's and Sotheby's in New York.


ART MARKET WATCH
by Catherine Bindman2/4/04
Old Master drawing auctions in New York.


ART MARKET WATCH
1/30/04
Business of art at the Getty, New York auction results for January, more.


ART MARKET WATCH
11/14/03
Noisy $11 million at Phillips contemporary, new collectors at Sotheby's contemporary, market surge at Christie's contemporary. Plus, day sale highlights.


ART MARKET WATCH
by Stewart Waltzer 11/6/03
Dull Impressionist and modern at Sotheby’s New York.


ART MARKET WATCH
by Stewart Waltzer 11/5/03
Hi-jinx at Christie's Impressionist and modern sale.


ART MARKET WATCH
10/31/03
Hot stuff in the November auctions in New York.


ART MARKET WATCH
10/15/03
Photo sales kick off the fall auction season.


ART MARKET WATCH
5/16/03
Phillips totals $10.3 million in jazzy contemporary sale, Christie's contemporary does $69.8 million, Sotheby's contemporary totals $27.3 million.


ART MARKET WATCH
5/9/03
The International Fine Art Fair opens in New York.


ART MARKET WATCH
5/8/03
Wynn wins Christie's Cézanne, Wynn buys Sotheby's Renoir.


ART MARKET WATCH
by Neil Manson 4/4/03
Wise collectors follow the lead of top museums.


ART MARKET WATCH
4/2/03
A report on the International Asian Art Fair in New York.


ART MARKET WATCH
1/23/03
$28.5 million Mantegna, Phillips scales back, Outsider Art at auction, more.


ART MARKET WATCH
11/22/02
Latin American sales in New York. Plus, radical design sells at Phillips New York.


ART MARKET WATCH
11/14/02
Bidding from all sides at Christie's contemporary, $78 million at Sotheby's, a boisterous sale at Phillips.


ART MARKET WATCH
11/7/02
$67.5 million at Christie's Impressionist and modern, $81 million at Sotheby's, plus Phillips results.


ART MARKET WATCH
by Walter Robinson 10/25/02
Photo week in New York.


ART MARKET WATCH
by Sherry Wong 10/14/02
The Beck Collection of Expressionist art sells in London.


ART MARKET WATCH
by Walter Robinson 9/27/02
The fall auction season for contemporary art begins at Christie's.


ART MARKET REPORT
by Pernilla Holmes 7/2/02
Impressionist, modern and contemporary sales in London.


ART MARKET WATCH
7/10/02
Long-lost Rubens goes for £49.5 million in London.


ART MARKET WATCH
5/30/02
Spotty Latin American sales in New York, plus more.


ART MARKET WATCH
5/23/02
American art at Phillips and Sotheby's, plus cats, the Playboy archives, more.


ART MARKET WATCH
5/16/02
Acceleration in the market at Sotheby's, Metallica Basquiat goes for a record $5 million, $30 million at Phillips.


ART MARKET WATCH
5/9/02
Sotheby's Impressionists and moderns do $126 million. Plus, Art Chicago, the International Fine Art Fair in New York, more.


ART MARKET WATCH
5/3/02
Get ready for the spring Impressionist auctions.


ART MARKET WATCH
4/26/02
Mirrors in the money at Phillips, Apr. 25, 2002.


ART MARKET WATCH
4/19/02
Fabergé Winter Egg for $9.6 million, new photo records, more.


ART MARKET WATCH
3/11/02
TEFAF issues global art market report. Plus, auction & art fair news.


ART MARKET WATCH
by Pernilla Holmes 2/13/02
New records for Doig, Gursky in London.


ART MARKET WATCH
1/25/02
Art fairs for every market, record-setting Americana, Old Masters, more.


MOUNT CUBA AT MARKET
by Lindsay Pollock 1/21/02
A record $12.6 million for the Copeland Americana collection.


ART MARKET WATCH
1/14/02
New York celebrates Americana Week.


ART MARKET WATCH
1/7/02
The lineup of art fairs for the first month of 2002.


ART MARKET WATCH
12/17/01
20th-century design at Phillips in New York, Plein Air at Butterfields, Algus moves.


AR MARKET WATCH
12/6/01
Taubman & Sotheby's stock, American art sales in New York, Swatch benefit auction, new galleries in Chelsea, the Lower East Side, the Upper West Side, more.


ART MARKET WATCH
11/29/01
New antiquarian fair, design at Phillips, Sotheby's and Christie's Latin American, U.S. firms launch auctions in Paris.


ART MARKET WATCH
11/20/01
Sotheby's and Christie's wild and woolly day sales of contemporary art.


ART MARKET WATCH
11/16/01
Cash for the cutting edge at Christie's, souped-up contemporary at Sotheby's, Christie's post-war day results.


ART MARKET WATCH
11/14/01
Christie's post-war, Phillips day sale results, Sotheby's essayists, etc.


ART MARKET WATCH
11/13/01
Supercharged at Phillips, New York Imp & mod totals, Johns figures in Taubman trial, more.


ART MARKET WATCH
by Walter Robinson 11/7/01
Fall auctions off to a star-spangled start.


ART MARKET WATCH
by Brook S. Mason 11/1/01
Scary results at Christie's Orientalist sale on Halloween.


ART MARKET WATCH
by Lindsay Pollock 10/15/01
Sotheby's sells the collection of Warhol sidekick Fred Hughes.


ART MARKET WATCH
by Lindsay Pollock 10/5/01
October photo sales at Sotheby's and Christie's in New York.


ART MARKET WATCH
by Walter Robinson 5/25/01
O'Keeffe rules the American market.


ART MARKET WATCH
by Walter Robinson 5/18/01
The new blue chips at Christie's contemporary sale May 17.


ART MARKET WATCH
by Walter Robinson 5/15/01
New records in Phillips May 14 contemporary sale.


ART MARKET WATCH
by Stewart Waltzer 5/14/01
Impressionists and moderns at Christie's, May 9, and Sotheby's, May 10.


ART MARKET WATCH
by Walter Robinson 4/26/01
MoMA sells photos at Sotheby's.


ART MARKET WATCH
by Caroline Krockow 12/8/00
Rising stars in the hot contemporary art market.


ART MARKET WATCH
by Caroline Krockow 11/29/00
Modest results at Latin American sales in New York.


ART MARKET WATCH
by Stewart Waltzer 11/15/00
The contemporary art market boom continues at Sotheby's New York, Nov. 14, 2000.


ART MARKET WATCH
by Deborah Ripley 11/14/00
The state of the print market, fall 2000.


ART MARKET WATCH
by Stewart Waltzer 11/10/00
Impressionist and modern art at Sotheby's New York, Nov. 9, 2000.


ART MARKET WATCH
by Stewart Waltzer 11/9/00
Impressionist and modern art at Christie's New York, Nov. 8, 2000. Plus a word on Phillips.


ART MARKET WATCH
by Caroline Krockow 11/8/00
Halting sales of 19th-century European paintings at Christie's and Sotheby's.


ART MARKET WATCH
by Caroline Krockow 10/27/00
Big hopes for young art at the contemporary auctions in New York.


ART MARKET WATCH
by Caroline Krockow 10/20/00
Photo sales kick off the fall auction season.


ART MARKET WATCH
by Richard Polsky 8/29/00
Five bargains in the contemporary art market.


ART MARKET WATCH
by Richard Polsky 8/14/00
A "soft landing" for contemporary art?


DRAWINGS IN JULY
by Paul Jeromack 7/31/00
Michelangelo and Leonardo at the London Old Master sales.


CHRISTIE'S OLD MASTERS
by Paul Jeromack 7/21/00
Buoyant prices at Christie's London sale.


OLD MASTER EXTRAVAGANZA
by Paul Jeromack 7/18/00
Fireworks at Phillips and Sotheby's in London.


ARTNET AUCTION REPORT
by Brook S. Mason 6/23/00
Art Deco triumphs over Art Nouveau at the decorative arts sales at Christie's and Sotheby's in New York.


I LOST IT AT THE AUCTION
by Alan Moore 6/19/00
Reporter ditches notebook, grabs paddle at graffiti auction debacle.


LAGERFELD'S NEOCLASSICAL GAS
by Joyce Caruso Corrigan 6/5/00
The designer Karl Lagerfeld sells his things.

OLD MASTERS IN NEW YORK
by Paul Jeromack 6/1/00
The May sales at Christie's and Sotheby's.


THREE'S COMPANY
by Meredith Mendelsohn 5/19/00
Phillips Auctioneers makes headway in the market long monopolized by Christie's and Sotheby's.


MILLIONAIRE'S MARKET
by Meredith Mendelsohn 5/18/00
Skyrocketing prices for modern and contemporary art at Sotheby's.


HOT CONTEMPORARY
by Meredith Mendelsohn 5/17/00
New records at Christie's contemporary sale.


BATTLE OF THE BOUGUEREAUS
by Paul Jeromack 5/16/00
Spring sales of 19th-century paintings in New York.


ARTNET AUCTION REPORT
by Stewart Waltzer 5/11/00
Mr. Reserve and Mr. Telephone battle it out at Sotheby's May 10 Impressionist and Modern sale in New York.


ARTNET AUCTION REPORT
by Stewart Waltzer 5/9/00
Ordinary art at extraordinary prices at Christie's New York on May 9.


MAKING AN OLD MASTERS SALE
by Fred Stern
2/22/00
An interview with Christie's Old Masters specialist, Anthony Crichton-Stuart.

OLD MASTER DRAWINGS
by Paul Jeromack
2/8/00
Standout lots in the New York sales.


OLD MASTER PAINTINGS 2000
by Paul Jeromack
2/2/00
Museums were busy buying at the recent New York sales.


THE ARTNET NUDE 100
by Walter Robinson 11/19/99
The top 100 nudes sold at auction.


AUCTION NOTEBOOK
by Andrew Decker 11/19/99
Odds and ends from the New York salesrooms.


THE $10-MILLION-PLUS CLUB
by Andrew Decker 11/18/99
Sotheby's sells $56.4 million in contemporary art.


CASHING IN ON CONTEMPORARY
by Andrew Decker 11/17/99
18 records at Christie's, Nov. 17.


GOOD IMPRESSIONS
by Andrew Decker 11/12/99
A $144 million Impressionist and modern sale at Sotheby's New York.


THE SAIDENBERG COUP
by Andrew Decker 11/12/99
The story behind the $49.5 million Saidenberg Picasso.


THE BUBBLE-DOWN BOOM
by Andrew Decker 11/11/99
New York auctions of Impressionist and modern art, Nov. 8 and 9.


ARTNET AUCTION REPORT
by Paul Jeromack 11/4/99
19th-century paintings at Christie's and Sotheby's, New York.


OLD MASTER REPORT
by Paul Jeromack 8/5/99
Summer sales in London, plus Feigen finds a Fra Angelico.


OLD MASTER REPORT
by Paul Jeromack 7/30/99
Notes on the Rothschild sale. Plus a scam alert.


THIRST FOR HIRST
by Mary Barone 7/2/99
$5 million at Christie's London contemporary sale.


APHRODITE AT AUCTION
by Paul Jeromack 6/2/99
The 18th century dominates Old Master sales.


AUCTION NOTEBOOK
by Andrew Decker 5/25/99
A $9-million van Gogh and chasing Cézanne. Plus the Auction Contest has a winner!


ART MARKET LIFTOFF
by Andrew Decker 5/20/99
Contemporary auctions at Christie's and Sotheby's in New York.


ARTNET AUCTION REPORT
by Paul Jeromack 5/18/99
Uneven results at New York sales of 19th-century paintings.


ARTNET AUCTION REPORT
by Andrew Decker 5/14/99
Secrets of the spring sales.


ARTNET AUCTION REPORT
5/13/99
Impressionist and 19th-century art at Christie's New York, May 12, 1999.


ARTNET AUCTION REPORT
by Stewart Waltzer 5/12/99
Impressionists and moderns at Sotheby's New York, May 11, 1999.


THE $60-MILLION CÉZANNE
by Andrew Decker 5/11/99
Sotheby's sells the Betsey Cushing Whitney Collection, May 10, 1999.


ARTNET AUCTION REPORT
by Stewart Waltzer 5/11/99
The collection of Mr. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney at Sotheby's New York, May 10, 1999.


JAPANESE PROFIT IN ART SALE
by Kay Itoi 4/23/99
$17-million gain for Fukuoka City Bank in deal with San Francisco Modern.


ARTNET AUCTION REPORT
by Fred Stern 4/12/99
Mixed results in March Asian sales in New York.


LOTS OF MONICA
by Meredith Mendelsohn 3/29/99
Monica memorabilia makes its way to on-line auctions.


THE DELIGHTFUL INVASION
by Fred Stern 3/19/99
Two fairs, a week of auctions and more -- Asia week hits New York City.


OLD MASTER MADNESS
by Paul Jeromack 2/3/99
Absurdly successful Old Master sales at Sotheby's and Christie's in New York.



 
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