Art Market Monitor

Global Coverage ~ Unique Analysis

  • AMMpro
  • AMM Fantasy Collecting Game
  • Podcast
  • Contact Us

Art Market, Good or Evil? Ropac Shrugs

December 13, 2012 by Marion Maneker

Credit: Linda Yablonsky

Perhaps the last word on the art market—is it good or evil?—should come from a major art dealer. Speaking to Spiegel Online, Thaddeus Ropac explains his own skepticism toward the market’s enthusiasm and the ways in which a good art dealer is a bulwark against the market’s volatile personality:

When it comes to enthusiasm for art, Paris is at the front of the line. The French are an appreciative audience. When it comes to pure business, and to making money with art, America remains on top. But whether an artist is valued highly on the market still says little about his importance. You can’t take the market too seriously. […] There are these rankings of the supposedly most important artists, and they too say nothing. One can only treat them with amusement. The market is the more extreme form of a ranking. But the records are deceptive, because they only reveal something about fashions and trends. Many outcomes are hard to comprehend.

Top Gallerist Explains Art Market Euphoria (Spiegel Online)

More from Art Market Monitor

  • Sales, Sales, SalesSales, Sales, Sales
  • Martin Margulies, The Anti-Market Art Collector Who Plans to Sell All His Art … EventuallyMartin Margulies, The Anti-Market Art Collector Who Plans to Sell All His Art … Eventually
  • The Artist Who Ran Afoul of the FedsThe Artist Who Ran Afoul of the Feds
  • Sotheby’s London Cont Feb ’12 (Highlights)Sotheby’s London Cont Feb ’12 (Highlights)
  • Monet Fails; Picasso & Klimt Sell at Christie'sMonet Fails; Picasso & Klimt Sell at Christie's
  • Jeff Koons Launches Fourth Balloon Dog PlateJeff Koons Launches Fourth Balloon Dog Plate

Filed Under: Dealers

About Marion Maneker

Want to get Art Market Monitor‘s posts sent to you in our email? Sign up below by clicking on the Subscribe button.

Top Posts

  • Keith Haring’s 1989 Retrospect Comes to Sotheby’s London Prints Sale
  • British Modernists Draw Deep Bidding in Christie's $42 M. London Sales
  • Tony Podesta's Secret Art Buying
  • Four of Picasso's Women Valued at $28m Come to Christie's from Rose-Walters Collection
  • Norman Rockwell's Not Gay. But Is He a Great Artist?
  • $10 M. Picasso Portrait Unseen for Decades to Sell at Bonhams
  • How to Chant Like an Auctioneer
  • Roy Lichtenstein’s Top Ten Auction Prices
  • Christie’s to Sell Its First Fully Digital Work of Art in Test of Emerging Market
  • Phillips to Showcase Helen Frankenthaler at Southampton Outpost
  • About Us/ Contact
  • Podcast
  • AMMpro
  • Newsletter
  • FAQ

twitterfacebooksoundcloud
Privacy Policy
Terms & Conditions
California Privacy Rights
Do Not Sell My Personal Information
Advertise on Art Market Monitor