Sotheby’s released some figures this morning:
Auction sales up by 19% to $5.2bn
Asian Art sales up by 50%
Impressionist and Modern Art sales up by 21%
Jewelry sales up by 32%
Contemporary art sales up by 6%
To put these numbers in context, Forbes’s Kathryn Tully report that the overall auction market rose 14% in 2013 and fell in China (10%) and the UK (5%)
