Art Market Monitor

Global Coverage ~ Unique Analysis

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

Sotheby’s Auction Volume☟ 24% H1 2016

July 15, 2016 by Marion Maneker

Sotheby's HK 416 image

The Financial Times’s new art market columnist, Melanie Gerlis, has been adding up figures from Sotheby’s website to come up with a snapshot of the house’s auction sales for the first half of 2016:

During this time, the value of sales at auction at Sotheby’s fell 24 per cent to $2.4bn. Volumes were hit particularly hard in North America (down from $1.4bn to $869m) while Asia sales grew, from $382m to $458m.

The full story comes out August 8th when Sotheby’s releases Q2 earnings. In the meantime, the big surprise of these numbers—considering the global macroeconomic changes taking place—is the growth in

The Art Market: Oh you pretty things (Financial Times)

More from Art Market Monitor

  • Christie’s Italian Sale = £43.166mChristie’s Italian Sale = £43.166m
  • Sotheby’s Directors’ ‘Mistake’ May Turn Out to Be Their Best Move in Board FightSotheby’s Directors’ ‘Mistake’ May Turn Out to Be Their Best Move in Board Fight
  • Was Zombie Formalism Meaningful to the Art Market in 2015?Was Zombie Formalism Meaningful to the Art Market in 2015?
  • HappeningsHappenings
  • Saffronart Makes a Top 10 Price for SH Raza in New Delhi Live AuctionSaffronart Makes a Top 10 Price for SH Raza in New Delhi Live Auction
  • A Glimmer of Life: November 2019 NY Impressionist and Modern Sales AnalysisA Glimmer of Life: November 2019 NY Impressionist and Modern Sales Analysis

Filed Under: General

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
  • Tony Podesta's Secret Art Buying
  • Norman Rockwell's Not Gay. But Is He a Great Artist?
  • Four of Picasso's Women Valued at $28m Come to Christie's from Rose-Walters Collection
  • $10 M. Picasso Portrait Unseen for Decades to Sell at Bonhams
  • David Bowie Talks About Art (with Julian Schnabel)
  • Sotheby's Pulls in a $9m David Hockney for November
  • Roy Lichtenstein’s Top Ten Auction Prices
  • Vienna Secession Painting, Long Thought to Be Lost, Sets a Record at Auction
  • Collection of Texas Heiress Anne Marion Expected to Fetch $150 M. at Sotheby’s
  • 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