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I referred to the Antiques Gazette earlier. I mentioned how invaluable a tool it was in the 1980s and 1990s and until the internet put a spanner in the works of a lot of businesses, including buying and selling art quickly. I was always anxious for the gazettee to come in order to read the new sales reports and see the new ads for auctions and sales. Read more on You Wish You Knew What You Sold Me – July 1986… The Greek Government Is Struggling But…
Vergos auction started the spring series of Greek Art sales and the result was fine.
It was only 60% sold, which is low for any Greek sale, but under the circumstances it was good and in some cases very good. Once again the Greek art lovers and money holders, I hasten to add, spent money to buy good art of the past and promising art of the future. Plans Go To The Wind and I Chickened Out! Why? What Got Me?
Never regret about what you did, regret about what you did not do! The following day after the Hoffman sale I booked a ticket to San Francisco with one of the cheapest airlines around. It cost about 500.00 dollars to fly west but then again, I did not want comforts, I wanted safety and quick flights. They were the only ones to offer what I needed from Newark. The major airlines did not offer what I needed on the day in question. Read more on Superstition! Superstition!No Trip To San Francisco… Istanbul, Noor Osmanie and The Slave Market Istanbul, 1838/1870 oil on canvas, signed E. Ionides 60 x 80 cm in a period French Empire Frame of 1820 Original Condition, no restorations Read more on Istanbul 1880- The Noor Osmanie and The Slave Market, Constantinople… In our exhibition of March and April 2011 we are including the magnificent Coulentianos work you could see and read about under exhibitions in greeksinart.com
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Peter Constant Read more on Costas Coulentianos- The Spirit Of Freedom Of The artist… It’s Never Late To Enter A Market
The South East Asian Market has been rising steadily for years now. There was a boom in prices of Chinese art but that is an entity on its own as we are talking about art from other countries of the region such as India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Korea, Vietnam and Japan. A Market Is Born
The Turkish market is being formed as we speak. Modern and contemporary art is emerging like the economy of Turkey. Artists unknown to the west are selling well and the prospects look promising, very promising indeed. By October 1986 I had made several plans related to paintings and trips. The Montezin painting remained unsold in early October in New York. I made a couple of sales and collected enough money for another couple of purchases and so I decided to attend the auction in New York first. Then if everything went according to plan, I wanted to carry on to San Francisco in order to attend the auction at Butterfields. Read more on Contemporary Art Sale of Millions, November 1986…
The scene for the Turkish Auctions has been set already. A few years back it was mainly the works of Hamdi Bey that made the headlines. It was 19th century European content paintings that achieved prices in the hundreds of thousands of pounds. Every now and then we notice New trends and new investment opportunities for which we feel, we must inform our thousands of readers. The small ripples of the past few years about the Turkish Art Market are being replaced with major sales in Istanbul and in London as we speak and write this article. |
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