The high price of individual prints compared to the full book is driven by a market phenomenon called “break-up value.” In the art world, the sum of a book’s parts is often worth significantly more than the whole volume. By knowing this it help you when you hunt for values in Auctions and Galleries. Here […]
Henri Matisse was born in 1869 in the tiny town of Bohain-en-Vermandois, in the flatlands of northeastern France. Matisse’s earliest works, from the 1890s, were mostly naturalistic and inspired by Impressionism. His first major creative breakthrough came in the middle of the following decade, when he became a pioneer of Fauvism. The first major avant-garde
Alexander Calder’s overall impact on the art world is now obvious. He turned movement, color, and the lightness of materials (metal, wire, painted sheet metal) into the key elements of a sculptural vocabulary which is fundamental to modern art. This also translated exceptionally to drawings, watercolors and print-multiples. He was the inventor of the mobile
These are several ways to collect Keith Haring today and one of them is to focus on Pop Shop “Afters”. Pop Shop “Afters” are an attractive but complex entry point into collecting Keith Haring. The term refers to prints or posters that are reproductions, or an homage based on an original piece.The other main Pop