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Skate's Art Investment Review
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Skate’s Suspends Analysis of artnet AG

Skate’s Art Market Research has been covering artnet AG for over six years now. We have been very enthusiastic about the firm’s database and its decision to launch online auctions and have followed c...

6 days ago

Art Stocks Review – May 2012 – artnet, Collectors Universe, Skate’s Art Stocks Index

In this Issue: artnet’s Q1 Results: When will artnet correct its downturn? Collectors Universe Q3 Results: Perfect Timing for Expansion Skate’s Art Stocks Index To read the full report, p...

22 may 12

Poly: In Start of Global Expansion, a Quiet Power Establishes Permanent New York Presence

Beijing Poly International Auction Co. Ltd is not even seven years old, but it is the world’s third largest auction house, selling RMB 12.2 billion worth of art (USD 1.9 billion) in 2011. It remains ...

15 may 12

Last Night’s All-Time Record: Edvard Munch’s The Scream Sells for $119.9 Million, Six Other Works F...

Since the official announcement that Edvard Munch’s pastel painting The Scream would be presented for auction at Sotheby’s, it is difficult to imagine a time when there have been more expert predicti...

04 may 12

Monthly Art Investment Ideas – May 2012

This issue of Skate’s Art Investment Review is dedicated to the market for sculpture and focuses on the major upcoming May auctions at Christie’s and Sotheby’s. In this Issue: April...

01 may 12

Monthly Art Investment Ideas – March 2012

In this Issue: February Art Market Results The Rise of the British and German Art Markets Top 20 Entries to Skate’s Top 5000 Top 20 Repeat Sales in February Latest Insights into Skate’s A...

07 mar 12

Richter 80: The Art Impact Scale

Gerhard Richter turns 80 today. The world’s 12th most valuable artist of all time and by far the most valuable living artist today, Gerhard Richter has 90 artworks included in Skate’s ranking of the ...

09 feb 12

Publicly Traded Art Dealer: Let’s Try Once More… Weng Fine Art AG Listed on Frankfurt Stock Exchang...

The proud city of Krefeld, located in the heartland of German manufacturing, lost its last publicly traded company on March 16, 2009 when the locally headquartered industrial conglomerate Jagenberg A...

03 jan 12

Global Art Industry: Annual Report for 2011 and Outlook for 2012

Welcome to Skate’s Annual Art Investment Report — published by Skate’s Art Market Research since 2006, this report covers global art market trends and provides forecasts for the com...

30 dec 11

New Art Industry Stock to be Listed in Germany; Mallett Continues to Bleed; Abbey Gets 38 New Inves...

New Art Industry Stock to be Listed in Germany Polish Abbey House’s very successful IPO earlier this year (the firm’s share price is up 270% in PLN terms since May) was clearly an inspiration for man...

13 dec 11

For Return-­Focused Collectors, November Auctions Make a Strong Case for Blue Chip Living Artists

Following October’s strong auction results, sales in November brought still more record prices, reflecting the robust conditions on the global art market. Successful sales of Impressionist and ...

14 nov 11 1 person likes this

Is There a Better Business Model for the Art Trade than the Auction House? Yes, There Is!

The traditional mismatch between Sotheby’s robust auction volumes and the firm’s third-quarter loss-making financials, which were released at the same time (this week, actually), causes us to pose a ...

11 nov 11

artnet Results Disappoint, Minority Shareholder Increases Ownership Interest

artnet has released its financial results for nine months ending September 30, 2011. They are disappointing. The firm continues to be loss making, revenues remain flat and artnet’s major hope, online...

03 nov 11

Auction Houses Aim to Sell Art at Significantly Higher Prices, Supporting Auction Activity with a H...

Skate’s Market Notes On November 1, 2011 Skate’s will release its monthly report for November, which will focus on the major auctions scheduled for this week. Below is a short preview of our ke...

01 nov 11

Citibank Initiates Coverage of Sotheby’s, Names Skate’s Among Research Partners

Skate’s is pleased to announce that Citibank, specifically the Citigroup Investment Research division, has recently launched investment coverage of Sotheby’s (NYSE:BID). This marks the first time tha...

19 oct 11

First October sales results: Christie’s triumphs in contemporary art; Sotheby’s dominates Italian s...

Of all the contemporary sales that took place in London during the week of the Frieze Art Fair, Christie’s results most certainly place the auction house in the leading position. The results of Chris...

18 oct 11

Collectibles: Even Better Than Art Following Noble Investments’ Inclusion into Skate’s Art Stock In...

Following the overhaul of Skate’s Art Stock Index (SASI) conducted on September 1, 2011 and announced the day before (click here for story) the index now has three companies representing the collecti...

20 sep 11 1 person likes this

Understanding Abbey House: Specialty Retail Play Focused on Rapidly Growing Class of Eastern Europe...

On May 5, 2011, Skate’s added a relatively new firm–Poland’s Abbey House (established in 2010)–to Skate’s Art Stock Index. On August 16, 2011, Abbey published its six mo...

31 aug 11

Artprice’s Share Re-pricing: Bubble or a Strong Investment Case in the Making?

For years at Skate’s we have been consistently suspicious of Artprice, the French art market data provider and classified listing service for galleries (click here for Skate’s coverage of Artprice). ...

24 aug 11

artnet: Back to Red, Auction Volume Flat against Sotheby’s 27% Same Period Growth, Price Database P...

artnet has reported its six months’ financial results, and, unlike the Sotheby’s numbers that we commented on last week (see Sotheby’s report), its performance is disappointing. Revenue fell to the s...

16 aug 11 1 person likes this

Sotheby’s Six Month Report: Strong Results Lead to Astonishing Cash Numbers with Private Sales Beco...

Since last year, Skate’s has argued that it would make considerable sense for Christie’s to go public in 2011 given the generous valuation multiples in the art industry. The momentum, at least for th...

10 aug 11

New Star in the Global Art Industry Rises from the East (Expect IPO in 2012) or How the Chinese Peo...

Since last year, Skate’s has argued that it would make considerable sense for Christie’s to go public in 2011 given the generous valuation multiples in the art industry. The momentum, at least for th...

26 jul 11

Lucian Freud—Previously the World’s Third Most Valuable Living Artist—Passed Away on July 20. Freud...

Three of the World’s Ten Most Valuable Living Artists are Now Chinese Scarcely two weeks after the death of Cy Twombly, another living artist—Lucian Freud—has passed away. Both artists saw an extraor...

25 jul 11

Cy Twombly, the World’s 6th Most Valuable Living Artist, Passed Away Yesterday, July 5, 2011 in Rom...

Cy Twombly, the world’s 6th most valuable living artist and 49th most valuable artist overall, has passed away yesterday at the age of 83, some 56 days after seeing an all-time record for his art set...

07 jul 11

Monthly Art Investment Ideas from Skate’s Art Market Research: July 2011

Welcome to the July issue of Skate’s Art Investment Review. As always, our coverage is focused on the universe of 665 global artists whose artworks are represented in Skate’s Top 5000 dat...

03 jul 11

Mallett Finally Falls Prey as Swedish Activist Investor Buys Up 23%, Stock Remains in Play

Skate’s has long expected that Mallett, a London-based antiques dealer and a constituent of Skate’s Art Stock Index, would either go private or be purchased by a third party. 2010 marked the third co...

22 jun 11

Skate’s Semiannual Art Industry Forecast

Parallel Reality for Global Art Market Emerges in China, Art Dealing Starts to Migrate Online Artnet Downgraded, MCH Group (Art Basel Operator) Upgraded In January, we published our customary outlook...

08 jun 11

Monthly Art Investment Ideas from Skate’s Art Market Research: June 2011

Welcome to the June issue of Skate’s Art Investment Review. As always, our coverage is focused on the universe of 664 global artists whose artworks are represented in Skate’s Top 5000 dat...

04 jun 11

Dear Friends, Skate’s would like to share with you Latin American Art Investment Report for 2011 prepared by Alternative Latin Investor©. To view the sample report, please click on the image be...

18 may 11

A Busy Month for Skate’s Art Stocks: Art Basel Operator Acquires Majority Stake in Hong Kong’s Asia...

On May 6, MCH Group, operator of the Art Basel art fairs, announced that it was taking a majority 60% stake in Asian Art Fairs Limited, which operates the fast-growing Hong Kong International Art Fai...

17 may 11

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