In recent years, art advisory has assumed a central role in the strategies of financial institutions operating in private banking and wealth management.
The relationship between art and money is as old as art itself. Since its origins, artistic production has been intertwined with the economic, social, and political mechanisms of its time.
Giovanni Boldini (December 31, 1842 – July 11, 1931) Italian painter and portraitist who lived and worked in Paris for much of his career. According to a 1933 article in Time magazine, he was known as the "Master of Swish"…
For the Art & Finance column, a selection of works dedicated to the summer by the Spanish painter Joaquín Sorolla. Estimates and awards and market trend
Vittorio Matteo Corcos, 1859-1933, born to a Jewish family, was an Italian painter, known for his portraits. Many of Corcos' paintings depicted young men but above all attractive and finely dressed women, in moments of rest and leisure.…
Andy Warhol, original name Andrew Warhola, (born August 6, 1928, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA – died February 22, 1987, New York, New York), American artist and director, initiator and leading exponent of the Pop art movement of The…
For about 60 years Joseph Mallord William Turner lived all daylight hours with brush and pencil in hand. He executed 25.000 works, including drawings, engravings, watercolours. When he died in 1851 he left £140 in securities, houses in London…
In addition to painting, Schnabel's broad creative impulse led him to branch out into music, photography and film. Schnabel has received widespread critical acclaim for his work as director of Basquiat, Before Night Falls and The Diving Bell and…
Unlike many of his abstract expressionist colleagues, Rothko never relied on dramatic techniques such as violent brushstrokes or the dripping and splattering of paint. Instead, paintings of him with practically no gestures reached the…
As one of the most influential fashion and portrait photographers of the postwar era, Irving Penn became the epitome of fashion photography of the 50s and 60s. During her first years at Vogue, together with Alexander Liberman, director…
Peter Lindbergh, born Peter Brodbeck, was a German photographer and director, born in 1944 in Leszno, Poland (the city was German between 1939 and 1945 and was called Reichsgau Wartheland) and died in 2019. Peter Lindbergh…
Francesco Lojacono, Palermo 1838 – Palermo 1915. Among the most important painters of the Italian nineteenth century. He was primarily a landscaper. He moved to Naples in 1856 and entered the school of the Palizzi brothers but during some trips to Tuscany he was also influenced by the school…
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (full name Henri-Marie-Raymonde de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa) was born November 24, 1864, Albi, France and died September 9, 1901 in Malromé. French artist who observed and documented with great psychological intuition the personalities and facets of…
Giuseppe de Nittis (1846-1884) Italian artist, although he spent most of his life in France. His paintings are known for merging two art styles: impressionism and salon art. Associated with artists such as Degas and Manet,…
Jack Vettriano (1951) born and raised in Fife, Scotland, became an apprentice to a mining engineer after leaving school at just sixteen. He taught himself to paint in the 70s when his girlfriend bought him…
Deloitte's report analyzes the results of 2019, which confirm art as a heritage management asset, albeit with a drop in overall turnover - This year will be marked by the pandemic but also by Brexit: Paris new capital of…
Born in Mesa, Arizona in 1920, Wayne Thiebaud spent most of his life in Long Beach, California. He started his career in commercial art and planned to pursue advertising. From 1938 to 1949, Thiebaud…
Jeffrey L. Koons (1955) is an American artist recognized for his work in popular culture and his sculptures depicting everyday objects, including balloon animals, stainless steel products with mirrored surfaces. Lives…
William Henry Margetson was a British figurative painter whose subject matter was primarily Victorian-era women. Born in 1861 in London, UK, he was educated at Dulwich College and the Royal Academy of Arts, before becoming a member of…
Antanas Sutkus was born in Kluoniškiai on 27 June 1939. He studied journalism at Vilnius University in the late 50s before becoming disillusioned with the confines of the Soviet-controlled press. Instead, he took up photography and soon…
Wyeth in his poetry and lightness of painting can help us understand the beauty of that naturalness that sooner or later we all should have. Andrew Wyeth, full Andrew Newell Wyeth, (1917- 2009) American watercolorist and tempera worker best known…
The Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti first draftsman then became an important surrealist sculptor. His wispy, sketchy three-dimensional works share a distinctive aesthetic with his drawings and prints. Alberto Giacometti was born on October 10, 1901 in Borgonovo, Switzerland,…
Antonio Ligabue (18 December 1899 – 27 May 1965) original name Antonio Laccabue, son of Elisabetta Costa, originally from Belluno, and presumably by Bonfiglio Laccabue (the father's true identity is still unknown), originally from Reggio Emilia. In 1942 the…
After Bernardo Bellotto today we present Francesco Guardi, another Venetian artist appreciated internationally. Of all Guardi's paintings, the most evocative are his caprices, perhaps less appreciated today than the Venetian views, but those landscapes born from…
Bernardo Bellotto (1720-1780) – nephew of Giovanni Antonio Canal known as Canaletto – was an Italian painter of urban landscapes. Unfortunately, in order to further this family connection, he sometimes signed his works Bellotto de Canaletto, causing much confusion for…
Churchill, the great statesman and politician who blended into one harmonious whole his liberal beliefs in social reform, his deep conservative devotion to the legacy of his nation's history, his unwavering resistance to tyranny from the right or…
Indian artist Anish Kapoor is one of the most acclaimed 20th century sculptors on the contemporary British scene. He moved to England early in his career and worked initially with light materials, such as wood and media…
Giacomo Balla exhibited for the first time with the Futurists in 1913 and his geometric and abstract compositions remain his artistic signature. In his transition from Divisionism to Futurism, Balla claims to have found a new life with art…
More and more the important works of the Italian 900th century prefer a "Private Sale" market both through the Galleries and the Auction Houses. Precisely the latter are increasingly competitive on the market thanks to their international "network".
Brice Marden was born in Bronxville, New York in 1938. Gaining distinction in the late 60s, Marden's work continues to chart a path involving systematic investigations of color, abstract and intuitive gestures, and the studied imprecision of…
Marina Abramovic, icon of performance art. Her career spanned more than four decades and she is considered the first artist of her generation.
Steven Parrino (1958–2005) was one of the most influential artists on the New York art scene from the late 80s. Today on display “Nihilism Is Love” at the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz. From 17 February to 21 May 2020.
In past centuries, women were seldom taken seriously. The only art considered within the reach of their talent was the painting of fans, miniatures and similar objects. But one woman broke this tradition, she was a pretty Frenchwoman…
In 1943 Alberto Burri was a medical officer in Libya, assigned to the X Mussolini Battalion. He was taken prisoner in Tunisia and some 8 months later he set sail from Casablanca for New York with three thousand other Italian fighters. Burri is interned in…
His research was aimed at issues related to visual perception, the integration between real spaces and virtual spaces, especially through the series of overlapping perforated surfaces.
Cai's father, a painter, historian and bookstore owner, was somewhat critical of Mao Zedong and the new Chinese society that was emerging after the successful communist revolution. He encouraged his son to read…
When LaChapelle was 17, he met Andy Warhol, who hired him as a photographer for interviews. Warhol reportedly told LaChapelle "Do whatever you want. Just make sure everyone's okay." LaChapelle's friends during this period…
Influenced by futurists such as Gino Severini, Antonio Corpora, Enrico Prampolini and Giacomo Balla, he gravitated towards painting, but a dislike of their pronounced right-wing views prompted him to align himself with left-wing artists such as Renato Guttuso. Together with Pietro Consagra, Achille…
Yahoo Kusama, the Japanese artist famous for her "Instagrammable" works who with art tried to overcome childhood trauma, prejudices and mental illness to become famous and best-selling in the world.
Although the photography market in Italy has never had great success, with the advent of technology and the possibility of everyone having a "digital" experience, the works of great photographers enter new collections more easily. Palace of…
The artist who produced the "Merda d'artista" box which was put on sale at 700 lire per gram (as gold cost at the time), so the entire box had a value of 21 lire.
Milton Ernest Rauschenberg, known as Robert Rauschenberg (Port Arthur, October 22, 1925 - Captiva Island, May 12, 2008), was an American photographer and painter, who was close to pop art without ever fully adhering to it and instead approaching abstract expressionism.