giovedì 19 dicembre 2013

La bolla nel mercato dell'arte

I prezzi dell'arte moderna/contemporanea sono stati inflazionati dall'incredibile massa di liquidità immessa nelle mani dei banchieri &co (non specifico del sistema perchè alla strada quei soldi non sono ancora arrivati).

Questo ha portato ad un lievetare di quotazioni continuo, arrivate oggi ad un livello quantomeno discutibile.

Vediamo di seguito una raccolta delle opere dai prezzi più "esorbitanti" .

'Grande femme debout II', by A
lberto Giacometti – sold for $27.4 million in 2008
'Tête de femme (Dora Maar)' by Pablo Picasso, sold for $29.1 million in 2007

Jackson Pollock's 'Nr. 5, 1948' – sold for $140 million in 2006

Willem de Kooning's 'Woman 3' – sold for $137 million in 2006

Pablo Picasso's 'Dora Maar au chat', sold for $95 million in 2006. Several other works by Picasso also sold at very high prices in this stage of the bubble, the first one was 'Garçon à la pipe', which sold for $104 million in 2004.


Kazimir Malevich's 'Suprematist Composition',  sold for $60 million in 2008

Gustav Klimt's 'Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I' sold for $135 million in 2006, making it the highest priced modern painting sold in this phase of the bubble ('Adele Bloch-Bauer II' incidentally sold for roughly $88 million the same year).

Alberto Giacometti's 'L'homme qui marche I', sold for $104 million in 2010

Giacometti's 'Grande Tête Mince' – sold in 2010 for $53 million, while  another version of the same work sold in 2013 for $50 million (it actually looks exactly the same, so there is no point in depicting both)

Amedeo Modigliani's  'Tête'  sold in 2010 for $52.6 million

'Balloon Dog (Orange)' by Jeff Koons, sold for $58.4 million in November 2013

Francis Bacon's 'Three Studies of Lucian Freud' – sold for $142 million in 2013

The version of Edvard Munch's 'The Scream' that was sold for $119.9 million in 2012
Pablo Picasso's 'Le Rêve', which sold for the princely sum of $155 million in March of 2013.

Andy Warhol's 'Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster)' sold for $105 million in 2013.

Cezanne's 'Card Players' – sold for $259 million in 2011. Sure, it looks nice, but $259 million?

Link: The bubble in moderna art