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Welcome to Artelligence
If you have comments, complaints, tips or just want to vent, feel free to c=
ontact us directly:
In This Issue
But first: Marlborough=E2=80=99s last drag; The Teflon Whitney; Pinault pal=
ace intrigue; Are Ai Weiwei=E2=80=99s Zodiac Heads one of the world=E2=80=
=99s most viewed contemporary artworks? Big Halsey Biennale energy:
Takako Yamaguchi=E2=80=99s Whitney Lift Loses Altitude: The artist=E2=80=99=
s market struggled in Hong Kong
Howard Rachofsky=E2=80=99s $20m Fontana Space Egg to Sell at Sotheby=E2=80=
=99s: The Dallas collector will sell his record-setting Fontana in May
Chardin Leave: France Says They=E2=80=99ll Let This One Go: The Rothschilds=
 will sell one of the last Charding still lifes in private hands=20
Results: Sotheby=E2=80=99s Hong Kong Modern & Contemporary Art =3D $108m
But first =E2=80=A6
Marlborough=E2=80=99s last drag: Marlborough Fine Art, which was founded by=
 Austrian =C3=A9migr=C3=A9 Frank Lloyd and became the gallery of Francis Ba=
con, Frank Auerbach, Lucian Freud, Barbara Hepworth, and many American abst=
ract expressionists, is closing. The real estate will be sold and the galle=
ry inventory disposed of. Of course, Marlborough=E2=80=99s reputation was d=
amaged during the =E2=80=9970s after a court case brought by Rothko=E2=80=
=99s children revealed self-dealing by the gallery and executors of the art=
ist=E2=80=99s estate. Lloyd, himself, would eventually go to prison for tam=
pering with documents presented in the case. Four years ago, the gallery we=
nt through turmoil again when Pierre and Max Levai, Lloyd=E2=80=99s relativ=
es, were sued by the gallery=E2=80=99s board. The most interesting question=
 following the decision is what remains in the gallery=E2=80=99s inventory =
and whether there is any demand for the work.=C2=A0
The Teflon Whitney: In an era when few cultural institutions escape scrutin=
y for their personnel practices, the Whitney museum has thoroughly changed =
its leadership=E2=80=94promoting internal candidates to every position from=
 the museum=E2=80=99s director to its chief curator and C.O.O.=E2=80=94with=
out a peep from the mainstream press, the art press, or various vocal inter=
est groups. Scott Rothkopf was named director without a search committee or=
 any indication that another candidate was considered by the board.=C2=A0
The Whitney has cannily played to previous critics by having Kim Conaty, th=
e new chief curator filling Rothkopf=E2=80=99s shoes, emphasize that she =
=E2=80=9Cplans to focus on Latino and Indigenous artists, who remain underr=
epresented in the Whitney=E2=80=99s collection,=E2=80=9D according to The N=
ew York Times. But Rothkopf=E2=80=99s previous achievements=E2=80=94especia=
lly the 2014 Jeff Koons retrospective that closed the Whitney=E2=80=99s res=
idency in the Breuer building, a monumental Jasper Johns retrospective that=
 mirrored a companion show in Philadelphia (while unintentionally exposing =
the museum=E2=80=99s weakness in pandering to its patrons), and the upcomin=
g 2026 Roy Lichtenstein retrospective=E2=80=94would normally draw vitriol f=
rom the same critics who forced Warren Kanders to resign from the Whitney=
=E2=80=99s board because his company produced tear gas. At the very least, =
it would appear that Rothkopf has pulled off a quiet publicity coup.
Pinault palace intrigue: It=E2=80=99s hard to tell if Bloomberg is having f=
un with us or just got a little too excited when its reporters discovered [=
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1IjoiMjdjZXI5In0.nCNhOM3c1d0jQmMpisrMe5iRnigHXx6Fx_g6pp7gWdY ] that 26-year=
-old Fran=C3=A7ois Louis Nicolas Pinault had replaced his grandfather=E2=80=
=94the formal and fearsome Monsieur Pinault who first took Christie=E2=80=
=99s private in 1998 as a white knight after a failed takeover bid by SBC W=
arburg Dillon Read=E2=80=94on Christie=E2=80=99s board. Bloomberg=E2=80=99s=
 headline declared that the appointment =E2=80=9Creveals succession path at=
 Christie=E2=80=99s,=E2=80=9D as if the younger Pinault would be moving tow=
ard an executive role at the auction house. Aside from the fact that no one=
 learns to run a business from a board seat, the news was especially intere=
sting to the art trade, which has warily watched Patrick Drahi place his 29=
-year-old son, Nathan, on a path to run Sotheby=E2=80=99s by giving him the=
 reins in Asia. The results have been mixed.=C2=A0
Are Ai Weiwei=E2=80=99s Zodiac Heads one of the world=E2=80=99s most viewed=
 contemporary artworks?: In 2009, a pair of the 12 famous zodiac head sculp=
tures looted from the Beijing Summer Palace were at the center of an intern=
ational incident when the Chinese government objected to their sale from Yv=
es Saint Laurent and Pierre Berg=C3=A9=E2=80=99s art collection. Christie=
=E2=80=99s eventually donated the two heads to the Chinese government as a =
goodwill gesture, but not before Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei created=
 his riff on the 12 statutes, which originally formed a clock in the garden=
s of the palace. Because the two works were cast in a larger bronze version=
 (in an edition of eight) and a smaller gold version (in an edition of 12),=
 the work has proliferated to an astonishing 53 different venues, and still=
 counting, around the globe. One set was donated to LACMA, where it will be=
 on permanent display in the museum=E2=80=99s garden. Others were on tempor=
ary display at both remote venues=E2=80=94like the Farnsworth in Rockland, =
Maine, or Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire=E2=80=94and prestigious museums li=
ke Cleveland=E2=80=99s encyclopedic museum and the Art Gallery of Ontario.=
=C2=A0
Big Halsey Biennale energy: On the eve of her inclusion in the Venice Bienn=
ale=E2=80=99s main event exhibition, Foreigners Everywhere [ https://substa=
ck.com/redirect/b3a41a6c-c74b-45e2-b2c8-9d478a983010?j=3DeyJ1IjoiMjdjZXI5In=
0.nCNhOM3c1d0jQmMpisrMe5iRnigHXx6Fx_g6pp7gWdY ], Lauren Halsey gets a profi=
le in [ https://substack.com/redirect/c779f976-74eb-4d17-a07e-b063ce58688f?=
j=3DeyJ1IjoiMjdjZXI5In0.nCNhOM3c1d0jQmMpisrMe5iRnigHXx6Fx_g6pp7gWdY ] GQ [ =
https://substack.com/redirect/c779f976-74eb-4d17-a07e-b063ce58688f?j=3DeyJ1=
IjoiMjdjZXI5In0.nCNhOM3c1d0jQmMpisrMe5iRnigHXx6Fx_g6pp7gWdY ]. Jasmine Sand=
ers, the writer, tries to explain the puzzle of Halsey=E2=80=99s hyper-spec=
ific art and how it also functions as a counternarrative to misrepresentati=
ons of both South Central Los Angeles and the Black urban experience. =E2=
=80=9CHer focus on granular family experiences, is what she calls a =E2=80=
=98B-side=E2=80=99 to the pervading narratives about her hometown. For Hals=
ey, her family is not just the subject of her art, her family is the art.=
=E2=80=9D
Takako Yamaguchi=E2=80=99s Whitney Lift Loses Altitude
Sotheby=E2=80=99s Hong Kong evening sale of Modern & Contemporary art gave =
us a chance to check in on the market progress of Takako Yamaguchi, the Los=
 Angeles artist whose work is featured in the current Whitney biennial. It=
=E2=80=99s not uncommon for that exhibition to boost an artist=E2=80=99s ma=
rket, but Sotheby=E2=80=99s didn=E2=80=99t wait around for that to happen. =
In March, Sotheby=E2=80=99s featured Yamaguchi=E2=80=99s 1994 work Catherin=
e and Midnight as the first lot in its London evening sale. Estimated at =
=C2=A3400,000 and backed by an =E2=80=9Cirrevocable bid,=E2=80=9D the work =
sold at almost twice that, eventually making for =C2=A3889,000 with fees, o=
r $1.1 million.=C2=A0
That=E2=80=99s extraordinary considering the artist has had a long career w=
ithout previously appearing on the auction market. In fact, Sotheby=E2=80=
=99s had a false start a week before the successful sale, when another Yama=
guchi work from 2003 was withdrawn from Sotheby=E2=80=99s New York Contempo=
rary Curated sale. Yamaguchi is represented by Ortuzar Projects, and Robert=
a Smith compared her work to elements of Georgia O=E2=80=99Keeffe and Agnes=
 Pelton in a brief review of the artist=E2=80=99s show there last year. But=
 one successful sale, even a surprise million-dollar sale, does not make an=
 artist=E2=80=99s market. There=E2=80=99s no telling who was bidding on the=
 work or what their motives might have been; however, Friday=E2=80=99s auct=
ion in Hong Kong was a chance for Sotheby=E2=80=99s to establish a confirma=
tion price=E2=80=94i.e., a sale after a new record that helps establish a n=
ew price structure for the artist.
The confirmation price is rarely at the same level as the record, but even =
a sale at half a new record price for a work of a different date, size, or =
image, can confirm that depth of demand for the artist. This is the way the=
 market verifies a price. But in Hong Kong, 2003=E2=80=99s The Fire Next Ti=
me, which was estimated at the same level as the work withdrawn in New York=
, sold for HKD 2 million which works out to about $264,000. If you=E2=80=99=
re watching this market carefully, either as a holder of Yamaguchi=E2=80=99=
s work or looking to get in on the market momentum, these numbers suggest t=
hat Yamaguchi might become the next Salvo.=C2=A0
Howard Rachofsky=E2=80=99s $20m Fontana Space Egg to Sell at Sotheby=E2=80=
=99s=C2=A0
Dallas art collectors Howard and Cindy Rachofsky are selling their Lucio Fo=
ntana Concetto Spaziale, La Fine di Dio, from 1964, which the couple bought=
 at auction in 2003. Fontana has a broad market fueled by a large number of=
 his immediately recognizable slash paintings, but the ovoid Fine di Dio wo=
rks sit at the apex. =E2=80=9CThey looked for a long time to find the best =
one,=E2=80=9D Sotheby=E2=80=99s David Galperin said of the Rachofsky=E2=80=
=99s search for a major work by Fontana in the late 1990s and early 2000s. =
=E2=80=9CThat pursuit is visible in the quality.=E2=80=9D The Rachofskys pa=
id a then-record $2.3 million for Fine di Dio. Sotheby=E2=80=99s announced =
late last week that the painting will be back on offer in May. The bright y=
ellow work (one of only four yellow ones among the 38 Fontana made) will be=
 sold with a $20 million estimate. That=E2=80=99s at least a 20-fold rise i=
n value, a worthy gain for Rachofsky, who used to manage a hedge fund. Says=
 Galperin, =E2=80=9CThere are Fine di Dios, and then there=E2=80=99s this o=
ne.=E2=80=9D=C2=A0
This weekend, the Dallas Art Fair is in full swing, which might explain the=
 timing of the announcement. It=E2=80=99s the 15th year that the fair has b=
een held. Dallas is a not-so-stealth art center with a boisterous and somet=
imes competitive collecting community. This gestalt is on display at the Ra=
chofskys=E2=80=99 Richard Meier-designed home, where they hold an annual am=
fAR fundraiser featuring an auction of work by emerging artists. The Rachof=
sky=E2=80=99s also collaborated to found The Warehouse to display the overf=
low of work that no longer fits in their home.=C2=A0
The couple support the Dallas Museum of Art, where they=E2=80=99ve pledged =
their collection with one proviso. They get to continue acquiring and selli=
ng works from their collection during their lifetimes. The Rachofskys sell =
art at auction more often than many realize, but it is usually done without=
 their provenance broadcast in the sale. In recent years, they=E2=80=99ve s=
old works by Christina Quarles and Justin Caguiat. Their sales usually time=
 the market exceptionally well.=C2=A0
Best known for his solid-colored canvases=E2=80=94often red or white but oc=
casionally other colors=E2=80=94slashed vertically with anywhere from a sin=
gle cut to a dozen or more, Fontana=E2=80=99s work is abstract, gnostic, an=
d broadly appealing across cultures. He also produced a substantial body of=
 work, which makes his art appealing in market terms. Between 2005 and Font=
ana=E2=80=99s market peak in 2015, more than a billion dollars was spent at=
 auction on the Italian master=E2=80=99s art. Inspired by the first human a=
ttempts to conquer space travel, Fontana=E2=80=99s egg-shaped Fine di Dio w=
orks are viewed as the zenith of his vast body of work. The top five prices=
 paid for Fontanas=E2=80=94all above $20 million=E2=80=94were for Fine di D=
io works.=C2=A0=C2=A0
So much of his art has sold in recent years that market supply has faded. =
=E2=80=9CThe Fontana market has changed a lot in the last decade,=E2=80=9D =
Galperin told me. In the last year or two, buyers have been actively search=
ing for, and bidding up, a wider range of works than the more common slash =
paintings. Auction totals for Fontana have been way down since the last hig=
h-volume year of 2018, but last year they rose to a five-year high of $85 m=
illion. This is mostly due to the lack of high-value works on the market. T=
he Fine di Dio works reached a peak price of $29 million nine years ago for=
 one of the three other yellow paintings.=C2=A0
One of the axioms of the auction trade is that previous record-setting work=
s often set new record prices when they return to the market, especially if=
 the work in question has been in a noted collection for a significant peri=
od of time. This Fine di Dio ticks all of those boxes. Even though the mark=
et for high-value works has faded in the last 18 months, Sotheby=E2=80=99s =
seems to have found a work that could easily attract the very top collector=
s, who still have plenty of money to spend.
Chardin Leave: France Says They=E2=80=99ll Let This One Go
Two years ago, Kimbell Art Museum paid dearly for The Basket of Wild Strawb=
erries, a still life by cult Old Master Jean-Baptiste-Sim=C3=A9on Chardin. =
The painter=E2=80=99s otherworldly work is desperately sought after by muse=
ums like the Kimbell, but even though the Fort Worth museum was willing to =
bid the work to a final selling price twice the =E2=82=AC12 million estimat=
e=E2=80=94they still could not bring the object of their intense affection =
home.=C2=A0
As everyone in the art game knows, money only gets you so far. In this case=
, the Louvre used its right of preemption to raise the money to acquire Str=
awberries and add it to their hoard of 41 other Chardins. French citizens w=
ere so passionate about hanging on to the Chardin that 10,000 individuals h=
elped raise =E2=82=AC1.6 million to get to the magic number. The bulk of th=
e funds came from LVMH, with another large chunk coming from the Soci=C3=A9=
t=C3=A9 des Amis du Louvre.
Last week, Christie=E2=80=99s announced that another Chardin, one of the la=
st works remaining in private hands, will be auctioned in Paris this June. =
Le melon entam=C3=A9, painted in 1760, will carry an =E2=82=AC8 million est=
imate. The rare oval work is another still life of fruit, but this one has =
been cleared for export=E2=80=94or, as Christie=E2=80=99s insists on puttin=
g it, =E2=80=9CThe painting is in free circulation, making it available to =
collectors worldwide.=E2=80=9D
No one would blame the Kimbell if it viewed that statement with some skepti=
cism. The wild strawberries came from the collection of Eudoxe Marcille, wh=
o died in 1890. The painting remained with his descendants until it was sol=
d at Artcurial in 2022. Marcille=E2=80=99s father had been a pioneering col=
lector of 18th century art who led the rediscovery of Chardin in the early =
19th century. Le melon entam=C3=A9 was also in Marcille=E2=80=99s collectio=
n, but it had been bequeathed to Eudoxe=E2=80=99s brother Camille, who died=
 15 years before Eudoxe. At that point, in 1875, a branch of the Rothschild=
 family bought the still life. Their descendants are selling. Three years a=
go, the Dutch Rijksmuseum bought Rembrandt=E2=80=99s The Standard Bearer fr=
om another branch of the Rothschilds for =E2=82=AC175 million.=C2=A0
Results
Sotheby=E2=80=99s Hong Kong Modern & Contemporary Art =3D $108m
The Contemporary art market continues to fall like a knife. Most buyers are=
 choosing to step aside instead of trying to catch it. Sotheby=E2=80=99s Ho=
ng Kong Modern & Contemporary art sales were heavily managed to $108 millio=
n in total sales. The house aggressively removed 11 lots before the sale wi=
th a presale estimate of HKD 82.5 million, or more than $10 million. That=
=E2=80=99s a bit above 10 percent of the presale estimated value removed to=
 protect the lots for future sale and project confidence to clients. The ha=
mmer ratio (the aggregate hammer price of all lots before fees, divided by =
the aggregate presale estimates minus withdrawn lots) was a weak but almost=
 respectable .96. Add the withdrawn lots back in and the hammer ratio fell =
to .86, which is a number that tells us the estimates for the sale were sti=
ll way above where the market sees value. The sell-through rate after withd=
rawals was an industry average 82 percent. Add the withdrawals back and you=
 would have a weak 77 percent. Only 23 percent of the lots saw aggressive b=
idding. Three of those 33 works were by Wu Guanzhong, a painter who fused t=
raditional Chinese painting with the bright colors of Impressionism and Pos=
t-Impressionism, three by Andy Warhol, and two by Zao Wou-ki. The remaining=
 25 works were by 25 different artists, which is a good sign for the breadt=
h of the market.=C2=A0=C2=A0
Only one of the top lots by price, an 1881 painting by Renoir, saw aggressi=
ve bidding above the estimate range. Works by Yoshitomo Nara, Picasso, Mone=
t, Yayoi Kusama, and Zao Wou-ki were also among the most expensive lots but=
 sold at or below their estimates. Sotheby=E2=80=99s had already reduced th=
e overall number of Hong Kong lots in the Modern and Contemporary category =
by half. That brought down the total estimated value of the sale by a quart=
er in the process. Yet it was still not enough to entice bidders. These res=
ults are a reminder that buyers and sellers remain out of sync with each ot=
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e-height: 26px; margin: 0; margin-bottom: 0; padding-left: 4px;"><strong>Bu=
t first: </strong><em>Marlborough&#8217;s last drag; The Teflon Whitney; Pi=
nault palace intrigue; Are Ai Weiwei&#8217;s Zodiac Heads one of the world&=
#8217;s most viewed contemporary artworks? Big Halsey Biennale energy</em><=
span>:</span></p></li><li style=3D"margin: 8px 0 0 32px;"><p style=3D"box-s=
izing: border-box; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26=
px; margin: 0; margin-bottom: 0; padding-left: 4px;"><strong>Takako Yamaguc=
hi&#8217;s Whitney Lift Loses Altitude: </strong><span>The artist&#8217;s m=
arket struggled in Hong Kong</span></p></li><li style=3D"margin: 8px 0 0 32=
px;"><p style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size:=
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<strong>Howard Rachofsky&#8217;s $20m Fontana Space Egg to Sell at Sotheby&=
#8217;s: </strong><span>The Dallas collector will sell his record-setting F=
ontana in May</span></p></li><li style=3D"margin: 8px 0 0 32px;"><p style=
=3D"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-h=
eight: 26px; margin: 0; margin-bottom: 0; padding-left: 4px;"><strong>Chard=
in Leave: France Says They&#8217;ll Let This One Go: </strong><span>The Rot=
hschilds will sell one of the last Charding still lifes in private hands </=
span></p></li><li style=3D"margin: 8px 0 0 32px;"><p style=3D"box-sizing: b=
order-box; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; marg=
in: 0; margin-bottom: 0; padding-left: 4px;"><strong>Results: </strong><spa=
n>Sotheby&#8217;s Hong Kong Modern &amp; Contemporary Art =3D $108m</span><=
/p></li></ol><div style=3D"font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;"><hr style=
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8230;</em></h4><ul style=3D"margin-top: 0; padding: 0;"><li style=3D"margin=
: 8px 0 0 32px; mso-special-format: bullet;"><p style=3D"box-sizing: border=
-box; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0=
; margin-bottom: 0; padding-left: 4px;"><em>Marlborough&#8217;s last drag</=
em><span>: Marlborough Fine Art, which was founded by Austrian &#233;migr&#=
233; </span><strong>Frank Lloyd </strong><span>and became the gallery of </=
span><strong>Francis Bacon</strong><span>, </span><strong>Frank Auerbach</s=
trong><span>, </span><strong>Lucian Freud</strong><span>, </span><strong>Ba=
rbara Hepworth</strong><span>,</span><strong> </strong><span>and many Ameri=
can abstract expressionists, is closing. The real estate will be sold and t=
he gallery inventory disposed of. Of course, Marlborough&#8217;s reputation=
 was damaged during the &#8217;70s after a court case brought by Rothko&#82=
17;s children revealed self-dealing by the gallery and executors of the art=
ist&#8217;s estate. Lloyd, himself, would eventually go to prison for tampe=
ring with documents presented in the case. Four years ago, the gallery went=
 through turmoil again when </span><strong>Pierre</strong><span> and </span=
><strong>Max Levai</strong><span>, Lloyd&#8217;s relatives, were sued by th=
e gallery&#8217;s board. The most interesting question following the decisi=
on is what remains in the gallery&#8217;s inventory and whether there is an=
y demand for the work.&#160;</span></p></li><li style=3D"margin: 8px 0 0 32=
px; mso-special-format: bullet;"><p style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; color:=
 rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; m=
argin-bottom: 0; padding-left: 4px;"><em>The Teflon Whitney</em><span>: In =
an era when few cultural institutions escape scrutiny for their personnel p=
ractices, the Whitney museum has thoroughly changed its leadership&#8212;pr=
omoting internal candidates to every position from the museum&#8217;s direc=
tor to its chief curator and C.O.O.&#8212;without a peep from the mainstrea=
m press, the art press, or various vocal interest groups. </span><strong>Sc=
ott Rothkopf </strong><span>was named director without a search committee o=
r any indication that another candidate was considered by the board.&#160;<=
/span></p><p style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-=
size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-bottom: 0; paddin=
g-left: 4px;"><span>The Whitney has cannily played to previous critics by h=
aving</span><strong> Kim Conaty</strong><span>, the new chief curator filli=
ng Rothkopf&#8217;s shoes, emphasize that she &#8220;plans to focus on Lati=
no and Indigenous artists, who remain underrepresented in the Whitney&#8217=
;s collection,&#8221; according to </span><em>The</em><span> </span><em>New=
 York Times</em><span>. But Rothkopf&#8217;s previous achievements&#8212;es=
pecially the 2014 </span><strong>Jeff Koons</strong><span> retrospective th=
at closed the Whitney&#8217;s residency in the Breuer building, a monumenta=
l </span><strong>Jasper Johns </strong><span>retrospective that mirrored a =
companion show in Philadelphia (while unintentionally exposing the museum&#=
8217;s weakness in pandering to its patrons), and the upcoming 2026 </span>=
<strong>Roy Lichtenstein</strong><span> retrospective&#8212;would normally =
draw vitriol from the same critics who forced </span><strong>Warren Kanders=
</strong><span> to resign from the Whitney&#8217;s board because his compan=
y produced tear gas. At the very least, it would appear that Rothkopf has p=
ulled off a quiet publicity coup.</span></p></li><li style=3D"margin: 8px 0=
 0 32px; mso-special-format: bullet;"><p style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; c=
olor: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0; margi=
n-bottom: 0; padding-left: 4px;"><em>Pinault palace intrigue</em><span>: It=
&#8217;s hard to tell if Bloomberg is having fun with us or just got a litt=
le too excited when its reporters </span><a href=3D"https://substack.com/re=
direct/40ebf345-044f-4ae0-9868-3127d8414e11?j=3DeyJ1IjoiMjdjZXI5In0.nCNhOM3=
c1d0jQmMpisrMe5iRnigHXx6Fx_g6pp7gWdY" rel style=3D"color: rgb(54, 55, 55); =
text-decoration: underline;">discovered</a><span> that 26-year-old </span><=
strong>Fran&#231;ois Louis Nicolas Pinault</strong><span> had replaced his =
grandfather&#8212;the formal and fearsome </span><em><strong>Monsieur</stro=
ng></em><strong> Pinault</strong><span> who first took Christie&#8217;s pri=
vate in 1998 as a white knight after a failed takeover bid by SBC Warburg D=
illon Read&#8212;on Christie&#8217;s board. Bloomberg&#8217;s headline decl=
ared that the appointment &#8220;reveals succession path at Christie&#8217;=
s,&#8221; as if the younger Pinault would be moving toward an executive rol=
e at the auction house. Aside from the fact that no one learns to run a bus=
iness from a board seat, the news was especially interesting to the art tra=
de, which has warily watched </span><strong>Patrick Drahi</strong><span> pl=
ace his 29-year-old son, </span><strong>Nathan</strong><span>, on a path to=
 run Sotheby&#8217;s by giving him the reins in Asia. The results have been=
 mixed.&#160;</span></p></li><li style=3D"margin: 8px 0 0 32px; mso-special=
-format: bullet;"><p style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(54, 55, 55=
); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0; margin-bottom: 0; padding=
-left: 4px;"><em>Are Ai Weiwei&#8217;s Zodiac Heads one of the world&#8217;=
s most viewed contemporary artworks?</em><span>: In 2009, a pair of the 12 =
famous zodiac head sculptures looted from the Beijing Summer Palace were at=
 the center of an international incident when the Chinese government object=
ed to their sale from </span><strong>Yves Saint Laurent </strong><span>and =
</span><strong>Pierre Berg&#233;</strong><span>&#8217;s art collection. Chr=
istie&#8217;s eventually donated the two heads to the Chinese government as=
 a goodwill gesture, but not before Chinese dissident artist </span><strong=
>Ai Weiwei </strong><span>created his riff on the 12 statutes, which origin=
ally formed a clock in the gardens of the palace. Because the two works wer=
e cast in a larger bronze version (in an edition of eight) and a smaller go=
ld version (in an edition of 12), the work has proliferated to an astonishi=
ng</span><em> 53</em><span> different venues, and still counting, around th=
e globe. One set was donated to LACMA, where it will be on permanent displa=
y in the museum&#8217;s garden. Others were on temporary display at both re=
mote venues&#8212;like the Farnsworth in Rockland, Maine, or Blenheim Palac=
e in Oxfordshire&#8212;and prestigious museums like Cleveland&#8217;s encyc=
lopedic museum and the Art Gallery of Ontario.&#160;</span></p></li><li sty=
le=3D"margin: 8px 0 0 32px; mso-special-format: bullet;"><p style=3D"box-si=
zing: border-box; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26p=
x; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-bottom: 0; padding-left: 4px;"><em>Big Halsey=
 Biennale energy</em><span>: On the eve of her inclusion in the Venice Bien=
nale&#8217;s main event exhibition, </span><em><a href=3D"https://substack.=
com/redirect/b3a41a6c-c74b-45e2-b2c8-9d478a983010?j=3DeyJ1IjoiMjdjZXI5In0.n=
CNhOM3c1d0jQmMpisrMe5iRnigHXx6Fx_g6pp7gWdY" rel style=3D"color: rgb(54, 55,=
 55); text-decoration: underline;">Foreigners Everywhere</a></em><span>, </=
span><strong>Lauren Halsey</strong><span> gets</span><a href=3D"https://sub=
stack.com/redirect/c779f976-74eb-4d17-a07e-b063ce58688f?j=3DeyJ1IjoiMjdjZXI=
5In0.nCNhOM3c1d0jQmMpisrMe5iRnigHXx6Fx_g6pp7gWdY" rel style=3D"color: rgb(5=
4, 55, 55); text-decoration: underline;"> a profile in</a><em><a href=3D"ht=
tps://substack.com/redirect/c779f976-74eb-4d17-a07e-b063ce58688f?j=3DeyJ1Ij=
oiMjdjZXI5In0.nCNhOM3c1d0jQmMpisrMe5iRnigHXx6Fx_g6pp7gWdY" rel style=3D"col=
or: rgb(54, 55, 55); text-decoration: underline;"> GQ</a></em><span>. </spa=
n><strong>Jasmine Sanders</strong><span>, the writer, tries to explain the =
puzzle of Halsey&#8217;s hyper-specific art and how it also functions as a =
counternarrative to misrepresentations of both South Central Los Angeles an=
d the Black urban experience. &#8220;Her focus on granular family experienc=
es, is what she calls a &#8216;B-side&#8217; to the pervading narratives ab=
out her hometown. For Halsey, her family is not just the subject of her art=
, her family </span><em>is</em><span> the art.&#8221;</span></p><div style=
=3D"font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;"><hr style=3D"background: #d4d4d4; =
border: none; height: 1px; margin: 32px 0; padding: 0;"></div></li></ul><h4=
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rgin: 1em 0 0.625em 0; position: relative;"><strong>Takako Yamaguchi&#8217;=
s Whitney Lift Loses Altitude</strong></h4><div class=3D"captioned-image-co=
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ng: content-box; color: #777777; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; letter-=
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ding-right: 15%; text-align: center; width: 70%;"><span>Takako Yamaguchi, <=
/span><em>The Fire Next Time </em><span>(2004), HKD 2.032 million</span></f=
igcaption></figure></div><p style=3D"color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16p=
x; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>Sotheby&#8217;s Hong Kong =
evening sale of Modern &amp; Contemporary art gave us a chance to check in =
on the market progress of </span><strong>Takako Yamaguchi</strong><span>, t=
he Los Angeles artist whose work is featured in the current Whitney biennia=
l. It&#8217;s not uncommon for that exhibition to boost an artist&#8217;s m=
arket, but Sotheby&#8217;s didn&#8217;t wait around for that to happen. In =
March, Sotheby&#8217;s featured Yamaguchi&#8217;s 1994 work </span><em>Cath=
erine and Midnight </em><span>as the first lot in its London evening sale. =
Estimated at &#163;400,000 and backed by an &#8220;irrevocable bid,&#8221; =
the work sold at almost twice that, eventually making for &#163;889,000 wit=
h fees, or $1.1 million.&#160;</span></p><p style=3D"color: rgb(54, 55, 55)=
; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>That&#8217=
;s extraordinary considering the artist has had a long career without previ=
ously appearing on the auction market. In fact, Sotheby&#8217;s had a false=
 start a week before the successful sale, when another Yamaguchi work from =
2003 was withdrawn from Sotheby&#8217;s New York Contemporary Curated sale.=
 Yamaguchi is represented by Ortuzar Projects, and </span><strong>Roberta S=
mith</strong><span> compared her work to elements of </span><strong>Georgia=
 O&#8217;Keeffe </strong><span>and </span><strong>Agnes Pelton </strong><sp=
an>in a brief review of the artist&#8217;s show there last year. But one su=
ccessful sale, even a surprise million-dollar sale, does not make an artist=
&#8217;s market. There&#8217;s no telling who was bidding on the work or wh=
at their motives might have been; however, Friday&#8217;s auction in Hong K=
ong was a chance for Sotheby&#8217;s to establish a confirmation price&#821=
2;i.e., a sale after a new record that helps establish a new price structur=
e for the artist.</span></p><p style=3D"color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: =
16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>The confirmation price =
is rarely at the same level as the record, but even a sale at half a new re=
cord price for a work of a different date, size, or image, can confirm that=
 depth of demand for the artist. This is the way the market verifies a pric=
e. But in Hong Kong, 2003&#8217;s </span><em>The Fire Next Time</em><span>,=
 which was estimated at the same level as the work withdrawn in New York, s=
old for HKD 2 million which works out to about $264,000. If you&#8217;re wa=
tching this market carefully, either as a holder of Yamaguchi&#8217;s work =
or looking to get in on the market momentum, these numbers suggest that Yam=
aguchi might become the next Salvo.&#160;</span></p><div style=3D"font-size=
: 16px; line-height: 26px;"><hr style=3D"background: #d4d4d4; border: none;=
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ple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-=
serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size:=
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position: relative;"><strong>Howard Rachofsky&#8217;s $20m Fontana Space Eg=
g to Sell at Sotheby&#8217;s&#160;</strong></h4><div class=3D"captioned-ima=
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etter-spacing: -.15px; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 8px; padding-left: 15=
%; padding-right: 15%; text-align: center; width: 70%;">Lucio Fontana in hi=
s studio (the Rachofsky&#8217;s Fine di Dio is seen on the right in the bac=
kground behind other works.)</figcaption></figure></div><p style=3D"color: =
rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><=
span>Dallas art collectors </span><strong>Howard </strong><span>and </span>=
<strong>Cindy Rachofsky </strong><span>are selling their </span><strong>Luc=
io Fontana </strong><em>Concetto Spaziale, La Fine di Dio</em><span>, from =
1964, which the couple bought at auction in 2003. Fontana has a broad marke=
t fueled by a large number of his immediately recognizable slash paintings,=
 but the ovoid </span><em>Fine di Dio</em><span> works sit at the apex. &#8=
220;They looked for a long time to find the best one,&#8221; Sotheby&#8217;=
s </span><strong>David Galperin </strong><span>said of the Rachofsky&#8217;=
s search for a major work by Fontana in the late 1990s and early 2000s. &#8=
220;That pursuit is visible in the quality.&#8221; The Rachofskys paid a th=
en-record $2.3 million for </span><em>Fine di Dio</em><span>. Sotheby&#8217=
;s announced late last week that the painting will be back on offer in May.=
 The bright yellow work (one of only four yellow ones among the 38 Fontana =
made) will be sold with a $20 million estimate. That&#8217;s at least a 20-=
fold rise in value, a worthy gain for Rachofsky, who used to manage a hedge=
 fund. Says Galperin, &#8220;There are </span><em>Fine di Dio</em><span>s, =
and then there&#8217;s this one.&#8221;&#160;</span></p><p style=3D"color: =
rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><=
span>This weekend, the Dallas Art Fair is in full swing, which might explai=
n the timing of the announcement. It&#8217;s the 15th year that the fair ha=
s been held. Dallas is a not-so-stealth art center with a boisterous and so=
metimes competitive collecting community. This gestalt is on display at the=
 Rachofskys&#8217; </span><strong>Richard Meier</strong><span>-designed hom=
e, where they hold an annual amfAR fundraiser featuring an auction of work =
by emerging artists. The Rachofsky&#8217;s also collaborated to found The W=
arehouse to display the overflow of work that no longer fits in their home.=
&#160;</span></p><p style=3D"color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-=
height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>The couple support the Dallas Muse=
um of Art, where they&#8217;ve pledged their collection with one proviso. T=
hey get to continue acquiring and selling works from their collection durin=
g their lifetimes. The Rachofskys sell art at auction more often than many =
realize, but it is usually done without their provenance broadcast in the s=
ale. In recent years, they&#8217;ve sold works by </span><strong>Christina =
Quarles </strong><span>and </span><strong>Justin Caguiat</strong><span>. Th=
eir sales usually time the market exceptionally well.&#160;</span></p><p st=
yle=3D"color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: =
0 0 20px 0;"><span>Best known for his solid-colored canvases&#8212;often re=
d or white but occasionally other colors&#8212;slashed vertically with anyw=
here from a single cut to a dozen or more, Fontana&#8217;s work is abstract=
, gnostic, and broadly appealing across cultures. He also produced a substa=
ntial body of work, which makes his art appealing in market terms. Between =
2005 and Fontana&#8217;s market peak in 2015, more than a billion dollars w=
as spent at auction on the Italian master&#8217;s art. Inspired by the firs=
t human attempts to conquer space travel, Fontana&#8217;s egg-shaped </span=
><em>Fine di Dio</em><span> works are viewed as the zenith of his vast body=
 of work. The top five prices paid for Fontanas&#8212;all above $20 million=
&#8212;were for </span><em>Fine di Dio</em><span> works.&#160;&#160;</span>=
</p><p style=3D"color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;=
 margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>So much of his art has sold in recent years tha=
t market supply has faded. &#8220;The Fontana market has changed a lot in t=
he last decade,&#8221; Galperin told me. In the last year or two, buyers ha=
ve been actively searching for, and bidding up, a wider range of works than=
 the more common slash paintings. Auction totals for Fontana have been way =
down since the last high-volume year of 2018, but last year they rose to a =
five-year high of $85 million. This is mostly due to the lack of high-value=
 works on the market. The </span><em>Fine di Dio</em><span> works reached a=
 peak price of $29 million nine years ago for one of the three other yellow=
 paintings.&#160;</span></p><p style=3D"color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: =
16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>One of the axioms of th=
e auction trade is that previous record-setting works often set new record =
prices when they return to the market, especially if the work in question h=
as been in a noted collection for a significant period of time. This </span=
><em>Fine di Dio</em><span> ticks all of those boxes. Even though the marke=
t for high-value works has faded in the last 18 months, Sotheby&#8217;s see=
ms to have found a work that could easily attract the very top collectors, =
who still have plenty of money to spend.</span></p><div class=3D"captioned-=
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ition: relative;"><strong>Chardin Leave: France Says They&#8217;ll Let This=
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width=3D"1392" style=3D"text-align: center;"><a class=3D"image-link" target=
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able><figcaption class=3D"image-caption" style=3D"box-sizing: content-box; =
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line-height: 20px; margin-top: 8px; padding-left: 15%; padding-right: 15%; =
text-align: center; width: 70%;"><span>Jean-Baptiste-Sim&#233;on Chardin, <=
/span><em>The Sliced Melon</em><span> (1760) estimate &#8364;8m</span></fig=
caption></figure></div><p style=3D"color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px;=
 line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>Two years ago, Kimbell Art M=
useum paid dearly for </span><em>The Basket of Wild Strawberries</em><span>=
, a still life by cult Old Master </span><strong>Jean-Baptiste-Sim&#233;on =
Chardin</strong><span>. The painter&#8217;s otherworldly work is desperatel=
y sought after by museums like the Kimbell, but even though the Fort Worth =
museum was willing to bid the work to a final selling price twice the &#836=
4;12 million estimate&#8212;they still could not bring the object of their =
intense affection home.&#160;</span></p><p style=3D"color: rgb(54, 55, 55);=
 font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>As everyone=
 in the art game knows, money only gets you so far. In this case, the Louvr=
e used its right of preemption to raise the money to acquire </span><em>Str=
awberries</em><span> and add it to their hoard of 41 other Chardins. French=
 citizens were so passionate about hanging on to the Chardin that 10,000 in=
dividuals helped raise &#8364;1.6 million to get to the magic number. The b=
ulk of the funds came from LVMH, with another large chunk coming from the S=
oci&#233;t&#233; des Amis du Louvre.</span></p><p style=3D"color: rgb(54, 5=
5, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>Last=
 week, Christie&#8217;s announced that another Chardin, one of the last wor=
ks remaining in private hands, will be auctioned in Paris this June. </span=
><em>Le melon entam&#233;</em><span>, painted in 1760, will carry an &#8364=
;8 million estimate. The rare oval work is another still life of fruit, but=
 this one has been cleared for export&#8212;or, as Christie&#8217;s insists=
 on putting it, &#8220;The painting is in free circulation, making it avail=
able to collectors worldwide.&#8221;</span></p><p style=3D"color: rgb(54, 5=
5, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>No o=
ne would blame the Kimbell if it viewed that statement with some skepticism=
=2E The wild strawberries came from the=
 collection of </span><strong>Eudoxe M=
arcille</strong><span>, who died in 1890. The painting remained with his de=
scendants until it was sold at Artcurial in 2022. Marcille&#8217;s father h=
ad been a pioneering collector of 18th century art who led the rediscovery =
of Chardin in the early 19th century. </span><em>Le melon entam&#233; </em>=
<span>was also in Marcille&#8217;s collection, but it had been bequeathed t=
o Eudoxe&#8217;s brother </span><strong>Camille</strong><span>, who died 15=
 years before Eudoxe. At that point, in 1875, a branch of the Rothschild fa=
mily bought the still life. Their descendants are selling. Three years ago,=
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rer</em><span> from another branch of the Rothschilds for &#8364;175 millio=
n.&#160;</span></p><div style=3D"font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;"><hr s=
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heby&#8217;s Hong Kong Modern &amp; Contemporary Art =3D $108m</strong></h4=
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nt-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>The Contempora=
ry art market continues to fall like a knife. Most buyers are choosing to s=
tep aside instead of trying to catch it. Sotheby&#8217;s Hong Kong Modern &=
amp; Contemporary art sales were heavily managed to $108 million in total s=
ales. The house aggressively removed 11 lots before the sale with a presale=
 estimate of HKD 82.5 million, or more than $10 million. That&#8217;s a bit=
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s for future sale and project confidence to clients. The hammer ratio (the =
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esale estimates minus withdrawn lots) was a weak but almost respectable .96=
=2E Add the withdrawn lots back in and=20=
the hammer ratio fell to .86, which is=
 a number that tells us the estimates for the sale were still way above whe=
re the market sees value. The sell-through rate after withdrawals was an in=
dustry average 82 percent. Add the withdrawals back and you would have a we=
ak 77 percent. Only 23 percent of the lots saw aggressive bidding. Three of=
 those 33 works were by </span><strong>Wu Guanzhong</strong><span>, a paint=
er who fused traditional Chinese painting with the bright colors of Impress=
ionism and Post-Impressionism, three by </span><strong>Andy Warhol</strong>=
<span>, and two by </span><strong>Zao Wou-ki</strong><span>. The remaining =
25 works were by 25 different artists, which is a good sign for the breadth=
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Renoir</strong><span>, saw aggressive bidding above the estimate range. Wor=
ks by</span><strong> Yoshitomo Nara</strong><span>,</span><strong> Picasso<=
/strong><span>,</span><strong> Monet</strong><span>,</span><strong> Yayoi K=
usama</strong><span>,</span><strong> </strong><span>and</span><strong> </st=
rong><span>Zao Wou-ki were also among the most expensive lots but sold at o=
r below their estimates. Sotheby&#8217;s had already reduced the overall nu=
mber of Hong Kong lots in the Modern and Contemporary category by half. Tha=
t brought down the total estimated value of the sale by a quarter in the pr=
ocess. Yet it was still not enough to entice bidders. These results are a r=
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