"Artron X Artprice 2021 Global Art Market Annual List Release" is a joint launch of artron art market monitoring center (AMMA) and Artprice, a well-known French art institution.
Based on the accumulation of art data from both parties for many years, the annual list analyzes and counts the transactions of artists and artworks in the global pure art market in the sample auction company in 2021, a total of 8 lists.
According to the 2021 Global Art Market National Turnover Top20 List, this year, China successfully surpassed the United States with a turnover of 37.506 billion yuan and ranked first in the world.
In contrast to the Western market, the Chinese art market has been full of surprises, with turnover increasing by 43% year-on-year, achieving significant growth. The U.S. market structure is different from China's, and the supply of works is more dense and diverse.
This year, the U.S. market accounts for more than 20% of the world's total turnover. Its total global turnover was $36.577 billion, ranking second in the world.
The United Kingdom ranked third with a total turnover of 12.618 billion yuan. In the face of the dominance of the US market and competition with the French market, the market performance of the UK this year has shown a weak trend.
The World's fourth-ranked French market performed solidly, with a total turnover of $6.368 billion. From 2015 to 2019, its growth pace was steady and upward, slowing down in 2020 due to the epidemic, and in 2021, it faced a slow and strong recovery in the UK market, hitting a record high. With more than 91,000 works sold in France, it is the most active and diverse market in the world after the United States, with a total volume twice that of Germany.
Picasso is the world's highest-grossing artist (about 3,400 works sold), and the prices of his works vary widely: from the cheapest $1,000 prints to the most expensive ones that set an annual record of more than $100 million.
In 2021, Picasso's personal turnover reached a staggering $671 million, a significant increase from $245 million last year, and 20 more million-dollar works than last year.
Artists such as Kaws, Shepard Fairey, Banksy and Murakami are also rising in popularity year by year and are regulars on the top 10 highest-grossing artists in the world.
Murakami Takamoto's 2021 annual trading volume reached a new high (1,468 pieces), most of which were prints (accounting for 87% of the volume), and its price range was acceptable to most people. Banks' sales also climbed, to more than 1,000 units. Also driven by new auction record and strong sales, the street artist ranked eighth on the list of the world's highest-grossing artists with a total turnover of $205.8 million (87 works sold), ahead of Theago Seiren. Cy Twombly.
In the 2021 top 10 list of artists with high-priced works in the world, the artist at the top of the list is Sandro Botticelli. His classic, Young Man with a Circular Icon, sold for more than $92 million at Sotheby's in New York in 2021, setting a new personal record for Botticelli and setting the second highest price for Western classical art, behind leonardo da Vinci's "The Savior" (November 2017), which sold for $450 million.
In the current turbulent global situation, the smooth completion of this lot is of great significance to the sluggish art market.
Ancient Chinese artist Xu Yang ranked third on the list. His epic masterpiece "Pingding Western Regions Tribute To The Captive" sold for 414 million yuan in the 2021 spring auction of Beijing Poly, winning the most expensive ancient Chinese painting and calligraphy in 2021, and also greatly refreshing the record for the highest price of Xu Yang's works at auction, and becoming the third highest price of ancient Chinese paintings and calligraphy in the world.
The work was sold for 134.4 million yuan in 2009, and has long maintained the record of the highest level of Xu Yang's work, and this time it was auctioned again after 12 years, with a premium of more than 2 times.
More artist ranking lists, such as "2021 Global Classical Art Masters Ranking TOP10", "2021 Global Modern Artist Ranking TOP10", "2021 Global Post-War Artist Ranking Top 10", "2021 Global Contemporary Artist Ranking TOP10", "2021 Global Post-75 Artist Ranking TOP10" will be released tomorrow, so stay tuned!