Christie’s to auction famed portrait of George Washington used on $1 bill. https://ift.tt/fjTYpyd

A portrait of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart, commissioned by President James Madison, will be featured during Christie’s Americana Week auctions in January. The oil-on-canvas painting will be offered as part of “We the People: America at 250,” with an estimate of $500,000 to $1 million. The sale will take place on January 23, 2026.

Painted by Stuart, the most prolific portraitist of Washington, the work belongs to a group of approximately 75 portraits in this pose that were produced around 1796. Madison commissioned the painting in 1804, though the artist did not complete it until 1811, reflecting Stuart’s often-delayed working process and his habit of revisiting popular compositions. Washington was known to dislike long portrait sittings, which is why Stuart relied on repeatable formats. Made in the “Athenaeum type” format, the work inspired Washington’s likeness on the one-dollar bill.

At first, the painting’s origins were thought to be dubious; however, Martha Willoughby, a specialist consultant in Christie’s Americana department, told Artnet News that the auction house found a letter from Madison’s secretary confirming its provenance.

The portrait remained with Madison and his family before passing through several prominent American collections, including those of industrialist James W. Ellsworth, art collector William K. Bixby, and Richard L. Clarkson. In 1951, the portrait entered Clarkson University’s collection in New York, where it was stolen by a group of students, though it was recovered after their arrest.

In addition to Washington, Stuart painted other leading figures of the early American republic, including Presidents John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, and Madison. In January 2024, Stuart’s George Washington (Vaughn type) (1795), another portrait of Washington, was sold for $2.83 million at Christie’s.

The Washington portrait is just one of the highlights of the auction house’s Americana Week, which will comprise nine auctions and approximately 700 lots, running from January 13 to 28, 2026. Other lots include a broadside printing of the Declaration of Independence produced in July 1776, estimated at $3 million–$5 million, and the Steve Jobs–signed contract that founded the Apple Computer Company, estimated at $2 million–$4 million.

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The 10 Most Expensive Auction Works in 2025 https://ift.tt/PVxe9gO

After a quieter 2024, the top end of the auction market this year was characterized by blockbuster sales of artworks by seminal artists.

The price for the 100 most expensive lots sold at auction totaled $2.13 billion, up from last year’s total of $1.8 billion. Much of the top-end ballast in the auction market came from the marquee New York sales in November. During that week, Sotheby’s, Christie’s, and Phillips together made more than $2 billion in sales and set 16 artist auction records. Indeed, 9 of the top 10 lots of the year were sold this fall.

Here, we run down the top 10 lots at auction in 2025. All prices include fees.

Gustav Klimt, Bildnis Elisabeth Lederer (Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer, 1914

Sold for: $236,360,000

Sotheby’s

Gustav Klimt’s Bildnis Elisabeth Lederer (Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer) (1914) sold for $236.36 million, making it the second-most-expensive artwork ever sold at auction.

Part of a sale of works from American philanthropist Leonard A. Lauder’s collection, Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer stands at 6 feet tall and depicts Elisabeth Lederer, the Austrian heiress of Klimt’s leading patrons, August and Serena Lederer. The woman is dressed in a Chinese robe and a white shawl with floral patterns, and the work belongs to a group of paintings where Klimt was inspired by East Asian art. The Nazis seized the work in 1939, but eventually, they returned it to Elisabeth’s brother, Erich, in 1948. Lauder acquired the work in 1985 and kept it in his New York home until his passing in June.

Klimt’s previous auction record was held by Dame mit Fächer (1917), which sold for $108 million at Sotheby’s in 2023.

Gustav Klimt, Blumenwiese (Blooming Meadow), 1908

Sold for: $86,000,000

Sotheby’s

Painted during a summer retreat to Lake Attersee in Austria, Klimt’s Blumenwiese (Blooming Meadow) (1908) fetched $86 million during the Lauder sale. The work exemplifies Klimt’s radical, mosaic-like approach to landscape at the height of his experimentation and is one of his most valuable landscape paintings. The only other landscape by Klimt to sell for more is Birch Forest (1903), which sold for $104.6 million in 2022 at Christie’s.

Blumenwiese was first acquired by the Koller family, who were friends and patrons of Klimt.

Gustav Klimt, Waldabhang bei Unterach am Attersee (Forest Slope in Unterach on the Attersee), 1916

Sold for: $68,320,000

Sotheby’s

The last of three Klimt masterpieces to appear during the Lauder auction, Waldabhang bei Unterach am Attersee (Forest Slope in Unterach on the Attersee) (1916), sold for $68.32 million, just below its $70 million estimate. Executed during the artist’s final summer at Lake Attersee, it is the last surviving landscape of his career. It depicts the serene, densely wooded landscape beyond Austria’s Salzkammergut region, a quiet counterpoint to a Europe engulfed in war.

This sale marked Waldabhang bei Unterach am Attersee’s auction debut. This work appeared in Neue Galerie’s 150th Anniversary Celebration exhibition in 2012 and was displayed at the National Gallery of Canada from 2017 to 2025.

Vincent van Gogh, Piles de romans parisiens et roses dans une verre (Romans parisiens), 1887

Sold for $62,710,000

Sotheby’s

Vincent van Gogh’s Piles de romans parisiens et roses dans une verre (Romans parisiens) (1887) sold for $62.71 million after a seven-minute bidding battle at Sotheby’s in November. The work was part of the 13-lot sale of works from the collection of Cindy and Jay Pritzker and was acquired by Hong Kong–based art adviser Patti Wong.

The intimate, warm still-life features piles of books in a room widely believed to be in his brother Theo’s apartment, where he lived at the time. Theo submitted Piles de romans to the Salon des Indépendants art exhibition in 1888, alongside two landscapes of Montmartre by the artist.

The result nearly doubled the previous auction record for a painting from the artist’s Paris period during the late 1880s. That was previously held by Corner of a Garden with Butterflies (1887), which sold for $33.2 million in 2024 at Christie’s.

Mark Rothko, No. 31 (Yellow Stripe), 1958

Sold for $62,160,000

Christie’s

Mark Rothko’s No. 31 (Yellow Stripe) (1958) sold in November for $62.16 million at Christie’s, making it the top lot sold by the auction house this year. The canvas captures a brief phase in Rothko’s career marked by luminous color and spiritual intensity before his palette turned darker and more austere—a period that began with his famed Seagram Murals later that year.

No. 31 (Yellow Stripe) is structured around two stacked fields of red, pink, peach, and yellow, loosely contained by an intensified outer border. The work was part of a sale from the collection of Patricia G. Ross Weis and Robert F. Weis.

Frida Kahlo, El sueño (La cama), 1940

Sold for $54,660,000

Sotheby’s

Frida Kahlo’s El sueño (La cama) (1940) reached $54.66 million at Sotheby’s in November, becoming the most expensive work sold at auction by a woman artist. The work was consigned to the auction house from the estate of Selma Ertegun and featured in Sotheby’s Exquisite Corpus Surrealism evening auction. The sale featured works by artists including Dorothea Tanning and Kay Sage, and it realized a total of $98.1 million.

This self-portrait depicts the artist lying in bed, entwined with vines and suspended in the sky. Hovering above her is a monumental skeletal figure, wired with dynamite and clutching a bouquet. The image’s charged symbolism reflects a period of acute personal crisis. One year before the painting’s completion, her former lover Leon Trotsky was assassinated; at the same time, she was navigating a tumultuous divorce from her husband, Diego Rivera.

This work will travel to several institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and Tate Modern in London. The previous auction record for a work by a woman artist was for Georgia O’Keeffe’s Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 (1932), which fetched $44.41 million at Sotheby’s in 2014. Kahlo’s previous auction record was held by Diego y yo (1949), which sold for $34.9 million at Sotheby’s in 2021.

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Crowns (Peso Neto), 1981

Sold for $48,335,000

Sotheby’s

Featured in Jean-Michel Basquiat’s 1982 solo exhibition at Annina Nosei Gallery in New York, Crowns (Peso Neto) sold for $48.34 million at Sotheby’s on November 18th. Painted on Christmas Day in 1981, the work brings together many of Basquiat’s defining motifs at a moment when his career was accelerating.

Four heads encircle the canvas, three crowned and one ringed with thorns, amid a flurry of numbers, arrows, and inscriptions. The phrase peso neto, which translates to “net weight,” underscores the painting’s meditation on ambition and commodification, with the crown both a burden and a symbol of ascent.

After its debut, the work appeared at Documenta 7 in Kassel, Germany, in 1982. The painting passed through the hands of a London-based collector before entering the collection of Thomas Worrell, an important early supporter of Basquiat. It was later acquired by José Mugrabi in 2003 before being sold privately in 2019.

Piet Mondrian, Composition with Large Red Plane, Bluish Gray, Yellow, Black and Blue, 1922

Sold for $47,560,000

Christie’s

Piet Mondrian’s Composition with Large Red Plane, Bluish Gray, Yellow, Black and Blue (1922) sold for $47.56 million, making it the leading lot of the May auctions at Christie’s.

This work—dominated by a large red square set against a grid of smaller colored rectangles—is a canonical example of Mondrian’s mature period. The work is central to the early 20th-century De Stijl movement, which sought a universal visual language through strict geometry, primary colors, and radical abstraction. Acquired directly from Mondrian by the Dutch poet Anthony Kok, Composition with Large Red Plane, Bluish Gray, Yellow, Black and Blue was later sold to French geologist Henri-Georges Doll. It remains the last of four Mondrian paintings once owned by Kok that are held in private hands.

Mondrian’s current auction record is held by Composition No. II (1930), which sold at Sotheby’s in 2022 for $51 million.

Pablo Picasso, La Lecture (Marie-Thérèse), 1932

Sold for $45,485,000

Christie’s

Pablo Picasso’s portrait of his lover and muse Marie-Thérèse Walter, La Lecture (Marie-Thérèse) (1932), sold for $45.5 million at Christie’s on November 17th. The work was painted during the summer at Picasso’s château in Boisgeloup shortly after his landmark Paris retrospective, when Marie-Thérèse became the central figure in his art. Shown absorbed in reading, she is rendered with sculptural volume, soft pastel planes, and visible charcoal lines that convey intimacy and ease.

The painting formed part of the Robert F. and Patricia G. Ross Weiss collection sale and was acquired by the collectors in 1985 from Acquavella Galleries.

Claude Monet, Nymphéas, 1907

Sold for $45,485,000

Christie’s

Claude Monet’s Nymphéas (1907), one of the standout lots from Christie’s November 20th-century evening sale, fetched $45.48 million.

The light-dappled painting of lily pads was consigned to auction by the Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art. The museum recently announced it would close its Sakura City, Japan, location in March 2026 and will open a smaller Tokyo location in 2030.

Nymphéas is part of Monet’s revered “Water Lilies” series, which comprises some 250 paintings. Nymphéas focuses on the pond in the French Impressionist’s Giverny garden. Last year, the artist’s Nymphéas (1914–17) sold for $65.5 million at Sotheby’s in New York—among the top 10 results of 2024. Monet’s auction record was made in 2019 for Meules (1890), which sold at Sotheby’s for $110.74 million.

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David Lynch paintings to go on view at Pace’s Berlin gallery. https://ift.tt/GDxZg6L

David Lynch will be the subject of a solo exhibition at Pace Gallery Berlin in January 2026. Bringing together previously works across painting, sculpture, film, and photography, the show traces the breadth of Lynch’s art practice beyond cinema.

The show will be presented in the restored gas station space that Pace opened with Galerie Judin in January and precedes a major solo exhibition for the artist at the gallery’s Los Angeles location in fall 2026.

Lynch, who died last January, is revered as one of the most idiosyncratic filmmakers of his generation. His aesthetic has even yielded its own popular term—Lynchian—referring to ordinary places and people that slowly turn strange or nightmarish. His off-kilter, surreal films, such as Mulholland Drive and Blue Velvet, are now household names, but the filmmaker also maintained a multidisciplinary art practice. In 2025, Lynch was the most in-demand artist on Artsy.

Lynch started his creative career as an artist. He studied at the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design in Washington, D.C., before transferring to the School of the Museum of the Fine Arts, Boston. He then moved to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, where he dropped out.

The upcoming Berlin show features never-before-seen paintings in bespoke frames made by the artist. These mixed media and watercolor works feature enigmatic images, much like scenes from his films. The show will also feature three lamp sculptures and photographs taken by Lynch during his time in Berlin in 1999.

Pace began representing Lynch in 2022, but the filmmaker’s exhibition history dates back to 1967. The artist mounted major exhibitions throughout his life, including a solo show with Leo Castelli in 1989 and a traveling exhibition starting at Paris’s Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in 2007. Sperone Westwater presented his work in 2019, in an exhibition titled “Squeaky Flies in the Mud.” Pace’s first show with the artist was “Big Bongo Night” in 2022. The Berlin show will run from January 29 to March 22, 2026.

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The 10 Most In-Demand Artists on Artsy in 2025 https://ift.tt/8kmUHiS

At Artsy, we often see demand rise for artists who receive features in major publications, open high-profile institutional shows, participate in major art fairs, or hit other career milestones. These key moments lead to a surge in inquiries or an influx of interested notes from collectors to galleries on our platform. In other cases, demand builds more gradually, as collectors encounter artists’ work through curatorial conversations or sustained visibility.

Here, we share the top 10 artists who received the strongest year-over-year surges in artwork inquiries (from January to November) on Artsy in 2025.

David Lynch

Increase in inquiries: 2940%

8 ½ Suite, VIII, 2018
David Lynch
Galerie Hus

David Lynch, who passed away in January, forged one of the most distinctive sensibilities in American cinema: His surreal, disquieting worldview even gave rise to the adjective “Lynchian.” Across films including Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, and Mulholland Drive, the director infused dream logic and psychological unease into the mainstream.

Lynch’s passing spurred renewed attention in both his art and his cinematic oeuvre. Lynch sustained a rigorous, multimedia studio practice throughout his life. He, in fact, started his career as a painter, attending two art schools before studying at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and then dropping out. Lynch’s visual art mirrors the same dark, ethereal sensibilities as his films. Sperone Westwater showed his work in 2019, in an exhibition titled “Squeaky Flies in the Mud.” Pace Gallery followed with “Big Bongo Night”in 2022.

Guim Tió Zarraluki

Increase in inquiries: 1350%

Piscina, 2020
Guim Tió Zarraluki
Coleccion SOLO

Faceless figures wander Guim Tió Zarraluki’s serene, dreamlike landscape paintings. In 2010, he first drew attention for reworking fashion photography subjects into uncanny, wide-eyed portraits. Today, his paintings favor thick impasto and softened features, creating tender and disorienting scenes. Not only does Zarraluki have a rapidly growing Instagram following (with 229,000 followers), the artist has also gained traction from galleries and collectors alike. Zarraluki was featured in Alzueta Gallery’s booth at the Armory Show in September—the same month he was featured in Artsy’s Artists on Our Radar. This followed shortly after the artist presented a solo exhibition at Paris’s Ruttkowski;68 in March. The artist has also shown with Madrid’s Coleccion SOLO and Montreal’s Patel Brown.

Danny Fox

Increase in inquiries: 1210%

The Tinners, 2020
Danny Fox
Saatchi Yates

British painter Danny Fox spent his early years squatting in London’s Brixton neighborhood, working odd jobs to afford paint and brushes. In 2013, when he was 27, he presented his first solo show at Plumbline Gallery in St. Ives, England. He quickly became one of the most in-demand young British artists—perhaps buoyed this year by a Vogue feature from March. Fox’s figurative paintings feature subjects ranging from bird watchers to lounging couples rendered with brushy, expressive lines. They often include charged symbols, such as a crescent moon or a bull’s head, that appear as spiritual talismans. Fox is currently represented by Saatchi Yates in London and V1 Gallery in Copenhagen. In April, the Levinsky Gallery at the University of Plymouth presented the artist’s first institutional show in the U.K. before London’s Hannah Barry Gallery mounted Fox’s exhibition, “BIG LOVE BABY,” in October.

Amy Sherald

Increase in inquiries: 710%

The Obamas, 2018
Amy Sherald, Kehinde Wiley
Baldwin

Baltimore-based painter Amy Sherald skyrocketed to international stardom after unveiling her official portrait of Michelle Obama in 2018. She has since played a key role in expanding the visibility of Black subjects in contemporary portraiture. This year, Sherald made headlines when she canceled her solo show at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, citing concerns over censorship. The work in question, Trans Forming Liberty (2024), depicted a transgender woman posed like the Statue of Liberty. The Smithsonian was going to edit it out of the show. The traveling exhibition, “American Sublime,” was organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and was on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art this past summer. Sherald is represented by Hauser & Wirth.

Hilary Pecis

Increase in inquiries: 685%

Sharon Flowers, 2024
Hilary Pecis
David Kordansky Gallery

Sun-drenched flowers, half-eaten plates of food, and towers of books fill Hilary Pecis’s luscious, detail-rich still lifes. The artist works in a soft, naturalistic palette and uses light and color to build intimate and meticulously observed scenes inspired by her life in California. Pecis is currently presenting a solo show at Crown Point Press in San Francisco, on through January 7, 2026. In June, she also mounted “Wandering,” a solo exhibition in London with her representing gallery Timothy Taylor. She was also featured in “Dine In,” a food-centric group exhibition at Buffalo AKG Art Museum in Buffalo, New York. Pecis is also on the roster of David Kordansky Gallery. The 46-year-old painter was the subject of solo exhibitions at China’s TAG Art Museum in 2023 and the Rockefeller Center in New York in 2021.

Olga de Amaral

Increase in inquiries: 684%

Maraña gris, 1972
Olga de Amaral
Galería Duque Arango

In her nineties, Colombian artist Olga de Amaral experienced a meteoric late-career rise for her monumental wool, horsehair, and gold tapestries. These works evoke massive stone walls and glistening, suspended mosaics, among other transcendent forms. Earlier this year, Paris’s Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain staged the artist’s first European retrospective, which closed on March 16th. The now 93-year-old artist has presented solo shows at Lisson Gallery in London and New York. De Amaral was also the subject of a traveling U.S. retrospective in 2021—at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Cranbrook Art Museum—and was featured in the 60th Venice Biennale exhibition in 2024.

Wes Lang

Increase in inquiries: 682%

Set of 4: Looking Inside, Healing the World, They Just Don't Understand, Become Nothing Avenged Sevenfold Bundle , 2023
Wes Lang
Side X Side Gallery

American artist Wes Lang is known for expressionistic drawings and paintings that feature skulls, skeletal figures, angels, and handwritten declarations. Rendered in graphite, ink, and paint, these images borrow from the directness of tattoo flash and religious illustration to examine belief, mortality, and controversial American imagery, from Native American stereotypes and Confederate flags, intended to confront the underbelly of American history. The often provocative artist has collaborated with Kanye West and The Grateful Dead. He has presented solo exhibitions with Almine Rech, his representing gallery, in New York, Aspen, and Paris. His work is held in major institutional collections, including those of the Museum of Modern Art. Much of the buzz for Lang’s work has been concentrated toward the end of the year. In November, Chicago’s Anthony Gallery opened a two-person show with Lang and Eddie Martinez. At the same time, Lyon’s Galerie Masurel opened “The good you do will follow you,” a duo exhibition by Lang and Julien Jaca.

Sho Shibuya

Increase in inquiries: 646%

231228, 2023
Sho Shibuya
Unit

240215, 2024
Sho Shibuya
Unit

Brooklyn-based Japanese artist Sho Shibuya approaches painting as a daily act of marking time. Shibuya is best known for “The Sunrise from a Small Window,” an ongoing series featuring luminous color fields painted over the front page of the New York Times. These abstract paintings are inspired by the gradients of the morning sky. “My visual diary is my way of preserving time,” he told Yokogao Magazine. The year started out in the spotlight for Shibuya. The artist partnered with German airline Lufthansa to create first-class loungewear. In October, Bienvenu Steinberg & C mounted a solo exhibition for the artist, “Freedom of Speech.” In recent years, he has presented solo shows with Plus 81 Gallery in New York and Unit in London.

Dean West

Increase in inquiries: 573%

Luis (The Wrangler) #1, Boca Raton, 2021
Dean West
Dallas Collectors Club

Hotel, 2013
Dean West
Hamburg Kennedy Contemporary

Through meticulously staged, color-saturated photos, Dean West emphasizes photography’s role as an act of construction rather than documentation. The Australian artist, who now lives in the United States, draws on ideas of place and identity. In works such as Luis the Wrangler #1 (2024), he photographs a shirtless alligator wrangler in a cowboy hat, a scene that underscores how masculinity is performed. As West recently wrote on Instagram, where he has nearly 100,000 followers, “I’m interested in how we construct lifestyle—how we present ourselves.” In 2025, West has focused on expanding his “American West” series and participating in several high-profile international art fairs, including Moderne Art Fair in Paris.

Derek Fordjour

Increase in inquiries: 408%

La Classe de Danse, 2024
Derek Fordjour
David Kordansky Gallery

STRWMN, 2022
Derek Fordjour
Huh Gallery

Artsy Vanguard 2019 alum Derek Fordjour creates multimedia portraits by layering surfaces of newspaper, cardboard, and paint into richly textured compositions. His colorful, often geometric works center Black life through scenes of everyday ritual and collective experience. Fordjour’s first U.K. solo exhibition opened at Josh Lilley in London in 2019, followed by a major museum show at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis in 2020. He is represented by Petzel, which featured the artist in its Art Basel Miami Beach booth, and David Kordansky Gallery. This year started strong for Fordjour. In January, it was announced he was the recipient of the 2025 Gordon Parks Foundation Artist Fellowship. In September, Kordansky staged its second solo exhibition for the artist, “Nightsong,” in Los Angeles. Earlier this month, the artist also revealed a new massive mural, featuring two uniformed Black drum majors, on the High Line in New York.

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AIPAD’s Photography Show announces 77 exhibiting galleries for 2026 edition https://ift.tt/uvog3iA

The Photography Show, organized by AIPAD (Association of International Photography Art Dealers) has announced 77 exhibitors for its 2026 edition. The art fair will take place at the Park Avenue Armory in New York from April 22 to 26, 2026, with a VIP opening on Wednesday, April 22nd.

New exhibitors joining the fair include Ruiz-Healy Art, which has locations in New York and San Antonio, and INTHEGALLERY, which is based in Copenhagen and Mallorca, Spain. They will appear alongside returning participants such as Danziger Gallery and Atlanta’s Jackson Fine Art. This year, more than a third of participating galleries are either women-founded or women-led.

Alongside this announcement, AIPAD named American photographer Deborah Willis as the winner of its 2026 AIPAD Award. The award will be presented during the VIP day of the fair in April. Willis is best known for her scholarship on the history of photography and visual culture, with a particular focus on representations of the Black body, women, and lesser-known historical narratives. As the chair of the department of photography at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, she is also recognized for advancing research on contemporary women photographers.

“Deb’s work and influence have meaningfully altered how photography and photographers are viewed, discussed, and represented both behind and in front of the camera,” AIPAD executive director Lydia Melamed Johnson told Artsy in an exclusive statement. “Spanning scholarship, curatorial work, artistic practice, and, perhaps most importantly, her tireless support of and mentorship to the defining voices of previous generations and our present moment, her contributions to our medium, in the broadest possible sense, cannot be overstated.”

This year’s fair will also inaugurate its Focal Point sector, featuring 13 galleries with booths dedicated to solo presentations. These exhibitors include:

• Taipei’s Be Fine Art Gallery, presenting Hsu-Pin Lee.
• Los Angeles’s Duncan Miller Gallery, presenting Jacqueline Woods.
• Canadian gallery ELLEPHANT, presenting JJ Levine.
• Moscow-based Glaz Gallery, presenting Zhenya Mironov.
• Paris’s Galerie Catherine et André Hug, presenting Susan Burnstine.
• New York’s L. Parker Stephenson Photographs, presenting Ray Mortenson.
• Nashville’s LAS Contemporary, presenting Chrissy Lush.
• Milan’s M77 Gallery, presenting Nino Migliori.
• Santa Fe, New Mexico’s Obscura Gallery, presenting Paul Caponigro and John Paul Caponigro.
• English gallery Roland Belgrave Vintage Photography Ltd, presenting Baud Postma.
• New York–based gallery SoMad, presenting Yi Hsuan Lai.
• New York–based Thomas Erben Gallery, presenting Olivia Reavey.
• Los Angeles’s Central Server Works, presenting Lenard Smith.

Here is the full list of exhibitors:

• 19th Century Rare Book & Photograph Shop
• Alta
• Augusta Edwards Fine Art
• Bildhalle
• Bruce Silverstein Gallery
• Catherine Couturier Gallery
• Cavalier Galleries
• Charles Isaacs Photographs
• CLAMP
• Curatorial Gallery
• Daniel / Oliver Gallery
• Danziger Gallery
• Deborah Bell Photographs
• Echo Fine Arts
• Edwynn Houk Gallery
• Form Gallery
• Galerie Olivier Waltman
• Galerie XII
• Galerie Esther Woerdehoff
• Galerie Sophie Scheidecker | Paris, France
• Gana Art
• Gilman Contemporary
• Gitterman Gallery
• Gregory Leroy
• HackelBury Fine Art
• Hans P. Kraus Jr. Inc.
• Higher Pictures
• Holden Luntz
• Howard Greenberg Gallery
• The Hulett Collection
• IBASHO
• Ilaria Quadrani Fine Art
• IN-DEPENDANCE by IBASHO

• INTHEGALLERY
• Jackson Fine Art
• Janet Borden Inc.
• jdc Fine Art
• Keith de Lellis Gallery
• LARGE GLASS
• Leica Gallery New York
• Marshall Gallery
• Michael Hoppen
• Michael Shapiro Photographs
• Momentum
• Monroe Gallery of Photography
• Nailya Alexander Gallery
• Obscura Gallery
• Paul M. Hertzmann, Inc.
• POLKA Galerie
• Robert Klein Gallery
• Robert Koch Gallery
• Robert Mann Gallery
• Rolf Gallery
• Ruiz-Healy Art
• Scheinbaum & Russek Ltd.
• Scott Nichols Gallery
• Staley-Wise Gallery
• Stephen Bulger Gallery
• Stephen Daiter Gallery
• Throckmorton Fine Art
• Toluca Fine Art
• Vasari
• Von Lintel Gallery
• Yancey Richardson

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Artsy Buyer Trends 2025 https://ift.tt/sUQmoVW

Welcome to Artsy Buyer Trends, our research report on the themes that shaped art buying in 2025.

Drawing on analysis of user searches and purchases on Artsy—paired with signals from fashion, design, wellness, and culture—this report identifies five major themes. Together, they reveal buyer interest in introspection, as well as a desire for sensory depth and emotional grounding in a year marked by volatility.

The five trends are as follows:

• Into the Blue
• Mini Art, Major Impact
• The Tablescape Renaissance
• Back to the Land
• Deep Dive: Hockney Etchings

Across all five trends, one throughline emerges: Art buyers are seeking works that reflect how they want to feel and how they want to live. They are turning to art for stability, connection, escape, and self-expression at a time when the world feels uncertain and overstimulating.

Download the 2025 Art Buyer Trends report to read the full findings.

Here’s a quick overview of each trend.

1. Into the Blue

In 2025, art buyers gravitated to a color that psychologists have long associated with calm and tranquility: blue. Blue artworks have surged in popularity on Artsy, mirroring trends across fashion and beauty.

Key stats:

• Searches for “blue” on Artsy were up 20% year over year.
• Searches for “cobalt” on Artsy rose 131% year over year.
• Water imagery also made a splash: Searches for “ocean” on Artsy increased 33% year over year.

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2. Mini Art, Major Impact

The rise of small-sized artworks—defined as under 15.75 inches by 15.75 inches—was a defining trend of art buying in 2025. Much of this is due to small artworks’ relative affordability, ease of placement, and appeal within contemporary interior aesthetics.

Key stats:

• 40% of all purchases on Artsy in 2025 were for small artworks.
• Acquisitions tagged “miniature and small-scale paintings” increased 66% year over year.
• Searches for “small” on Artsy rose 49% year over year.

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3. The Tablescape Renaissance

Artworks featuring tables with abundant food and people eating together saw increased interest in 2025. This trend in art buying took place as culture recentered the table as both a social lifeline and a stage.

Key stats:

• Purchases of artworks tagged “food” were up 61% year over year.
• Artsy searches for “meal” rose 28% year over year.
• Searches for “dining” on Artsy rose 38% year over year.

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4. Back to the Land

Art purchases in 2025 reflected a growing cultural desire for nature as a site of restoration and escape. Artworks portraying people immersed in nature spiked in popularity, signaling that, in our contemporary imagination, landscapes are ways of visualizing ourselves getting beyond daily life.

Key stats:

• Purchases of works tagged “earth tones” were up 29% year over year.
• Search interest in related topics on Artsy also increased: “picnic” was up 208%, “outdoors” up 80%, “nature” up 30%, and “landscapes” up 19% year over year.

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5. Deep Dive: Hockney Etchings

2025 has been a landmark year for David Hockney, who has mounted museum shows everywhere from the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris to the West Bund Museum in Shanghai. On Artsy, demand rose for his print works, which are available at more attainable price points.

Key stats:

• Hockney is the third-most-searched artist on Artsy of 2025.
• Searches for “david hockney” on Artsy were up 49% year over year.

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Methodology

Artsy Buyer Trends 2025 was developed through insights from Artsy data.

All purchase data is restricted to e-commerce and auction direct purchases made directly through the Artsy platform. Percentage growth for artwork description tags was measured on a year-over-year basis from January 1st to September 17th. Artwork description tags were submitted by galleries listing works for sale on Artsy.

This report also draws on internal searches made on Artsy, with percentage growth measured on a year-over-year basis from January 1st to November 7th.

Inquiries—messages from potential buyers about works they’re interested in purchasing—are referenced once and were drawn from the period January 1 to October 28, 2025. Purchase data for small artworks was drawn for the period January 1 to October 28, 2025. David Hockney is the third-most-searched artist, as determined by data drawn from January 1 to October 28, 2025.

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Fondation Louis Vuitton will open major exhibition of Alexander Calder in 2026. https://ift.tt/yVhUXad

Fondation Louis Vuitton has announced a solo exhibition dedicated to Alexander Calder, titled “Calder. Rêver en Équilibre,” which will run from April 15 through August 16, 2026. The show will bring together 300 of the artist’s works spanning from the 1920s to the 1970s.

Calder was an American sculptor credited with inventing the mobile, a revolutionary form of kinetic sculpture that brought movement into modern art. His work bridged engineering and play through these abstract sculptures. “Calder’s innovative approach expanded the dimensions of sculpture to include time as an essential fourth dimension,” Dieter Buchhart and Anna Karina Hofbauer, guest curators of the exhibition, said in a joint statement.

“Calder. Rêver en Équilibre” celebrates the 100th anniversary of Calder’s arrival in France and marks 50 years since his death in 1976. The show will feature mobile and stable works (as the artist referred to his kinetic and static artworks, respectively), including wire portraits, paintings, drawings, and wooden sculptures. The show will also feature works by contemporaries and friends of the artist, including Jean Arp, Barbara Hepworth, Jean Hélion, Piet Mondrian, Paul Klee, and Pablo Picasso.

Among the highlights of the show will be the Cirque Calder (1931), the artist’s recreation of a circus complete with miniature animals and characters. The sculpture will be loaned to Fondation Louis Vuitton by the Whitney Museum of American Art, returning to the city where Calder originally completed the work. Elsewhere, the exhibition will spotlight several works from the artist’s “Constellation” series, some of the artist’s three-dimensional hanging mobiles.

The artworks in the show will be accompanied by 34 archival photographs taken by Henri Cartier-Bresson, André Kertész, Gordon Parks, Man Ray, Irving Penn, and Agnès Varda to offer more insight into Calder’s personal life.

The exhibition follows a period of renewed attention to Calder’s work. On September 21st, the Calder Gardens in Philadelphia opened. Shortly after, the Whitney welcomed people to ​​“High Wire: Calder’s Circus at 100” in October, celebrating the artist’s Cirque Calder.

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