If in this period auction houses from all over the world are feeling the effects, more or less strongly, of the current signs of crisis, Sotheby’s Italy can rest without worries considering the amounts realised by its auctions of modern and contemporary art, equal in total to 25,083,080 €, the highest annual result ever in the history of Sotheby’s Italy.

CHRISTIE’S AND SOTHEBY’S OVERCOME THE WINDS OF CRISIS WITH “MADE IN ITALY” ART 
If the London auctions dedicated to contemporary art alarmed the art market due to the downturns of Sotheby’s, Phillips de Pury and Christie’s, which altogether had an average of unsold works equal to 50%, at last the economy of sales seems to have heaved a small sigh of relief with the Italian Sales.

translated by Giorgina Arcuri

On 26th May, Christie’s Milan held a unique event for Italian collectors who are passionate about modern and contemporary art.
Indeed, at Palazzo Clerici the public could attend the auctioning of works executed by artists that have somehow marked the history of Italian 20th-century art: Agostino Bonalumi, Mario Sironi, Giuseppe Capogrossi, Renato Guttuso and many more.