- 'Old Masters' … artists born up until 1760
- '19th century' ... artists born from 1760 to 1860
- 'Modern' … artists born from 1860 to 1920
- 'Post-War' … artists born between 1920 and 1945
- 'Contemporary' … artists born after 1945
As time advances, the period we refer to as 'Contemporary Art' is getting longer. It now covers artists as diverse as
According to thierry Ehrmann, Artprice's founder and CEO of
In art, 'Contemporary' doesn't mean 'alive today'...
How should we label the œuvres of
Perhaps we should see Contemporary art quite simply as art that has not yet become perfectly established. That's the fundamental difference between
This distinction remains ambiguous for certain artists. Look at Jeff Koons – there is a good chance today his work will be seen as having singularly marked the latter decades of the 20th century and his Rabbit (1986) sculpture is clearly already considered a kind of 'classic'. However, his creations are still causing serious controversy and his approach to art has not yet been fully accepted. The recent Appeal Court ruling that Koons plagiarized the work of a French photographer in his work Naked (1988) is just the latest in a series of obstacles the American artist has faced.
Our birth-year analysis (based on 2019 results) throws up three exceptional dates... 1955, 1960 and 1974.
Born on the
With an annual auction total of
Curiously, the new stars of Street Art, Kaws and Banksy, were both born in 1974, on either side of the Atlantic… Kaws in
So, despite its lack of flexibility and its limitations, the historical classification adopted by Artprice remains coherent with the auction results recorded in 2019 (filtered by birth-year). If a new start date were to be chosen for the 'Contemporary' category, it could be argued that the year 1965 would be a logical separation date. However, the continuing market volatility on works by several major artists born during the 20 years prior to 1965 – Albert Oehlen (b. 1954),
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