Market Report, etc.


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Friday, February 4, 2011


$180,000 (approx), according to Art Info.

Hi there. Over on Art Info there’s a report on the Brussels Antiques and Fine Art Fair, which included a few comic art dealers who commanded some very high prices for original work by Moebius and Milton Caniff. It does seem like prices run higher in Europe overall, and based purely on my conversations with various U.S. galleries and dealers, a tremendous amount of non-hero based comic art (i.e. underground old and new) is sold to European collectors. 180K may seem like a lot in the comics racket, but it’s cheap compared to a masterpiece by a comparable contemporary artist (let’s say, for the sake of argument, Ed Ruscha. Ignore dopey headline.

Speaking of dopey: Dear Chris Arrant at Robot 6: It’s not nice to quote from my article without attribution (that is, directly swiping from an interview I did). Here’s the piece I wrote (with its own dopey headline) about one aspect of Mike Kelley’s current show at Gagosian L.A. Mike’s work couldn’t have less to do with Lichtenstein, but such is life in the dopey-verse.

UPDATE: Robot 6 updated the post appropriately.

Oh yeah, and Frank would like to point out that Dave Sim responded to Jog at length in the comments section yesterday. Check it out.

Happy Friday.

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7 Responses to “Market Report, etc.”
  1. Layne says:
    February 4, 2011 at 11:44 am

    For anyone confused about the Robot 6 thing, Arrant’s post originally linked only to the Gagosian and Kelly’s websites. In all fairness, it’s not immediately clear that the “common images of the city of the future,” line is from Nadel’s piece, but then again, I woke up twenty minutes ago and have only had two cigarettes so my brain is running at less than optimal speed.

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  2. Frank Santoro says:
    February 4, 2011 at 11:57 am

    Shit, are we crash our server with another Internet scandal?

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  3. Lou Copeland says:
    February 4, 2011 at 4:50 pm

    Dan,

    Any chance of Picturebox importing the Transe Forme catalog?

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    • Dan Nadel says:
      February 4, 2011 at 6:13 pm

      I tried, but it is not being offered wholesale, at least not outside of France, as far as I know. It’s worth seeking out though — you buy it direct from the Foundation Cartier.

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  4. Chris Arrant says:
    February 4, 2011 at 5:13 pm

    Thanks for calling me on this, Dan. Your article on ForYourArt brought it to our attention, but when I used a quote from your interview it wasn’t attributed. My colleague Sean T. Collins caught this when you brought it up and gave proper attribution. My apologies.

    I would argue that Lichenstein and Kelley share the common thread of being inspired by American comic books. For the casual public, I think that common thread would unite them — especially in the fine art world of museums and galleries.

    But back to my main point — thanks for reading and correcting me.

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