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January 22 / January 22 2013 - Artcurial

The Graffiti, Street Art, Urban Art scene... whatever the name you give it, never ceases to prove its legitimacy on the market of Contemporary Art. 2013 is a good year for the movement, with among others the exhibition Keith Haring - Political Line at the Modern Art Museum of the City of Paris and the 104, or In the entrails of the Secret Palais with Lek, Sowat, Dem 189 and many others at the Palais de Tokyo. Artcurial opened the year with the first auction sale of Contemporary Urban Art, on January 22, with total sales over one million. Let's see images on this amazing sale with the interview of Arnaud Oliveux.

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Art Paris Art Fair 20133

March 28 / April 01 2013 - Nef du Grand Palais

A successful and dynamic edition that confirms Art Paris Art Fair's position as the leading event for modern and contemporary art in Paris in the spring that dares to be different

Despite the Easter holiday week-end and Siberian temperatures in the French capital, along with the economic and financial challenges facing the art market, Art Paris Art Fair brought together 144 galleries from 20 countries. It closed on Monday 1st April in an atmosphere that was both dynamic and serene. Profoundly renewed and more international than ever, the 2013 edition of the fair was successful on several counts:  Entries: This year saw 53,257 visitors to the fair, marking an 11% increase over last year with an exceptional peak of 13,847 guests for the opening night. [...]

Content: Visitors to the fair praised the quality of the presentations and what gallery owner Nathalie Obadia described as the "artistic airiness" of the fair. The geographical spread was impressive with galleries from Nantes to Sarajevo, Dubai and Ljubljana as well as the range of work with Africa represented by Revue Noire, art brut at Ritsch Fitsch and Christian Berst, Middle Eastern work at Tanit, Imane Farès and Claude Lemand, Indian artists at Hervé Perdriolle, and of course Russia, this year's guest of honour.  [...] In this respect, featuring Russia as country of honour this year turned out to be exceptional with a century of Russian creation on show. The fair turned the spotlight onto an art scene that is as yet little known. [...]

Sales: Overall, these were satisfactory. On the modern front, Galerie Claude Bernard sold some 15 pieces by Russian non-conformist Edik Steinberg worth between €5,000 and €25,000. [...] For his first time at Art Paris Art Fair, Claude Lemand did well selling 12 drawings by Dia Al Azzawi to a single collector. On the contemporary side, business was brisk at Daniel Templon, Nathalie Obadia, Paris Beijing, Galerie Particulière, Michel Soskine and Da-end. [...]

Some of the young galleries in the "Promises" section did very well, notably Vincent Sator who sold 20 works by Alexei Vassiliev and Yan Heng with prices ranging from €1,000 to €10,000. Among the nine galleries in the Artdesign section, Domeau & Pérès gallery was singled out for the IDEAT magazine prize for the "Edmond, lit de repos 2013" piece by Eric Jourdan. The gallery sold a Marc Newson bed for €21,000 as well as several of Pablo Reinoso's "Jyn & Jon" chairs costing €2,900 each.

Art Paris Art Fair 2014 will be held at Grand Palais from 27th to 30th March 2014 with China as guest of Honour.

For the best images of the fair, go to "Art Paris Live" on www.artparis.fr

Art Paris Art Fair 20133

March 28 / April 01 2013 - Nef du Grand Palais

From 28th March to 1st April 2013, ART PARIS ART FAIR brings together 140 galleries from 21 countries under the majestic glass roof of the Grand Palais. The fair presents modern and contemporary art and is confirming its identity as the art event that focusses on the art scenes of the East (Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Asia). For the first time, it has decided to invite a country as guest of honour. This year it is Russia.

A central space in the fair will be dedicated to some 10 galleries from a number of cities in Russia including, Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don and Vladivostok while some 15 European galleries will show work by Russian artists.

With around 90 artists represented, ART PARIS ART FAIR will be an opportunity to discoveror rediscover Russian art, with work made by leading talents from the diaspora of the 1920s and 1930s (such as Boris Grigoriev and Aleksandr Yakovlev), the non-conformists who opposed the Soviet power culture from 1960 to 1991 (Vladimir Andreenkov, Erik Bulatov, Igor Makarevich...) to the stars of the contemporary art scene (AES+F, Olga Chernysheva, Oleg Kulik, Boris Mikhailov, Pavel Pepperstein, Olga Kisseleva, Alexei Vassiliev...).

Also on show at the fair will be the leading figures of Russian photography such as Nikolay Bakharev and Alexander Gronsky at Grindberg Gallery and Rauf Mamedov at Lilja Zakriova Gallery.

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until December 31 2011 - Le royal Monceau

"Knowing it all and never missing a thing on Paris' cultural agenda."

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until November 30 2011 - Paris

"Knowing it all and never missing a thing on Paris' cultural agenda."