[oliveux]

Dear friends ,

Next December the 15th in PARIS, an urban art sale at Artcurial' Auction House includes works by Invader, Blek, Nick Walker, Jef Aérosol, Crash, JonOne, Ronnie Cutrone, Futura 2000,.........

For further informations, please consult Artcurial's website:

www.artcurial.com

or contact Arnaud Oliveux:
[e-mail]

[incognito4art]

Nice piece

[trapnel1]

"1970-2010, 40 ans d’Art Graffiti" - some very interesting pieces for sale, including one Banksy. Pity about the exchange rate...

www.artcurial.com/fr/asp/searchresults.asp?pg=1&ps=25&st=D&sale_no=1699

[nigelbgg]

Some AMAZING pieces, if I had the cash I'd buy the lot.

[nigelbgg]

www.artcurial.com/fr/asp/fullCatalogue.asp?salelot=1699+++++252+&refno=10295297


Paper work?

[Wearology]

I am simply speechless - now where did I put that million dollars again! Everybody should study this link there is a history of street art that will probably never be seen again!

[Martin DK]

Very cool DRAN - PINOCCHIO.

[Pure Evil]

Its really good to see how they feature the whole spectrum of the history of graffiti... Its like the NE DANS LA RUE show that happened recently in Paris, a lot of it was about reverence for the history and roots of the movement.
Im glad too that DRAN, C215, EINE and Andrew McAttee are up in there too.

[scandi]

Wow! Quite a few pieces I would LOVE to have there.

[maadbeats]

Loving those early Futura pieces

[Jef Aerosol]

a few pics of the exhibition on my flickr :
www.flickr.com/photos/jefaerosol/4451975657/in/photostream

[Blind Angle]

Wow!

[aspyhole]

The Futura and Ramelzee canvases are ridiculous.

A

[jusdeep]

I'm quite surprised to see the Denning in there and that it didn't sell at Represent at end of last year.
Hopefully someone will pick up a bargain at the auction

[love]

I want that Blek le rat beggar!

[walshy]

Great sale, a whole lot of history right there

[walshy]

Mar 8, 2010 1:39:33 GMT 1 trapnel1 said:

"1970-2010, 40 ans d’Art Graffiti" - some very interesting pieces for sale, including one Banksy.

Didn't see no Banksy, do you mean Blek ?

[trapnel1]

Banksy was lot 252 - appears to have been withdrawn

[mj]

Wow what an amazing collection only parla is missing. If only I had some spare change few bargain in there, the Dondi piece is sick.

[Rsyok]

Results are up, the 1984 Futura going for 33,997 Euro. Congrats to C215 for the sale at 1700 euro (hope he got some of it)

[covertshadowops]

my friend bought the futura 1984 piece. its in the best hands you can get.

[Daniel Silk]

www.ft.com/cms/s/2/3e6677e0-3cf9-11df-bbcf-00144feabdc0.html

"The Art Market: meaty graffiti prices
Published: April 3 2010 02:17 | Last updated: April 3 2010 02:17
There is still some life left in the urban art category, judging by the solid results made in Paris last week at Artcurial, France’s third-biggest auction house. Its “graffiti and street art” sale raised €383,000 (£340,400) for 80 lots sold, with the top price going to a work by Speedy Graphito, “Mandala” (2009), which sold for €35,200 (est €20,000-€25,000). The artist had consigned the work himself, as well as a two-metre-tall sculpture, “King Size” (2009), the cover lot, which sold for an over-estimate €21,600. “Generally we don’t sell works directly from the artists, but there are exceptions in the urban art category,” says sale specialist Arnaud Oliveux. The house also scored with older works, setting a new price high for US graffiti artist Futura 2000, whose 1984 “Baby Formula” made €34,000.
These levels are a far cry from those made by Banksy, the best-known street artist. In 2008 his defaced Hirst spot painting, “Keep it Spotless” (2007), showing a maid sweeping up in front of a spot painting, made more than $1.8m (£1.2m) at the charity Red sale in New York. But, says Oliveux, “Banksy is a one-off phenomenon, and his prices don’t reflect others in this field.” But recent Banksy prices have tumbled: a version of his stencil-on-canvas “Lenin on Rollerskates” (2003) sold for £16,800 at Bonhams in London last month, while comparable pieces made almost £50,000 in 2007 and £36,000 in 2008.
“The recession has hit this category really hard,” says Bonhams’ specialist Pedro Lopez Pelegrin; the firm has ended its dedicated urban art sales and now rolls such works into its Vision 21 sales."

[manty]

That was a quick visit from Bonhams into the urban art world :-)

[Simococo]

probably the right move though.

[Simococo]

just read through the results and this auction really smashed it. The French have a fantastic appreciation of graf and street art.

[mishco]

just seen the pieces by RAMMELLZEE, that guy's a headcase if i remember right, he was on a street art documentary i watched recently.

[Prescription Art]

Speedy Graphito always sells for high prices at French auctions... €35,000 for that canvas!

[invader2009]

Great Street Art pieces at Artcurial Paris Auction the 22nd March

Shepard Fairey
Faile
Swoon
Invader
Kaws
Dran
C215
Eine
Blek
Jef Aerosol
Wk Interact

www.artcurial.com/en/asp/searchresults.asp?pg=1&ps=25&st=D&sale_no=1842+++

[Simococo]

Cool WK piece on wood and a couple of great Futuras

[Brushstrokes 75]

Anyone considering buying some Cope2 train, they are way cheaper on cope2 ebay account...

A nice LA2 canvas as well