Jean-Michel Basquiat
is the artist whose work has appreciated the most over the last 35 years, going from 30,000 euros (given that takes into account the average value) in 1986 to 13 million euros in 2021. This is revealed by the long published analysis in the special issue for the 35th anniversary of Milano Finanza, which traces an excursus of the art market starting from the early 1980s, with particular attention to the best 15 performances recorded in the period.
In second position, after the icon of underground culture discovered by the gallery owner Emilio Mazzoli, who died of an overdose at the age of 28, is the American artist
Jeff Koons
: the average value of his work has been revalued by 25,614%, from 35,000 to 9,000,000 euros. Koons, writes Milano Finanza, "is the other side of the coin with respect to Basquiat. If the former is the expression of a primary, deliberately unsightly sign coming from the slums, Koons makes the banality of everyday life sparkling". In third place, with a valuation that has risen from 70,000 to 16,000,000 million euros,
Gerhard Richter
, the 89-year-old German painter to whom London, Berlin and Paris have dedicated a great retrospective, with surprising public and critical success, in the occasion of the eightieth birthday.
The investigation, which is entitled "From bots to robots", reveals that the first of the Italians is
Piero Manzoni
, famous among others for his "Artist's Shit", from 1961, whose work has had a revaluation of 89,650%, from 40,000 to 3,500,000 euros.
The special edition of the newspaper, in 288 pages, collects the testimonies of the evolution of Italian and international finance, of the technological and political revolution, of the expectations for the near and distant future of 51 Italian and international protagonists as well as various analyzes and rankings ( investment tools, bank transformation, The Future of Everything, created with The Wall Street Journal, ...).
Manzoni, in fifth position, comes after the eclectic symbol of Pop Art,
Andy Warhol
, whose average value has gone from 40,000 to 6,000,000 euros; after the Italian artist, in sixth place,is situated
David Hockney
, British painter, draftsman, engraver, photographer and set designer, whose artistic expression has increased from 50,000 to 3,500,000 million euros (+ 6,900%).
Following a triptych of world-renowned Italian artists,
Michelangelo Pistoletto
(7th),
Alighiero Boetti
(8th) and
Lucio Fontana
(9 °).
In the case of the artist from Biella (Pistoletto) and the Turin artist Boetti, there was an increase in value of the same percentage (+ 6,566%) passing, respectively, from 30,000 to 2,000,000 euros, and from 12,000 to 800,000 euros.
As for Fontana, who said of his works "The hole is the beginning of a sculpture in space. Mine are not paintings, they are concepts of art", the increase in average value was equal to 5,900% (from 50,000 to 3,000,000 euros).
In tenth position in the special ranking, the American painter
Cy Twombly
, whose prices since 1986, the year of publication of the first issue of Milano Finanza, have risen from 90,000 to 4,000,000 euros.
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