Artists (20)
Artworks (20)
Auction Houses (20)
Auctions (20)
Post-War & Contemporary Art Online
New York
18 July 2025
$10,000
-
$15,000
Sell Estimate
Modern & Contemporary Art, Design
Stuttgart
16 July 2025
€20,000
23,810 USD
-
€30,000
35,714 USD
Sell Estimate
Prints, Illustrated Books and Multiples
Paris
11 July 2025
€1,200
1,395 USD
-
€1,600
1,860 USD
Sell Estimate
Modern & Contemporary Paintings, 20th Century Art
Paris
10 July 2025
€2,600
3,023 USD
-
€3,400
3,953 USD
Sell Estimate
Prints & Multiples
London
9 July 2025
£1,400
1,944 USD
-
£2,000
2,778 USD
Sell Estimate
Middle East / 20th Century Art / n°21
Paris
6 July 2025
€720,750
838,081 USD
-
€1,018,700
1,184,535 USD
Sell Estimate
Modern & Contemporary Art Online
London
3 July 2025
Total Sales
£0
0 USD
Modern & Contemporary Art Online
New York
2 July 2025
Total Sales
$0
Modern & Contemporary Art
Milan
2 July 2025
Total Sales
€0
0 USD
Photography
Milan
1 July 2025
Total Sales
€0
0 USD
Small Works by Great Orientalist Masters
Paris
28 June 2025
Total Sales
€0
0 USD
Post-War & Contemporary
Zurich
26 June 2025
Total Sales
Fr.46,000
57,450 USD
Modern & Contemporary Art: Evening & Day Sale
London
26 June 2025
Total Sales
£130,810
181,681 USD
Modern & Contemporary Art
ABasel
25 June 2025
Total Sales
Fr.8,892
11,060 USD
Prints & Multiples
London
25 June 2025
Total Sales
£0
0 USD
Urban & Contemporary Art
London
25 June 2025
Total Sales
£1,200
1,644 USD
Contemporary Day
London
25 June 2025
Total Sales
£0
0 USD
Summer Finds: Fine Art & Antiques
Dallas
25 June 2025
Total Sales
$4,300
20th and 21st Century Fine Art
Alexandria
24 June 2025
Total Sales
$0
Prints, Works on Paper, Topographies...
Paris
23 June 2025
Total Sales
€0
0 USD
Galleries (20)
Museums (20)
Exhibitions (20)
A Retrospective Marcos Grigorian
6 December - 12 January 2025
Mohsen Vaziri Moghaddam "100 Years"
Bandar Anzali
30 August - 13 September 2024
Mohsen Vaziri Moghaddam "100 Years"
Shiraaz
23 August - 4 September 2024
Mohsen Vaziri Moghaddam "100 Years"
Mashhad
16 August - 23 August 2024
Mohsen Vaziri Moghaddam "100 Years"
Kashan
18 October - 1 November 2024
Mohsen Vaziri Moghaddam "100 Years"
Tabriz
20 September - 27 September 2024
Mohsen Vaziri Moghaddam "100 Years"
Rasht
30 August - 13 September 2024
Mohsen Vaziri Moghaddam "100 Years"
Bojnurd
30 August - 13 September 2024
Mohsen Vaziri Moghaddam "100 Years"
Kerman
23 August - 6 September 2024
Mohsen Vaziri Moghaddam "100 Years"
Sanandaj
4 October - 11 October 2024
Portrait of Mt. Damavand
Tehran
31 January - 11 February 2025
Communications
Tehran
31 January - 9 February 2025
Visual System
Tehran
31 January - 17 February 2025
The Observer and Archive of Memory
Dubai
5 February 2025
The 13th Art Expo of Several Generations of Iranian Contemporary Artists
Tehran
7 February - 23 February 2025
Mostafa Dashti Artworks
Tehran
31 January - 14 February 2025
Modern and Contemporary Collector
Tehran
7 February - 16 February 2025
Art Fairs (20)
TEER ART 2019
Tehran
25 June - 28 June 2019
2020 Teer Art
Tehran
26 June - 7 July 2020
Hong Kong 2022
Hong Kong
27 May - 29 May 2022
Art Basel Miami Beach 2021
Miami
30 November - 4 December 2021
OVR: Portals’
ABasel
16 June - 19 June 2021
OVR: Pioneers’
ABasel
24 March - 27 March 2021
Abu Dhabi Art 2021
Abu Dhabi
17 November - 21 November 2021
Art Dubai 2022
Dubai
9 March - 13 March 2022
IFPDA Fair Spring 2022 | Online Edition
New York
9 March - 16 March 2022
Armenia 2022
Yerevan
27 May - 30 June 2022
Tefaf Maastricht
Maastricht
25 June - 30 June 2022
Liste 2022
ABasel
13 June - 19 June 2022
VOLTA Basel 2022
ABasel
13 June - 19 June 2022
JINGART 2022
Beijing
30 June - 30 July 2022
Glasgow Contemporary 2022
Glasgow
27 May - 29 June 2022
Arco Lisboa 2022
Lisbon
19 May - 22 May 2022
Articles (20)
Following the 2009 financial crisis and the subsequent phase of global economic recovery, the art market also experienced a renewed momentum and significant growth. This widespread transformation has intensified the demand for specialized and protective services within the art sector, including art insurance.Art insurance is a specialized financial coverage designed to support colle...
Iran’s Art Scene Amid a 12-Day War: Reflections on the European Art Market Experience During World War II
30 June 2025
During the 12-day conflict between Iran and Israel in June 2025, artistic activities within Iran were temporarily suspended and gradually resumed, while the international presence of Iranian artists continued uninterrupted. Historical evidence from the World War II era suggests that in times of crisis, art can serve as a temporary safe haven for capital. However, such wartime booms...
Modern and Contemporary Middle Eastern Art Auctions in Spring 2025: From Tehran to London
28 May 2025
In Spring 2025, three dedicated auctions focusing on Modern and Contemporary Middle Eastern art were held alongside the 23rd edition of the Tehran Auction. Altogether, these events generated a total sales volume of approximately $9.6 million. Among the Middle Eastern sales, Lebanese artists led the charts, while the Tehran Auction alone accounted for nearly $2.2 million in sales of...
Artchart's 1403 SH (March 2024–2025) report offers a comprehensive analysis of the Iranian art market, highlighting key trends and developments over the past decade. It covers auction house activity, top-selling cities, leading Iranian artists, high-value artworks, and the most active galleries and urban centers across the country.Download the full report from the attachment to expl...
Artchart Report on Iranian Art Collectors and Buyers
25 March 2025
Artchart, a data-mining platform for the Iranian art market, has analyzed economic data since 2019. Since 2022, it has published annual reports on Iran’s art market and, in 2024, expanded to regional analyses. In 2025, Artchart further broadened its scope by examining the role and behavior of key players in Iran’s art scene.Its first report on Iranian art collectors and buyers explo...
The Global Art Market: From Crisis to a New Opportunity
16 March 2025
Over the past two years, the global art market has faced significant challenges and a notable downturn. According to recent reports, total auction sales at major houses such as Sotheby’s, Christie’s, and Phillips saw a sharp decline in 2024, continuing the downward trend from 2023.In response, the art market has been exploring new strategies to counteract these losses. One promising...
Auction houses are where wealthy collectors and art dealers gather and compete for the best of the art world. These actors tend to change the atmosphere of this world with their performance; Auctioneers are also interested in seeing the boom of the market with successful sales. Although, watching these events, the most important of which are the evening auctions, creates a certain e...
The 22nd Tehran Auction Report: The First Auction of Modern, Classic, and Traditional Iranian Art
18 February 2025
The 22nd edition of Tehran Auction, focusing on modern, classic, and traditional Iranian art, was held on the evening of February 15, 2025, at the Parsian Azadi Hotel in Tehran. The auction was conducted by Shahriar Rabbani, an Iranian presenter and actor. In this edition, 85% of the presented artworks (84 out of 99) were sold, generating a total of $2.6 million. A work by Reza Abba...
The Islamic and Neo-Traditional Art Market from Its Origins to the Present: A Look at the Statistics and Figures
3 February 2025
The Islamic art market emerged in the early 20th century and expanded through independent dealers in Paris, London, and New York. Many of these dealers, who were also collectors, imported valuable artworks directly from Iran, Egypt, and other regions. The secondary market for Islamic art matured by the 1920s, coinciding with the enforcement of restrictions on the export of historica...
B Gallery officially opened on December 13, 2024, in Tehran with the exhibition "Landscape: Plateau," led by Saleh Beheshti. The exhibition features over 70 works by renowned artists such as Kamal-ol-Molk, Ali Akbar Sanati, Sohrab Sepehri, Abolghasem Saeedi, Marcos Grigorian, Mohsen Vaziri Moghaddam, Parvaneh Etemadi, Farideh Lashai, Pariyoush Ganji, as well as pieces by younger gen...
What Collectors Need to Know About VIP Days at Art Fairs
12 January 2025
VIP Days at Art Fairs Have Their Own Rituals and Traditions: VIP guests are invited not only to view artworks but also to attend more exclusive parties and savor a variety of unique culinary experiences. These occasions offer them the chance to examine artworks in a more private setting, socialize with other attendees, and perhaps gain early access to insider information. Additional...
If Marcos Grigorian were alive, he would have celebrated his 100th birthday this December. An artist who was not only a painter but also a gallery owner, collector, film actor, and notably, the founder of the first Tehran Biennale. Marcos Grigorian's influence on Iranian art is such that, 18 years after his passing, an exhibition titled "Marcos Grigorian: A Retrospective" has been o...
In this conversation, Mohammad Reza Moridi, an art researcher and faculty member at Tehran University of Art, discusses the challenges and research related to the Iranian art market with journalist Hossein Ganji. Moridi explores the historical taboos surrounding the art market and the evolving discourse in this field, highlighting the importance of interdisciplinary research in the...
The Most Expensive Iranian Artworks Sold in 2024 Auctions
24 December 2024
This article presents an overview of the ten highest-priced Iranian artworks sold at auction in 2024. The featured works are by six renowned artists: Ali Banisadr, Sohrab Sepehri, Bahman Mohasses, Mehdi Qadyanloo, Hossein Zenderoudi, and Aydin Aghdashloo. All of these artworks are paintings and were sold exclusively through three prestigious auction houses—Christie's, Sotheby's, and...
A Look at the Psychology of Collecting Artworks: Is It Motivated by Financial Profit or Emotional Connection?
8 December 2024
Art collecting, when examined through the lens of psychology, can be likened to walking a fine line. On one hand, it is viewed as a positive activity dedicated to the preservation and safeguarding of historical, cultural, and artistic artifacts. On the other hand, it is sometimes perceived as a purely economic endeavor aimed at profit-making, or even, in some cases, as an addictive...
Pricing Artworks: Science or Emotion?
30 November 2024
The price of an artwork is influenced by a complex interplay of factors that include supply and demand, the artist's career stage, medium, provenance, market trends, and emotional value. The primary art market, where artworks are sold for the first time, relies heavily on galleries to set prices based on reputation, education, and quality. Meanwhile, the secondary market, involving...
The October and November 2024 modern and contemporary Middle Eastern art auctions demonstrated significant achievements by artists from across the region. Held in Paris and London by Sotheby’s, Christie’s, Bonhams, and Millon, the six auctions featured 438 works by 235 artists, generating total sales of $13.14 million. Egyptian and Iranian artists led the market in terms of volume a...
I have always kept myself sort of isolate from distraction
24 November 2024
At a talk accompanying her painting exhibition for the opening of Pace Gallery’s new branch in Japan, Maisha Mohammadi discussed her transition from neuroscience to art, her creative process, and how she embedded a wish for her husband into one of her works.
Art auctions in the first half of 2024 did not perform well, with one report describing this spring as the worst auction season in a century. Now, Christie’s and Sotheby’s are turning their focus to single-owner collections, hoping for better results in the November auctions in New York.
How are art fairs strangling galleries?
3 November 2024
"The financial burden of participating in prominent art fairs such as Art Basel or Frieze poses a significant challenge for small galleries and emerging artists, particularly in recent months as the art market has been grappling with a crisis. In this discussion, Magnus Resch raises critical questions: How many more galleries can continue to operate under such difficult market condi...