Based in part on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universite libre de Bruxelles, 2019, under the title: La valeur marchande du nom d'artiste : une etude empirique sur le marche de la peinture flamande (1946-2015). Includes bibliographical references (pages [279]-314) and index.
Summary:
"Working with a data set accounting for 13,000 auction sales results, Anne-Sophie V. Radermecker explores what contemporary buyers value when purchasing paintings of unknown or uncertain authorship, and which variables influence price formation mechanisms in this market segment. The principle finding of this book is not only that historical names matter in the art market, but so do all other alternative identification strategies that art market players use to label anonymous paintings. Indirect names, provisional names, and spatiotemporal designations function as substitutes for real names that simulate identities, create ex-post stories around the artworks offered for sale, and, consequently, reduce information asymmetry about an artist's identity, with, at time, quite unexpected effects on price"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Studies in the history of collecting & art markets ; volume 11
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