Research Catalog

Title

Anonymous art at auction : the reception of early Flemish paintings in the Western art market (1946-2015) / by Anne-Sophie V. Radermecker.

Author

Radermecker, Anne-Sophie,

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]

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Description

xvii, 322 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.

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"--

Series Statement

Studies in the history of collecting & art markets, 2352-0485 ; volume 11

Uniform Title

Studies in the history of collecting & art markets ; 11.

Subject

• Anonymous art > Flanders
• Anonymous art
• Consumer behavior
• Europe > Flanders
• Painting > Economic aspects
• Painting, Flemish

Note

• Based in part on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Université libre de Bruxelles, 2019, under the title: La valeur marchande du nom d'artiste : une étude empirique sur le marché de la peinture flamande (1946-2015).

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [279]-314) and index.

ISBN

• 9789004450042
• 9004450041
• 9789004460201 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2021004807

OCLC

• on1228030499
• 1228030499

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries