After the extraordinary performance of its Post-War & Contemporary Art sale in mid-November, Christie’s started its sales of Contemporary Asian art on 23 November in Hong Kong. The same artistic period, but a different cultural field and a different marketplace… and yet almost a new record: USD 102 million
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At the end of the first half of 2010, global auction revenue from fine art amounted to €2.9 billion. This figure is indeed €800m short of the peak of the first semester of 2007 (€3.7billion), but it is up €1.2 billion versus first semester 2009.