The ultimate reference on the global art market – now available as a newly revised six-volume box set.The art market is undergoing a transformation: Digitalization, new market structures, and the evolving role of museums and critics have profoundly changed the art world. Dirk Boll, a renowned expert with 25 years of experience, presents an in-depth look into the mechanisms of the international art trade in this comprehensive six-volume standard work

Record prices and substantial profits have been and still are being achieved on the art market. Yet anyone who wants to get involved needs to be informed: what distinguishes the English type of auction from one in the Netherlands? What differentiates a vintage from a period, modern, or estate print? Dirk Boll, managing director of Christie's in Zurich, explains this and other technical terms while providing us with insight into the rapidly changing art market: the increasingly symbiotic re...

Procurement analysis, sales planning, customer orientation, brand management—the art market is changing more rapidly than ever before. The price that a work of art commands influences its place in the art-historical canon. Auction houses have become dominant avenues of distribution, as have art fairs, galleries, and art dealers. Even today the ritual dramaturgy of the auction resembles an archaic competition, which can leave participants speechless and captivate bystanders. At the center o...