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Market

Sales, auctions, price formation, and the data behind the art trade.

The art market grew 4% and the online market fell to a 2019 low. Both are the same story.

The tenth Art Basel and UBS report puts 2025 global sales at $59.6 billion after two years of decline. Underneath the recovery, the channel that was supposed to be the future had its worst year in six.

By Martin Duch · March 17, 2026 · 3 min read

Market

A $19.4 million Basquiat and Warhol collaboration, and a first half that rewarded only the safest names

The auction houses closed a solid H1 2026. Read the results by category rather than by total and the recovery looks narrower: postwar and modern absorbed the money, and everything edgier stayed where it was.

By Martin Duch · July 16, 2026 · 3 min read