The Careers of Modern Artists: Evidence from Auctions of Contemporary Paintings

La relation formation/carrières artistiques : le paradoxe des mondes de l'art

“…La première ligne de partage nord/ sud conirme donc l'hypothèse de proils distincts d'artistes selon le type d'art pratiqué (Caves, 2000 ;Galenson, 2000 ;Moureau, Sagot-Duvauroux, 2010), proils qui mettent en évidence le caractère discriminant de la formation.…”

A Portrait of the Visual Arts: Meeting the Challenges of a New Era

“…As Galenson (2000) has noted, for example, artists are achieving commercial success much earlier today than they did at the turn of the 20th century. The successful ones are achieving it even earlier than their counterparts 30 or 40 years ago.…”

“…17 See Solomon, 1993;Galenson, 2000;and Passell, 1990. 18 See Passell, 1990, p. 12. Other examples of early commercial success can be found in Vogel, 1997a and Indeed, galleries and dealers often subsidized artists until demand for their work (typically five to seven years) provided sufficient income to cover these expenses.…”

“…25 For a critique of this state of affairs, see Hughes, 1989a. 26 The role of critics in supporting this dominant paradigm is discussed in Galenson, 2000. Also see Sandler, 1996.…”

“…Emerging visual artists now pass through the early steps in their careers of training and developing a body of work at a much faster pace than previous eras, cycling through the world of discourse at a higher rate. For some artists, this newly accelerated pace means much earlier financial ____________ 11 See Galenson, 2000. 12 Hughes (1984), among others, has commented on the role that speculation has played in the dramatic expansion of the arts market over the last 30 years and the importance that prior sales have had on current prices. 13 In a 1982 article (Fingleton, 1982), Forbes reported that "probably twenty and maybe thirty American artists gross more than $1 million a year (the Superstars) .…”