The works of the 60's were the most popular on the art market

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According to research Art Market Monitor.

Studies indicate that the art market, presents the Art Market Monitor, works created in the 1960's, become the most popular on the market of contemporary art. This is not surprising, if we take into account that the 1960s were the years of the flourishing of art, Andy Warhol, Mark Rothko, Roy Lichtenstein and Yves Klein.
At the same time in these years continued to operate successfully and artists such as Alberto Giacometti and Pablo Picasso.

Experts have studied the data on 1000 of the most expensive works for each year, sold between 2000 and 2014 years. Presents chart shows the market share of modern art, attributable to works created in the 1960s, shows that this share, excluding the crisis years of 2008 and 2009, is steadily increasing.

A similar pattern shows and schedules of total sales, and average prices for the work of the 1960s, sold on the art market: in 2000, the average price for this kind of work was a little more than $1 million, in the past 2014-nearly $8 million
According to the study authors, this steady increase is due to the fact that the art of the 1960s is already at a fairly remote time interval, in order to understand its true value, and at the same time is still in the living memory of many collectors.

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