US & European Art Market Confidence Survey

January 2009   (16 pages)

The ArtTactic US & European Contemporary Art Market Confidence Indicator for December 2008 has dropped to its lowest level since it was launched in May 2005.  The ArtTactic Art Market Confidence Indicator has dropped to 10.5 from 56 - a 81% drop since May 2008.

ArtTactic launches Survival Rating to assess the long-term impact of the art market downturn on individual artists’ careers.

Artists Confidence Indicators & Survival Ratings included in the report:

Contemporary Artists: Andreas Gursky, Bill Viola, Cindy Sherman, Damien Hirst, Elisabeth Peyton, Franz Ackermann, Glenn Brown, Jake & Dinos Chapmans, Jeff Koons, Jeff Wall, Kai Althoff, Luc Tuymans, Marlene Dumas, Matthew Barney, Maurizio Cattelan, Mike Kelley, Neo Rauch, Olafur Eliasson, Paul McCarthy, Peter Doig, Richard Prince, Rosemarie Trockel, Takashi Murakami, William Kentridge, John Baldessari, David Salle, Fischli & Weiss, Cecily Brown, George Condo, Franz West, Gerhard Richter, Gilbert & George, Sol Le Witt, Dan Flavin, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Rauschenberg, Luican Freud, Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Piero Manzoni, Cy Twombly, Yves Klein, Donald Judd, Anselm Kiefer, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Tom Wesselmann, Joan Mitchell, Roy Lichtenstein, Philip Guston, Robert Smithson, Francis Bacon, John Chamberlain, Clyfford Still, Andy Warhol, Hans Hofmann, Claes Oldenburg, Joseph Buys, Alexander Calder, Lee Krasner, Jean Dubuffet, George Segal, Robert Indiana