Mohsen Vaziri-Moghaddam, an Iranian painter, sculptor, lecturer, and art writer, was born in Behbahan in 1925 and passed away in Rome 94 years later. Throughout his career, he conducted various experiments using different materials and media. However, Vaziri-Moghaddam is most renowned for his sand paintings and articulated sculptures. His works have been featured in auctions since 2...

Art can be considered a kind of property and capital due to some capacities. Buying art brings financial returns and, like other traditional assets, increases in value over time. Art can be bought and sold because a separate market has been created for it. In the meantime, buying works from prominent artists has shown a positive return and has attracted investors to create diversity...

Abstract painting is one of art trends in 2023 and has experienced growing in value in the art market in last few years. According to Artsy's 2023 survey, 44% of respondents cited "abstract art" as the most important genre of contemporary art in their business.

In the system of art economic, galleries are part of the primary market, although they also sell works privately through their networks in the secondary market. Gallery owners in Iran have gone beyond these and included online auctions to art calls in their work plans. This multilateralism is evident in the activities of many Iranian gallery owners, because the burden of promoting v...

Art economics as a discipline deal with different issues and topics, with the most important one being art and the market relations. This relationship is the basis for the creation of university courses that partly deal with the economic or material analysis of artistic activities, or study culture and art by applying the economical method. In this short essay, an attempt has been m...

Auction houses are where wealthy collectors and art dealers gather and compete for the best of the art world. These actors tend to change the atmosphere of this world with their performance; Auctioneers are also interested in seeing the boom of the market with successful sales. Although, watching these events, the most important of which are the evening auctions, creates a certain e...

When the Art Hall team was looking for the Iranian artworks' sales records for art appraisal, felt the void of an authoritative art reference. That's why Artchart was born in 2019. The purpose of launching Artchart was to create a database of the Iranian art market that can be used as a reference for a wide range of people, from artists to art collectors. Now Artchart has collected...

Iranian painting can be divided into three general categories: traditional miniature painting from Mani to the end of Safavid period, painting from the Qajar and Pahlavi periods, and contemporary miniature painting. In the meantime, the miniature painting of the Qajar and Pahlavi period, of which Hossein Behzad is an example of its artists, has received less attention; But the works...

Shervin Taheri can be considered as a critic and researcher with a sharp critical view of visual art. He has a questioning approach towards the activists of the visual field and specifically the gallery owners and the cycle of the art economy. Considering that the art market is separate from the art field, Taheri sees the recent crisis as a good opportunity for galleries to rethink....