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Weltkunst: Artists’ Estates
“An Artist’s Estate is not for the museum. It belongs in the art market to stay alive.”
NZZ: Never Die – Artists’ Estates, the big chance
Artists estates have become a major issue in the art market. More and more galleries take on estates in their programme.
Artnet: The Emotional Business of Managing an Artist’s Estate
The afterlife of an artist exists in their work. But even a world-class late artist’s reputation can suffer badly from a mismanaged estate: lack of transparency and a definitive catalog raisonné, or in some cases, inaccessible archives, or squabbling heirs can tarnish an artist’s legacy, have a negative effect on their market, and halt academic research on their work.
The Spectator: The squalid afterlife of artists’ estates
Legacies are usually controlled by squabbling heirs, opportunist collectors and vengeful harpies. Stephen Bayley meets the German lawyer trying to civilise the process.
Elephant Magazine: Death – Just Another Phase of an Artist’s Career
More needs to be said and written about what happens when artists die. Not that the subject is entirely neglected in academic circles: a friend of mine is five years into researching her PhD on the causes of mortality in Modernist sculptors, while a weighty tome investigating the burial practices of Abstract Expressionists in Arizona & New Mexico, 1956–59, dropped through the Elephant letterbox just last week.
The Art newspaper: HOW TO GIVE ARTISTS LIFE AFTER DEATH
A new book advises executors and heirs that managing artists’ estates can be a painful and exacting process
Financial Times Weekend: How an artist’s legacy became big business
From Mark Rothko to Henry Moore, the stakes are high in an inflated art market
handelsblatt: Artists’ Estates – the script for posthumous glory
If an artist is not known until right after his death, he owes it to his heirs. But whoever takes up such a legacy, needs a long-term strategy. The predominant task: keep the work alive.
Artsy Magazine: What Artists Should Do to Protect Their Legacies
Art often makes viewers ponder their mortality. Just think of the memento mori, a Latin phrase that translates directly to “remember you must die” and refers to symbols of death in art, most typically skulls (hey, no one said it should be subtle). And yet artists, as much as viewers, must think about what happens after they die: how their work will be seen, treated, and exhibited posthumously.
DiePresse.com: ‘Don’t throw anything away’
Drafts, notes, trash: A handbook shows how to manage an artist estate.