Urban Art Association

The whole print market is about to do a correction very soon. Unless it's a Banksy, Hirst, Kaws or some big blue chip artist forget it for prints. Maybe some random artist will do well in their small fan groups but overall the art world pumped out way too many prints over the past few years. Also retail prices and editions numbers have doubled on each print recently as well.

Every artist is now selling a thousand dollar print, or more, every month while their originals are not doing well at all. This is a scam the galleries and artists are all doing right now with prints. Complexcon and these events exploited the print market; most people going to these events do not have the spending money for originals but have money for prints.

Now the market is oversaturated and I could see a massive drop in print prices coming very, very soon. Do remember, if you sell with an auction house the final price isn't want you get. You have to take away the Buyers Premium and fees to the auction house. If you look the print results in recent auctions; for most artist - not the blue chips - they have not done very well at all. People are now losing money on a lot of prints.

Harland Miller I wonder a lot about. His recent show did very poorly in Hong Kong and his original for most part don't sell very well. A few recently did ok in charity auctions but over all not so great. But for a guy who doesn't even reach a $1,000,000 in auction to charge $17k for prints is highway robbery. I love his work and the prints are stunning but it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. His print market is much much stronger in numbers than his originals and that's extremely strange. Manifold and Whitecube did a excellent job fooling a lot of people in spending big big bucks on prints when at the time they could have just got originals for not much more.

Unless Harland Miller somehow takes off, which in Asia this year was major flop, then his print price, like most other artist, simply don't make sense. A correction in this market should help fix all this on most artists. I think it would be good overall for the market if a correction came soon.

It is more complex than that.

Partly depends on the artist and where their markets are.

At the moment people are following the money. Once the margins are gone, collectors and flippers will drop the artist super fast.

In general, people look to the axes of power NY/ldn for guidance. If there is no confidence, it has a downstream effect.

If developed nations aren't spending, don't expect developing nations to pick up the slack.

Prices for editions are becoming bonkers.

"A correction in this market should help fix all this on most artists. I think it would be good overall for the market if a correction came soon."

Sooner than you might think. People are loosing the run of themselves with 10/20k prints. 
Fine if you have cash to burn or you really like the image/artist. 

There are super originals you can buy with 10/20k even from well known artists.

Correction in the market??.. never going to happen in the real art world.

Martin whatson and the other z list artists that dominate this forum may go up , down or side ways but the big boys? No chance.

Millers prices are discussed every other day on here and they keep on rising.. This says so much more about the ‘opinions’ on here spouted as fact.

Very few on here with any clue on the real art market.

I think far better advice would be to ignore everything you say! 😂

Wealth is irrelevant. You just offer terrible advice 😂

Had you bought this at cost (£2000ish) 1-2 years ago,?you could now sell it for around £20000.. terrible investment... stick to bitcoin I say 😂

It’s a bloody abstract painting, not a real life! You pick up on that and ignore the lack of nose and ears! 😂😂

Leave it to the pros mate seriously..,

It's like Donald Duck.

Walks around without pants all day.
But when he goes swimming he wears swimming pants !!

Interesting that you think the HM show in Asia was a “flop” as you put it. Where are you getting your information? The reality is the majority of the show was sold on opening.

I’ve seen a lot of Yin-Yangs filtering through the aftermarket over the last week...

Surely Murakami has the most works for sale

Ok so toys don't count just prints

Ok now this will be interesting. I think Kaws falls off of the list here. But Shep is king by far. I also agree with brainwash. eBay has always been his second home.