Manipulating Value: How The Art Market Sells Illusion

https://blog.thefineartblog.com/2025/05/manufacturing-value-how-art-market.html
Alice Baber: For decades Alice Baber paintings routinely sold at public auctions for less than $3,000; Alice Baber's public auction record now stands at nearly $700,000 at Sotheby's NY, although recent prices hover around 10% of Baber's world record auction price. That's after a series of Alice Baber paintings suddenly fetched six figure record prices in 2022 and 2023 at John Moran Auctioneers, a third tier California auction firm established in 1969.