TY - BOOK ID - 85912115 TI - Anonymous art at auction : the reception of early Flemish paintings in the Western art market (1946-2015) PY - 2021 SN - 9789004460201 9789004450042 9004450041 9004460209 PB - Leiden Brill DB - UniCat KW - Art and history KW - History and art KW - History KW - History in art KW - Art and history. KW - Painting, Flemish. KW - Anonymous art KW - Painting KW - Consumer behavior. KW - Economic aspects. KW - Peinture KW - Art anonyme KW - Art KW - AppreĢciation. KW - Prix KW - Commerce KW - Economic relations. Trade KW - art market KW - easel paintings [paintings by form] KW - Early Netherlandish KW - anno 1900-1999 KW - anno 2000-2099 KW - Flanders KW - collecting KW - Western world KW - Marketing KW - Flemish painting KW - Painting, Flemish UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85912115 AB - "Working with a data set accounting for 13,000 auction sales results, Anne-Sophie V. Radermecker explores what contemporary buyers value when purchasing paintings of unknown or uncertain authorship, and which variables influence price formation mechanisms in this market segment. The principle finding of this book is not only that historical names matter in the art market, but so do all other alternative identification strategies that art market players use to label anonymous paintings. Indirect names, provisional names, and spatiotemporal designations function as substitutes for real names that simulate identities, create ex-post stories around the artworks offered for sale, and, consequently, reduce information asymmetry about an artist's identity, with, at time, quite unexpected effects on price"--4e de couv. ER -