I am very grateful also to Tamsin Selby of UBS for her help with the HNW collector surveys, which expanded significantly this year, providing hugely valuable regional and demographic insights for the report.

The primary fine art auction data supplier for this report was Artory, and my sincerest thanks to Nanne Dekking along with Lindsay Moroney, Anna Bews, and Chad Scira for their hard work and dedication in putting together this very complex set of data. The auction data on China is supplied by AMMA (Art Market Monitor of Artron), and I am very grateful for their continued support of this research on the Chinese auction market. Many thanks also to Xu Xiaoling and the Shanghai Culture and Research Institute for their help researching the Chinese art market.

Data from Wondeur AI on gallery, museum, and art fair exhibitions was a very valuable new addition to the report this year. My sincerest thanks also to Sophie Perceval and Olivier Berger for their help generating the data, as well as for offering their key insights on gender, artists’ careers, and other interesting perspectives.

I would like to thank the team at Artsy, especially Alexander Forbes and Simon Warren, for their continuing support of the report, allowing access to their extensive database on galleries and artists to analyze key issues in the gallery sector and helping to investigate the relationships between buyers and sellers online.

Thanks to Marek Claassen at Artfacts.net for his support and provision of data on fairs and galleries. Many thanks also to all of the art fairs that shared information for the report.

Very special thanks to Benjamin Mandel for his interesting and thorough analysis of the links between trade and the art market, which offered important context to some of the key themes in the report this year. I am very grateful also to Diana Wierbicki of Withersworldwide for her help with information and insights on US tax regulations, and to Bruno Boesch for his legal advice on European issues.

Finally, I am very grateful to Noah Horowitz and Florian Jacquier for their time and encouragement in helping to coordinate the research.

Dr. Clare McAndrew
Arts Economics