braz Pawła Kowalewskiego "Mon Cheri Bolsheviq 2005" - obraz P. Kowalewski / Adam Białas

Paweł Kowalewski, an artist who predicted the future

Art is a channel of contact between the past, present and future. It helps us to deal with essential matters for all human life and relate to our existence. By manifesting what is most important, art predicts what our future lives will bring. Artists often direct the future by seeing patterns before they even form…

A record has been broken on the Polish art market after a Rubens’ painting was sold for 14.4 million zlotys / photo: Adam Białas

Rubens’ painting sale smashes Polish art market records

A record has been broken on the Polish art market after a Rubens’ painting was sold for 14.4 million zlotys. On March 17, the Desa Auction House in Warsaw auctioned the 17th-century “Portrait of a Lady” by Peter Paul Rubens. It is the first sale of this class of work on the Polish market.  The…

Polish art market bucks global downturn

Polish art market bucks global downturn

Poland is expected to record the highest sales of art in its history, for another year in a row, bucking the global market trend. In 2020 the international art market fell due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic to around EUR 43.2 billion, 22% down year-on-year. Experts estimate that in 2020 the turnover on…