Recent evidence suggests that the artwork of an experienced artist is usually more expensive than that of a beginner. Additionally, the artwork of a man is often more expensive than that of a woman, and a painting is typically more expensive than graphics. However, this research aims to contrast the influence of the author's age and sex on the price with the influence of the artwork's material and technique. This idea is based on Roland Barthes’ famous philosophical doctrine about the death of the author, which appeared in 1968 and remains relevant today. In our article, this doctrine is tested for the art market. The research question posed is whether the author's influence dies in relation to their artwork after its creation or whether the artwork begins to live its own life without the author. To answer this question, a study was conducted comparing the impact on auction prices of the artist's biography and the characteristics of the artwork. The artist's biography inevitably determines their creativity and affects their art, while the characteristics of the artwork are not directly related to the personality of the author but are important from a consumption standpoint. Several dozen features were identified and divided into author and artwork characteristics. For author characteristics, demographic features such as sex and nationality were used, as well as biographical features such as education and migration. Artwork characteristics included size, material, technique, provenance, author's signature and frame, mentions in scientific literature, etc. By applying hedonic regression on a unique collected dataset of more than 15,000 artworks by the most expensive authors sold at world-famous auction houses such as Sotheby's and Christie's, it was determined which characteristics have the greatest influence on price and which specific features are most important.

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作者之死：艺术市场案例


最近的证据表明，经验丰富的艺术家的艺术品通常比初学者的艺术品更昂贵。此外，男性的艺术品通常比女性的艺术品更昂贵，而绘画通常比图形更昂贵。然而，本研究旨在将作者年龄和性别对价格的影响与艺术品材料和工艺的影响进行对比。这一想法基于罗兰·巴特 (Roland Barthes) 关于作者之死的著名哲学学说，该学说出现于 1968 年，至今仍然具有现实意义。在我们的文章中，这一学说在艺术市场上得到了检验。提出的研究问题是，作者对其艺术作品的影响是否在创作后消失，或者艺术作品是否开始在没有作者的情况下过自己的生活。为了回答这个问题，我们进行了一项研究，比较了艺术家的传记和艺术品的特征对拍卖价格的影响。艺术家的传记不可避免地决定了他们的创造力并影响他们的艺术，而艺术品的特征与作者的个性没有直接关系，但从消费的角度来看很重要。确定了几十个特征，并将其分为作者和艺术品特征。对于作者特征，使用了性别和国籍等人口特征，以及教育和移民等传记特征。艺术品特征包括尺寸、材料、技术、出处、作者签名和框架、科学文献中的提及等。 通过对在苏富比和佳士得等世界著名拍卖行出售的最昂贵作者的 15,000 多件艺术品的独特收集数据集应用特征回归，确定了哪些特征对价格影响最大以及哪些特定特征最重要。