PARIS, Aug. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — As announced in Artmarket.com’s Q2 2026 press release published on August 13, 2026, under the title “Artmarket.com: Q2 2026 Growth — From Progressive Transition to Artprice’s ‘AI-FIRST’ Mutation,” Thierry Ehrmann, founder and CEO of Artmarket.com, and his family said they reaffirm their complete confidence in the future of Artprice by Artmarket.com, described as the global leader in Art Market information, and in the sustained growth of its operations. This momentum is driven in particular by substantial investments committed to developing Artprice by Artmarket.com’s proprietary vertical AI solutions, “Intuitive Art Market ©” and “Blind Spot ©.”

The conviction of the Ehrmann family and Groupe Serveur, the majority shareholder, in the continued expansion of Artprice by Artmarket will soon be reflected in an increased equity stake in Artmarket.com through the acquisition of additional Artmarket.com shares. All mandatory regulatory disclosures will be filed with the AMF, the French Financial Markets Authority, and published online within legal deadlines, with share purchases executed strictly within authorized trading windows.

The company said these current and planned transactions are intended solely to reaffirm confidence in the future of Artprice by Artmarket.com and to provide full support to Artmarket.com. They are not intended to initiate a takeover bid or squeeze-out offer, contrary to what the company described as persistent misinterpretations across certain forums, and they do not involve any failure by the Ehrmann family to disclose transactions or threshold crossings.

The ONDE extranet, or Outil de Notification et de Déclaration Électronique, the AMF’s secure platform for filing official regulatory declarations such as insider transactions and major shareholding threshold crossings, lists the following current and upcoming filings:

1st filing — No. 2026DD1133787 (published on 08/17/2026)

2nd filing — No. 2026DD1134265 (published on 08/20/2026)

3rd supplementary filing — No. 2026DD1134267 (published on 08/20/2026)

In line with the family’s decision to increase its equity participation in Artmarket.com, Mrs. Nadège Ehrmann, a board member of Artmarket.com, has acquired additional Artmarket.com shares. Because the aggregate total of her purchases exceeded the statutory regulatory threshold, she completed the required disclosures with both the issuer and the AMF in full compliance with Article 19 of the EU Market Abuse Regulation (MAR).

The company also said the share purchases follow ordinary market price fluctuations and do not alter the Ehrmann family’s commitment to strengthening its equity position in Artprice by Artmarket.com.

In an additional update, Thierry Ehrmann said he has completed the manuscript of an 1,800-page philosophical and scientific treatise on artificial intelligence from 1987 to the present day. The central chapters of the work, about 450 rigorously documented pages, recount what the company called the untold human odyssey of Artprice, culminating in the worldwide construction of a universal memory of the art market through encounters with pioneers of art market sociology and historic market figures who have since died.

According to the release, these relationships enabled Artprice to become the custodian of the collective memory of those figures. The work also provides a scientific account of Artprice’s “AI-First” transformation, grounded in a philosophical framework articulated in 2026 under the AI concept of “alignment.”

The multilingual work will be distributed globally in a free digital edition and as a paid print edition in bookstores. The English version is scheduled for release in late August 2026 across OpenAI, Gemini, and on Artprice by Artmarket.com, before the French edition launches in September 2026.

The release included the following excerpt from the raw typescript:

“Artprice was not born to wrest secrets from the Art Market. It was born to prevent the public Market from succumbing to amnesia. This distinction is fundamental. It carries a specific conception of freedom. Transparency is not the abolition of privacy; it consists in rendering intelligible that which already belongs to the common sphere.

The more Artprice grew, the more we realized that we had become responsible for something far exceeding the mere economic and industrial function of a database. When you own a few books, you may do with them as you please. When you have gathered hundreds of thousands of unique fragments of the world’s Art Market memory from across multiple continents, legal ownership does not absolve moral responsibility: it transforms you into a custodian of this universal Art Market memory.

To receive without erasing. To connect without standardizing. To measure without diminishing. To render transparent without desecrating. To leverage digital technology without supplanting the human gaze. To build a digital information economy without ever forgetting that behind every data point lies a work of art, and behind every work of art lies a human being.

For nearly thirty years, we lived by these principles without ever feeling the need to enshrine them in a manifesto. Then, artificial intelligence transformed the nature of the challenge. With AI, memory is no longer merely consulted; it becomes an absolute training ground for learning.

A vertical, proprietary AI can now navigate volumes of information that no assembly of art historians or researchers could absorb in a lifetime. Connecting. Correlating. Detecting patterns. Surfacing anomalies. Rebuilding affinities. Identifying blind spots. Generating algorithmic hypotheses. It is a power of extraordinary magnitude. Yet it makes the authenticity and quality of the primary source more vital than ever.

At that exact moment, the thousands of libraries we salvaged across the globe undergo another shift in status. They are no longer simply Artprice’s past; they become the ultimate guarantee of its future. A vertical AI dedicated to the Art Market is meaningful only if anchored in a memory whose genealogy is flawlessly traceable across catalogues, manuscripts, codices, photographs, biographies, auction records, cross-verified sources, human corrections, and decades of rigorous standardization.

The source precedes the model. Always.”

Copyright 1987-2026 thierry Ehrmann www.artprice.com – www.artmarket.com

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About Artmarket.com

Artmarket.com is listed on Eurolist by Euronext Paris. The latest TPI analysis includes more than 18,000 individual shareholders, excluding foreign shareholders, companies, banks, FCPs, and UCITS. Euroclear: 7478 — Bloomberg: PRC — Reuters: ARTF.

Artmarket and its Artprice department were founded in 1997 by thierry Ehrmann, the company’s CEO, and are controlled by Groupe Serveur, created in 1987. A certified biography from Who’s Who In France© is available here:

Artmarket says it is a global player in the Art Market with its Artprice department, which it describes as the world leader in the accumulation, management, and exploitation of historical and current art market information in databanks containing more than 30 million indices and auction results, covering more than 915,300 artists.

Artprice Images® provides access to what the company describes as the world’s largest art market image bank, with 181 million digital images of photographs or engraved reproductions of artworks from 1700 to the present day, commented on by its art historians.

Artmarket, with its Artprice department, says it continuously enriches its databases from 7,200 auction houses and publishes art market trends for major agencies and press titles in 121 countries and 11 languages.

The company said Artmarket.com makes advertisements posted by its members available to its 9.3 million members, creating what it describes as the first global Standardized Marketplace® for buying and selling artworks at fixed prices.

Artmarket, with its Artprice department, says it has twice received the French Public Investment Bank’s state label “Innovative Company,” which supported the company’s project to consolidate its position as a global player in the art market.

Artprice by Artmarket publishes its 2025 Global Art Market Annual Report, published in March 2026:

Artprice by Artmarket publishes its 2025 Contemporary Art Market Report:

Summary of Artmarket press releases with its Artprice department:

Follow Artmarket and its Artprice department in real time on Facebook and Twitter: www.facebook.com/artpricedotcom/ (more than 6.4 million subscribers), x.com/artmarketdotcom, and x.com/artpricedotcom.

Discover Artmarket and its Artprice department here:

The company’s headquarters are at La Demeure du Chaos / Abode of Chaos, which The New York Times has called the “Museum of Contemporary Art Abode of Chaos,” with further information available here:

Madame Rachida Dati, French Minister of Culture, has granted official recognition to thierry Ehrmann’s Abode of Chaos as a “total work of art,” the global headquarters of Artprice by Artmarket:

La Demeure du Chaos/Abode of Chaos – Total Work of Art and Singular Architecture. Confidential bilingual work, now made public:

L’Obs – The Museum of the Future: https://youtu.be/29LXBPJrs-o

(more than 4.1 million subscribers)

Contact Artmarket.com and its Artprice department: ir@artmarket.com

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