More Armory Show Sales

Bloomberg did a little more sleuthing this weekend and came up with these sales:

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac: It sold a $560,000 painting by Baselitz and less expensive pieces by Tony Cragg and Antony Gormley. Sales are up 40 percent from last year.

Joel Mesler, owner of Rental gallery on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, […] was smoking outdoors, looking relaxed after selling every piece for between $3,500 and $35,000 to such collectors as Susan and Michael Hort; Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. vice president for stores Martin Eisenberg; and hedge-fund managerAdam Sender within two hours of the fair’s opening to VIPs on Wednesday.
At the Art Show: Sperone Westwater sold a woven map by Alighiero Boetti for about $1 million

Cheim & Read gallery sold 28 of 30 small watercolors depicting flowers and pregnant silhouettes by Louise Bourgeois, with 25 pieces priced at $65,000 each and three at $75,000. A vibrant abstract painting by Joan Mitchell, with the asking price of $4 million, also sold