TEFAF Puts Points on the Board

The Master, Judd Tully, is on the ground at TEFAF and already toting up the sales:

Clive Head’s photo-realist oil painting of a South Kensington cafe, Coffee at the Cottage Delight, at London’s Marlborough Gallery for £120,000.

New York/London/Zurich Hauser & Wirth as Eva Hesse‘s expressionist painting, No Title from 1960, at 36-by-36 inches, sold for $750,000 and Berlinde de Bruyckere‘s Untitled figurative sculpture of an impaled male torso from 2010 in wax, epoxy and wood sold for €170,000. On a smaller scale, Subodh Gupta‘s 2009 black bronze, Et tu, Duchamp, from an edition of 10 plus two artist proofs sold for €120,000.

New York’s Jack Kilgore, who sold Marten Pepyn’s Saint Cecilia, an oil on panel from circa 1600, which had an asking price of $143,000, and Georges Clarin’s Naiades et Centaures dans les Vagues, from the late 19th century, which carried an asking price of $110,000.

New York’s Haunch of Venison sold Andy Warhol’s “Marilyn Monroe” — a complete, 10-part portfolio of screen prints from an edition of 250 published in 1967 — for $1.5 million, to a Northern European collector

Jean-Michel Basquiat’s brawny Busted Atlas 2, from 1982, an acrylic on canvas mounted on tied wooden stretcher bars with twine, […] sold at the booth of New York’s Van de Weghe Gallery to a German collector for $2.2 million.Van de Weghe also sold two small, untitled Alexander Calder painted sheet metal and wire sculptures, from 1964 and 1974, at €240,000 and $550,000, respectively, as well as Duane Hanson’s life-size Security Guard, from 1990, a bronze statue polychromed in oil and adorned with mixed media and other accessories, for approximately $595,000, to a Belgian collector.

Sperone Westwater sold Malcolm Morley’s jaunty Crashed in Ocean, Survived, from 2009, measuring 93 by 72 inches and executed in oil on linen with string and paper attachments, to a Belgian collector for $300,000, and a new uber-realistic painting by Jan Worst, Stern Attachment, featuring a baroque interior and a glamorously dressed woman seen from the back, to a Dutch collector, for €90,000.

London’s Waterhouse & Dodd, […] featured a single contemporary work (which TEFAF rules allow), a large-scaled C-print photograph by Jean-Francois Rauzier, Versailles, from 2010, which was made in an edition of eight. The gallery sold every one of the works, at $25,000 apiece, on Thursday.