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ArtHK 10 Sales Wrap-Up

June 4, 2010 by Marion Maneker

Sarah Douglas gathers some sales in Hong Kong at ArtHK 10:

White Cube:

  • a large formaldehyde tank piece — the format that put Hirst on the map — containing somewhat overwrought Christological imagery: a dove suspended near the top of the tank, and a human skull resting on its floor. It was the first time one of these tank pieces had been shown anywhere in Asia, and it sold for $2.6 million to a Taiwanese buyer, according to White Cube director Neil Wenman.
  • The gallery also sold pieces by Sarah Morris, Tracey Emin, Antony Gormley, Darren Almond, Rachel Kneebone, Zhang Huan, and Ragib Shaw.

Marianne Boesky:

  • Boesky’s solo show of Nara, dominated by recent wall-mounted ceramic pieces done in his signature teen angst aesthetic, was a big hit at the fair, and she sold several of these pieces at prices ranging from $65,000-80,000. A large 2009 ceramic piece called Rock N Roll the Roll sold for $350,000.

Sperone Westwater:

  • Liu Ye–By the fair’s penultimate day, seven of his paintings had been spoken for, including small ones priced at $200,000 apiece and a large meditative depiction of bamboo stalks for $650,000, which went to a collector from mainland China. Other buyers were Asians from Hong Kong, Singapore, London, and New York.

London gallerist Pilar Corrias

  • a boothfull of meticulously painted work by Pakistan-born artist Shahzia Sikander. One large piece, based on Persian miniatures and priced at $125,000, sold to a private collector, and a $300,000 multi-panel work had been claimed for review by a museum acquisition committee.

Pace Gallery

  • Pace Beijing, sold a painting by young Los Angeles-based artist Sterling Ruby for $120,000 and a large painting by well-known Chinese artist Zhang Xiaogang for $1 million.

Max Protetch

  • a Yue Minjun painting sold for $750,000.

A Triumphant Art HK Seizes Vanguard of the Asian Market (ArtInfo.com)

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Filed Under: Art Fairs Tagged With: ArtHK 10, Hong-Kong

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