Art Basel’s Vernissage was a very busy place judging from Judd Tully’s sales report on ArtInfo.com:

Per Skarstedt

• Barbara Kruger’s seminal 1987 Are we having fun yet?, a massive 12-by-8-foot photograph silkscreen on vinyl, sold for $700,000

• Christopher Wool’s Untitled painting, an enamel on silkscreen ink on linen from 2002, to an American collector for $800,000

• Cindy Sherman’s naughty, leather-masked Untitled #264 (1992) — the only one from the edition of six in her “Sex Pictures” series that’s still in private hands — to a Swiss collector for $500,000.

• George Condo’s 2005 bronze The Madman, a 29-inch-high piece from an edition of four, sold to an American collector for $375,000, and a 72-by-60-inch oil on linen painting, The Colorful Banker, went to a Swiss collector for $225,000

Xavier Hufkens

• Louise Bourgeois’ 2009 A Baudelaire (#7) — a major and late etching, watercolor, gouach, and pencil on paper that was enclosed in a large white frame — to a European collector for over $650,000

Hauser & Wirth

• a striking red-and-scarlet-hued 1998 fabric and steel sculpture […] encased in a wood-and-glass vitrine, sold for $850,000.

• Matthew Day Jackson […] Lumpen Proletariat, the unique piece — which resembles the visages of both the artist and moon-landing astronaut Neil Armstrong — sold for $150,000.

• two complete sets of Paul McCarthy’s patinated bronze suite of Snow White’s dwarfs for a cumulative $3 million. (Sneezy and Dopey were priced at $750,000 apiece.)

Cheim & Read

• Louise Bourgeois: an untitled 1996 installation of sewn mannequins hanging on a kind of metal clothesline-like armature for $1.5 million, and Les Fleurs, a stunning 2010 suite of 28 gouache on paper works, also for $1.5 million.

• untitled Joan Mitchell abstraction from 1952-53 for approximately $2 million, as well as a 1958 Sam Francis drawing from Mitchell’s personal collection for $125,000.

• Ghada Amer’s 2008 Green Paradise painting for $100,000.

Gagosian

• Student Nurse sold for $4.2 million, according to a source unaffiliated with the gallery.

Krugier Gallery

• an American collector bought Pablo Picasso’s unique 1960 plaster maquette Personnage.

Collectors Storm Art Basel, Driving a Bull Market (ArtInfo.com)