FIAC Sales Report

The Master, Judd Tully, already has the receipts from the cash registers at FIAC:

Thaddeus Ropac: Jack Pierson‘s found advertising-sign-letter piece in metal, wood, plastic, and paint, “Golden Years” (2010), sold for $150,000; and Robert Longo‘s roughly eight-by-six-foot untitled charcoal-on-mounted-paper depiction of a veiled woman, dated 2010, sold for $80,000. Two new paintings by Georg Baselitz also sold, “Glaube Versetzt Berge” and “Kein Schatten, Aber Coellinblau,” for €430,000 ($602,000) and €400,000 ($560,000) respectively, and a prickly stainless-steel bar sculpture by Antony Gormley, “Quantum Void V,” sold for £260,000 ($410,000). A 2010 floral and fruit still life by Mark Quinn, “Elementary Particles,” sold for £125,000 ($197,000) as well.

Hauser & Wirth: Matthew Day Jackson “The Way We Were,” a 2010 edition of three executed in titanium, aluminum, steel, iron, bronze, lead, and copper, sold out at $130,000 each. Another 2010 piece, “Golem,” a life-size figure in found wood, plastic, and detritus from the recent Gulf oil spill, sold for $150,000. Jackson’s vision of the aftermath of the Hiroshima atomic-bomb attack, “August 6, 1945,” in scorched, found, and painted wood, also sold, for $125,000. “August 8, 1969,” […] in gypsum plaster and found, painted, and scorched wood, sold for $120,000. Paul McCarthy‘s 2009 bronze pirate “Shit Face Fucked Up,” part of an edition of two plus one artist proof, saw two from its edition sell at $750,000 apiece

Daniel Templon: Atul Dodiya‘s beautiful mixed-media “Meditation” sold with a price tag of €60,000 ($83,000).

Jérôme de Noirmont gallery: Pierre et Gilles‘s […] photo-realist painting of Audrey Tautou sold […] to an American collector for €100,000 ($138,500).

Chemould: Jitish Kallat […] large acrylic painting sell for €160,000 ($221,500).

Marat Guelman gallery: Ukrainian artist Ilya Chichkan‘s arresting Pop portrait of a young woman with a Karl Marxian beard, painted on calfskin, sold for €8,000 ($11,100).

David Zwirner gallery: Abel Abdessemed‘s cube of taxidermied animals […] sold yesterday evening for an undisclosed price. Works sold at prices ranging from $50,000 — for “Go On,” a pair of cement boxing gloves from an edition of five, of which four sold — to $280,000, for the artist’s 2010 wall-sized installation, “Silent Warriors,” comprised of approximately 200 handmade metal masks. “We sold it to a major Swiss collection,” said Zwirner.

Two of Yayoi Kusama‘s pumpkin sculptures went for $500,000 each, and several of her paintings also found buyers.

Salon 94: Barry X Ball‘s “Sleeping Hermaphrodite.” […] sold for €450,000 ($623,000).

Blum & Poe: Mark Grotjahn‘s 2010 “Untitled (V over Blue and Pink 41.23),” for $90,000; Florian Maier-Aichen’s 2009 “Salton Seas,” an 89 ¾-by-116-inch C-print from an edition of six for $100,000; and, for $275,000, “Little Brother,” by Zhang Huan (a new member of their roster), an ash-on-linen 2008 painting measuring 78 ¾-by-59-inch.