• Ricco/Maresca: a 90-by-36 inch Martin Ramirez “Madonna” from circa 1952-53 in graphite, tempera, and crayon on crinkled and beautifully patinaed brown butcher paper “for north of $400,000;” Megalopolis 789,” by North Carolina outsider George Widener — a so-called “Lightning Calculator” — for approximately $50,000
• Fleisher/Ollman: Tristan Lowe‘s “Lunacy: Near Side,” a 21 ½ inch-diameter relief in felt on wood that sold to a Chicago collector for $5,000; and “Glamour Guide,” a prime 1973 work by the late Chicago Imagist Christina Ramberg in the artist’s painted frame, to a private American collector for a sum in the $100,000-135,000 range
• UNTITLED had sold over 35 of  [Andrew] Hahn’s silkscreens, priced at an affordable $2,000 apiece.
• Jack Shainman Gallery: No fewer than ten works from Shainman’s booth had sold just a few hours into opening day, including a “sound suit” sculpture by Nick Cave, priced at $85,000, and a striking Barkley Hendricks painting of a seated woman, for $130,000.

• Andrew Kreps: David Wojnarowicz’s seven brightly colored plaster busts from his 1984 series “Heads” are arrayed on shelves — out of 23 — sold for $300,000 to a longtime gallery client.
• I-20: hand-painted studies for painted-metal “module” sculptures by artist Don Dudley were selling like hotcakes at $5,000 apiece. Twenty-five had sold in total, with a set of seven being picked up by the Whitney Museum; Sylvia Sleigh titled “Annunciation,” which depicts a man with a voluminous afro standing in a garden, to the bank Credit Suisse, for $585,000
• Bortolami: a Richard Aldrich work featuring an unfolded case for Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time” went for $25,000, and a smaller work for $8,000. And two other works by the artist that weren’t on view also sold, for $8,000 apiece
• Sean Kelly: already sold pieces by Leandro Erlich, Robert Mapplethorpe, the collective Los Carpinteros, and a recent addition to its roster, Kehinde Wiley. Two recent Wiley paintings on paper, in hot demand, flew off the walls at $40,000 apiece.
• Lehmann Maupin: Gilbert & George pieces made from postcards , some 25 of them had sold, for £16,750 (around $26,000) apiece
• Hauser & Wirth: sold several works by gallery artists, including Martin Creed, Louise Bourgeois, and Paul McCarthy; prices ranged from $25,000-250,000
• Thaddaeus Ropac:  Georg Baselitz‘s mammoth 2006 “Adieu (Remix)” painting for €600,000, a signature 2008 Tony Cragg sculpture titled “Bent of Mind” for €520,000, an untitled 2010 painting by Jason Martin for £65,000, and a Robert Longo drawing for $30,000
• White Cube:  Antony Gormley sculpture, for £250,000, two recent abstract pieces by Sergei Jensen for €38,000 and €42,000, as well as pieces that were not on view by Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst

A Slow Start for the Armory Show’s Modern Section, Though a Sprinkling of Connoisseur Pieces Caught Buyers’ Eyes (Artinfo.com)

Bargains Were the New Bling at the Armory Show’s VIP Opening, With Affordable Works Joining Blue-Chip Art for Lively Sales (Artinfo.com)