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FIAC Sales Report

October 22, 2012 by Marion Maneker

A fairgoer told us that this very small Calder sold for €400k early during FIAC. Feel free to send us your sales

Thaddeus Ropac

  • Antony Gormley‘s cast-iron bubble-bodied “Standing Matter XXXV” (2011) in the first minutes for £325,000.
  • Liza Lou‘s “Not Yet Titled” (2012) for $175,000
  •  two of Robert Longo photorealistic charcoal drawings for $275,000 each.

White Cube

  • Theaster Gates‘s “Flag (Tricolore)” (2012), made from a decommissioned firehose, which went to a French institution.
  • Liza Lou was also a hit here, with her work “Untitled #6” going for $180,000.
  • Kris Martin‘s collage “My Heimat (with moths)” went for $25,000
  • Gary Hume‘s “Plimsol Line” (2008) sold for £125,000
  • Tracey Emin also fetched £125,000.
Hauser & Wirth 
  • Paul McCarthy,”White Snow Dwarf Head 3″ at $1.75 million and a couple of the artist’s cibachrome on aluminum works for $75,000 apiece.
  • Rita Ackerman, “Fire by Days” paintings went for between $25,000 and $95,000.
kamel mennour
  • Michel François‘s “Deux temps” (2012) to a Dutch collector
  • Claude Lévêque‘s neon “Aveugle” (2012) and several other pieces, in a day of “very good work,” at prices between €50,000 and €200,000.
Sprüth Magers
  • four Cindy Sherman works from the “Bus Riders” series to a British collection for $20,000 each,
  • two Barbara Kruger pieces (“Untitled (Good)” and “Untitled (Evil)” (both 2001) to American collectors for $100,000 each
  • Andreas Gursky‘s “Beijing” (2010) for €75,000
  • Louise Lawler‘s “Pedestal” (2008-2010) to another American for $75,000.
Peres Projects
  •  €30,000 for each of Mark Flood‘s acrylic-on-canvas works “Cheat,” “Do Ass Youre Tolled,” and “Bring A Gun” (all 2012)

Eleven Rivington

  • Valeska Soares‘s remarkable colorful tableau of vintage hardcover book jackets “The Sleep of Reason” (2012) going for $50,000

Sadie Coles

  • Elizabeth Peyton for $350k

Helly Nahmad (New York)

  • Miro’s 1927 Surrealist abstract “Peinture (Le Cheval de Cirque)”

Tornabuoni Arte

  •  red-punctured Lucio Fontana “Concetto Spaziale, Attese,” from 1967-68, priced 2 million euros ($2.63 million).
  • Dadamaino for €250,000, or $326,000

Metro Pictures

  • half of the 10 smaller 2012 Robert Longo ink-and-charcoal “Studies of the American Flag” it was showing on its booth, priced at $35,000 each. Longo’s large-scale triptych of the same subject, priced at $600,000, was on reserve.

Lisson Gallery

  • 2012 Anish Kapoor fiberglass wall sculpture, tagged at 500,000 pounds ($807,000).

Templon

  • 2012 portrait “Romaine Munroe” by the U.S.-based painter Kehinde Wiley, with a price of $150,000, was bought by a French collector.

Paula Cooper

  • 2012 Rudolf Stingel silver abstract for $400,000 to a U.S. collector
  • Sophie Calle’s two-piece “Autobiographies (The Giraffe)” for $40,000 to a French client.
Continua gallery
  • a 2006 work by the Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei — a large ceramic bowl filled with pearls — had sold for €300,000
  • a work of sculpted figures by the Cameroon-born artist Pascale Marthine Tayou had gone for €85,000

Karsten Greve

  • Georgia Russell, a Paris-based Scottish artist, sold three book cover cut-outs by Wednesday, at prices between €16,000 and €18,000.

Billionaires Snap Up $8 Million Miro, Fontana in Paris (Bloomberg)

FIAC Report: “From 10am, Collectors Were Coming In and Ready to Buy” (Artinfo)

FIAC Art Fair Opens in Paris (New York Times)

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