White Cube: Tracey Emin monoprints and a $140,000 painting made with charcoal and wax by Magnus Plessen; Theaster Gates cabinet filled with folded fire hose for $150,000; Georg Baselitz painting for $500,000
Acquavella Galleries: lower-priced primary market work by Damian Loeb and Enoc Perez
D’Amelio Gallery: pieces by Heather Rowe ($24,000) and Tamar Halpern ($12,000)
Rhona Hoffman Gallery sold a striped watercolor by Spencer Finch for $28,000
Kavi Gupta sold a fused-wood wall piece by Theaster Gates for $125,000
Franklin Parrasch: a wall relief of a staircase by Joe Goode that hadn’t been seen publicly since 1971 for mid-six figures alongside two voluptuous Ken Price ceramics in the $165,000 range.
Galerie Lelong sold a wooden Jaume Plensa head sculpture for a price in the mid-six figures
Galerie Thomas: a painting by Fernand Léger, “Les deux femmes a l’oiseau (Two women with a bird)” sold for $1.6 million
Paul Kasmin sold over a dozen works exclusively to new clients. Diddy took home an Iván Navarro sculpture with the word “Scream” reflected in a mirrored tunnel for approximately $65,000, a painting from Deborah Kass’s Warhol-inspired “Yentl” series for $84,000 and a whopping 13 more Navarros.
Art Basel Miami Beach Sees Strong Lower-Market Buys, With Notable Standouts (Artinfo)