David Zwirner: a work on paper by Tomma Abts, a small scale sculpture by Carol Bove, works on paper by Suzan Frecon, works on paper by Donald Judd, a recent painting and a historical work on paper by Yayoi Kusama, works on paper by Raymond Pettibon, works on paper by Ad Reinhardt, a work on paper by Bridget Riley, photographs by Wolfgang Tillmans; and photos by Christopher Williams.
Eleven Rivington: five large scale abstract paintings by Saccoccio (all from 2014), priced from $22,000–32.500. These included Portrait (Jolt), which sold to a private Chicago collection, and Profile (Roy II Convex), which sold to “a museum benefactor with homes in New York and Chicago.” And three works by Davy found buyers, priced at $4,800 each, including Rafi (2014).
Dealers Upbeat About Expo Chicago Sales (Artnet News)
Hollis Taggart: Michelangelo Pistoletto’s 2013 Golden Buddha and Mirror.
Marlborough: a 2013 chubby bronze Cone Fixing Cylinder by Tom Otterness went for a six-figure price. Also snapped up was Santiago Calatrava’s 2014 marble Untitled. (The flattened fortune cookie shape was perched on an attenuated wood cone). Promised to a client was 82-year-old Juan Genoves’s 2013 Artefactos, acrylic figures embedded with shells on canvas.
Wealthy Collectors Swell Aisles at Expo Chicago (New York Observer)
Matthew Marks Gallery: Robert Gober’s 2007 sculpture of beeswax breasts and a small bird’s nest with blue eggs, which sold to a private Chicago collector
Chicago Expo Lures Collectors as Beeswax Sculpture Sells (Bloomberg)