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Art Brussels Sales Report

May 3, 2015 by Marion Maneker

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Diango Hernandez, The Black Marble Cock, 2015

The Art Newspaper was the official scorekeeper for the fair:

Sofie Van de Velde sold works to international collectors as well as local collectors at prices up to €19,000.

Martos gallery booth sold out

James Cohan sold Xu Zhen’s painting, Under Heaven – 1136NH1409

Meessen De Clercq sold over 20 works on the preview day and on Saturday sold a painting by Claudio Parmiggiani for €80,000.

Michel Rein sold works by Didier Faustino, Sophie Whettnall and Farah Atass

Almine Rech sold works by artists including, Mark Hagen, Genieve Figgis, and Ida Tursic & Wilfried Mille.

Daniel Templon sold twenty works including a neon sculpture by Ivan Navarro, priced at €150,000.

Kromus & Zink sold a set of handmade glass vessels by Chechen artist Aslan Gaisumov priced at €69,000.

New Art Centre, Salisbury (UK) who represent the estates of Barbara Hepworth and Sir Antony Caro sold important work by Caro for €150,000 along with an iconic Hepworth drawing on the opening day of the fair.

Scott Reyburn recorded these sales:

James Cohan: sold a Bill Viola single-panel video piece, “Fire Martyr,” to a Belgian family foundation for €190,000.

Barbar Gladstone: R.H. Quaytman “O Topico, Chapter 27” to a Belgian collector for $105,000.

Eleven Rivington sold at least three 2015 abstract portraits by the New York painter Jackie Saccoccio, priced from $35,000 to $40,000 each.

Galerie Krinzinger from Vienna sold all nine of its recent abstract paintings by Jannis Varelas, priced at €17,000 or €19,000 each, depending on size.

Georgina Adam had these sales:

Michel Rein sold 10 works by Sophie Whettnall and placed a sculpture by the African-American artist Abigail DeVille with a “major Norwegian collector”

a Finnish collector bought a fine Barthélémy Toguo from Lelong (€55,000)

Daniel Templon sold 20 works, including a Kehinde Wiley for €180,000.

Sterling Ruby collages and mobiles on show at Xavier Hufkens found buyers at prices between $65,000 and $80,000, with the biggest mobile being sold for $300,000.

Colin Gleadell heard about this trove:

Marlborough Contemporary sold a canvas with cut lemons arranged like a portrait by artist Diango Hernández for €6,500; photographs of long dresses standing under water in the Dead Sea by Sigalit Landau for €20,000 each, and an embroidery by Narelle Jubelin that apes a million dollar Christopher Wool word painting which reads “Hole in the Head”, for €12,500.

Differing Fates for Art and Design Cousins  (NYTimes.com)

The Art Market: Lockheed lounger makes record price (FT.com)

Art Sales: Art Brussels goes from strength to strength (Telegraph)

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