IFPDA (Print) Sales Report

The International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) Print Fair, which opened at the Park Avenue Armory on Wednesday, November 4. These sales were reported by participating galleries:

Susan Sheehan Gallery

• sold a complete suite of nine color lithographs from Frank Stella’s 1964 Purple Series to a museum
• two Andy Warhol Flowers priced at $80,000 to a private collector and a museum
• all of their Robert Indiana editions
• a 1964 lithograph by Ellsworth Kelly titled Blue and Orange, among other sales.

Mary Ryan Gallery

• a 1984 Robert Longo lithograph to a major museum
• six Frank Stella Benjamin Moore lithographs to an institution
• one Robert Gober print to museum.
• The gallery reported a large demand for the latest series by Alex Katz, a suite of large-scale screen prints titled Black Dress.

Carolina Nitsch

• a set of twelve color etching by Thomas Schutte to the Cleveland Clinic
• a large group of twenty-five monoprints by Philip Taaffe to a major financial institution

Osborne Samuel

• one definitive print and two color prints of Speed Train by Cyril Powers priced at $150,000 to a private collection

Durham Press, Inc.

• a suite of ten Hurvin Anderson Mirror: Don’t Look Back prints to the Detroit Institute of Arts

Gerish Fine Arts

• an 1836 John Constable work to the Getty Museum.

Dolan/Maxwell

• the Detroit Institute of Arts has acquired two Robert Riggs lithographs
• one etching by Helen Phillips has been sold to a university museum
• two Donald Tsevy watercolors and two Stephen Ford linocuts have gone to a private collections.

Jan Johnson Old Master & Modern Prints

• a 1735 work by Claude Duflos, a Giuseppe Maria Mitelli from 1686
• a 1568 engraving by Cory Cornnelia titled The Betrayal of Christ to major museums.

Hill Stone, Inc. 

• one color lithograph by Edouard Vuillard
• a rare engraving by Albrecht Dürer, a Four Seasons edition by Pieter Bruegel
• a Remembrandt van Rijn Abraham Entertaining the Angels to museum collections