Artsy’s Alexander Forbes had these sales:

Sean Kelly

• Antony Gormley’s £350,000 Cumulate (2011)
• and works by Los Carpinteros, Jose Dávila,Ellsworth Kelly, Idris Khan, and Callum Innes.

Lisson

• a Stanley Whitney painting had gone to an American museum for an undisclosed sum.
• Cory Arcangel’s Shania / Lakes (2015) for between $60,000–90,000,
• Ryan Gander’s I Be… (V) (2015) for between £70,000–100,000
• Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla’s Solar Catastrophe (2015)
• Rodney Graham’s Nautical Scene with Loudhailer (2004), and a Carmen Herrera, all for undisclosed prices.

Mike Kelley’s monumental acrylic-on-wood panel workUntitled 5 (2008-2009) also sold from the gallery for an undisclosed sum that almost surely nestled in the seven figures.

Galerie Gmurzynska

• sold a Robert Indiana for $1.5 million (to Sylvester Stallone).

 

At Art Basel in Miami Beach, the Art World Slows Down and Wisens Up

Eileen Kinsella finished her coverage with these sales:

Lisson Gallery

• sold Susan Hiller’s group of nine new archival dry prints titled Roughs (2015) for between $75,000 to $230,000. The gallery also sold Ai Weiwei’s installation Bicycle Basket with Flowers (2014) in the $160,000 to $270,000 range.

Van de Weghe Fine Art

•  sold a Damien Hirst canvas with butterflies, knives, blades, and household glass, titled I Love You But I Don’t Like You (2005), for $900,000.

Edward Tyler Nahem

• sold a 1989 Alighiero Boetti embroidered tapestry with the lengthy title, Alternating and dividing 625 letters of 100 colors, the colors of the world, to then become only one color, the color of the earth, and then again separating and dispersing in time, the time of becoming, to become wind, for a price in the range of $400,000 to $500,000.
• Nahem also sold an enamel on metal by Marilyn Minter includingTender/Much (1992). The gallery also sold works including a Picasso work on paper, and paintings by Cecily Brown, Keith Haring, Alex Katz, Tom Wesselmann, and Robert Rauschenberg.

Mazzoleni gallery

• sold three works by Alberto Burri from the 1960s including a “Plastica” series work for $2 million and a “Cellotex” series piece for $500,000.
• an Enrico Castellani from the 1970s, for $650,000
• two works by Agostina Bonalumi from the 1960s for $160,000 and $380,000 respectively.

 

Art Basel in Miami Beach Sales 2015 -artnet News

Katya Kazakina closed her ArtBasel coverage with a few more sales:

At Art Miami:

Waterhouse & Dodd gallery

• pieces by Sam Francis, Jean-Francois Rauzier and Theodoros Stamos totaling more than $450,000.

Scott White Contemporary Art

• sold a Barbara Kruger photo engraving, priced at $450,000.

James Barron Art

• sold several steel totems by 92-year-old artist Beverly Pepper, with prices from $67,500 to $250,000.

At Art Basel:

Richard Gray Gallery

• more than a dozen works priced from $14,000 to $2 million, including a new painting by Jim Dine for $275,000 and a Cubist drawing by Pablo Picasso for $300,000. The gallery said its top sale was $2 million, for a small painting spelling “Fool” by Christopher Wool.

Fergus McCaffrey gallery

• sold three paintings by American artist Marcia Hafif, including a 1967 blue and red canvas for $90,000. The gallery also sold a 2015 Jack Early painting of a popsicle for $55,000.

Dominique Levy gallery

• sold a 1965 painting by Frank Stella, with the asking price of $2.7 million. It was among many artworks at the fair by the 79-year-old artist.

Sperone Westwater gallery

• sold a Stella mixed media on cast aluminum with the asking price of $600,000.

Stallone Finds `Love’ in Miami as Art Basel Ends on Strong Sales  (Bloomberg Business)

Two Palms 

• Mel Bochner Three works Sold for USD 85,000 each
• Mel Bochner  Four works Sold for USD 40,000 each
• Chris Ofili  Ten sets Sold for USD 25,000 each Including placements to four museums
• Richard Prince Fifteen pieces Sold for USD 10,000 each
• Cecily Brown Two pieces Sold for USD 36,000 each

Mitchell-Innes & Nash

• POPE.L Skin set painting: orange people are god when she is shitting 2011-2012 Mixed media on paper in the range of $60,000
• PAUL WINSTANLEY Art School 35 2014 Oil on panel in the range of $35,000

Kelly Crow published these sales in the Wall Street Journal:

Galeria OMR

• four pieces by Jose Dávila, including “Untitled (M-maybe),” for $35,000.

Sean Kelly Gallery and Copenhagen’s Galleri Nicolai Wallner

• sold two of Mr. Dávila’s $45,000 sculptures of tilted marble slabs

David Kordansky Gallery

• sold one of Harold Ancart’s flowery still lifes to a U.S. collector for $40,000

Five Artists to Watch at This Week’s Art Basel Miami Beach ( WSJ)

 

Brian Boucher learned of thess sales:

303 Gallery

• sold two of Jeppe Hein’s square, wall-hung sculptures with neon reading “You are amazing just the way you are” against a gray background, for about $42,500 each.

Billionaires’ Black Friday, aka Art Basel Miami (artnet News)

Mitchell-Innes & Nash

• ALEX KATZ Painting Undisclosed sum.

Jack Shainman 

• Richard Mosse , Beast of Burden, 2015 digital c-print 72 x 90 inches Edition of 2 – SOLD OUT  for USD 42,000 each
• Hank Willis Thomas, Counterbalance, 2015fiberglass, chameleon auto paint finish 16 x 46 x 16 inches Edition of 3 – SOLD OUT for USD 45,000
• Hank Willis Thomas  Ernest and Ruth, 2015 various steel plate and pipe  83 x 96 x 24 inches Sold for USD 70,000
• Nick Cave  Soundsuit, 2015 mixed media including wire and bugle beads, buttons, sequined appliqués, fabric, metal and mannequin 103 x 32 x 21 inches Sold for USD 150,000
• Yoan Capote  Isla (calma), 2015 oil, nails, fish-hooks, on linen mounted on panel 45 x 55 inches Sold for USD 37,000
• Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Brow-Beater, 2015 oil on canvas  25 11 /16 x 23 3/4 inches 27 3/4 x 25 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches (framed) Sold for USD 35,000
• Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Nowhere that Should Matter, 2015 oil on canvas  55 1/4 x 27 3/4 inches 57 1/4 x 29 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches (framed) Sold for USD 50,000
• Titus Kaphar Covered by Fear, Draped in Loss, 2015 oil and mixed media on canvas 60 x 48 inches  Sold for USD 32,000

Alison Jacques Gallery

• Lygia Clark Work on paper from 1955 Sold for USD 600,000
• Dorothea Tanning  Salut, délire! (Hail, Delirium!), 1979 Oil on canvas Sold for USD 400,000
• Maria Bartuszová Drop, 1963-1984 Bronze, stone Sold for EURO 200,000

Long March Space 

• Ran Huang A (Perilous) Self-Portrait 《一張（多險的）自畫像》, 2015 Oil on canvas, 8 panels Each 120 x 100cm Sold for USD 250,000

 

Galerie Gmurzynska

• Wilfredo Lam Sold for USD 500,000

Galerie Max Hetzler

• Albert Oehlen Untitled (Baum 34), 2015 Sold for USD 375, 000 Sold to a Hong Kong collector
• Raymond Hains Saffa, 1970 Sold for USD 120,000 Sold to a US collector
• Edmund de Waal scherbe, 2015 Sold for USD 25,000 (VAT not included) Sold to a US collector

Skarstedt Gallery

• Günther Uecker Ohne Titel (Untitled), 1962 nails, white paint on canvas, stretched on wooden panel  23 x 22 7/8 x 4 inches (58.4 x 58.1 x 10.2 cm) signed, dated and inscribed Uecker / 62 / Anvers (on the reverse) Sold for USD 1 Million
• George Condo Artist and Muse, 2015 acrylic, silver paint, pencil on linen 58 x 65 inches (147.3 x 165.1 cm) Sold for USD 400,000
• David Salle Pouring, Leaving, 2015 oil, acrylic, crayon, archival digital print and pigment transfer on linen 74 x 94 inches (188 x 238.8 cm) Sold for USD 275,000

 Two Palms

• Mel Bochner Three works Sold for USD 85,000 each
• Mel Bochner  Four works Sold for USD 40,000 each
• Chris Ofili  Ten sets  Sold for USD 25,000 each Including placements to four museums
• Richard Prince Fifteen pieces Sold for USD 10,000 each
• Cecily Brown Two pieces Sold for USD 36,000 each 

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac  

• Andy Warhol, Joseph Beuys, 1980 Acrylic and silkscreen on canvas Sold for USD 1,400,000
• Robert Rauschenberg Appalachian Double Latch Spring Glut, 1989 Assembled metal Sold for USD 770,000
• Georg Baselitz Bündel (Bunch), 2015 Bronze Sold two from an edition of six for EURO 750,000 each
• Georg Baselitz Es ist kein Zimmer frei, 2015 Oil on canvas Sold for EURO 500,000
• Robert Longo Untitled (Potemkin, Black Square), 2015 Charcoal on mounted paper Sold for USD 450,000
• Alex Katz Four Trees 3, 2015 Oil on linen Sold for USD 400,000

Galleria Continua

• Jose Yaque Brucita II, 2015 Sold for EURO 20,000
• Alejandro Campins Les Moulins (Sainte-Marie), 2015 Sold for EURO 20,000
• Michelangelo Pistoletto Vortice-trittico (Vortex-triptyque), 2014 Sold for EURO 400,000

Vistamare

• Ettore Spalletti Senza titolo, grigio, bianco Sivec, 1992 Sold for EURO 130,000

David Zwirner (New York, London) 

• Sherrie Levine Suite of 18 postcards Sold for USD 185,000
• Raymond Pettibon  4 works on paper Sold for USD 30,000-100,000
• James Welling Two photos Sold for USD 35,000 each
• Jordan Wolfson Untitled, 2015 Inkjet print in aluminum artist’s frame Sold for USD 250,000

The Master, Judd Tully, patrolled the waterfront:

Salon 94

• Lorna Simpson composition, “Moveableness” from 2015, executed in screenprint on wood panel, sold to an American collector in the vicinity of the $235,000 asking price.
• Sylvie Fleury’s Pop-lite patterned and gold-hued abstraction “Past, Present, and Future” from 2012, for $75,000.

Paul Kasmin Gallery

• William Copley painting “Untitled (The Card Players)” from 1981, executed in acrylic on linen, sold for approximately $200,000
• Ivan Navarro’s vertiginous sculpture “Nothing Will Come of Nothing” from 2015, in neon, LED lights, aluminum, wood, paint, mirror, one-way mirror, and “electric energy” sold for $120,000.

Cheim & Read,

• Lynda Benglis’s “Untitled” wall relief from 1968-70, in pigmented bees wax, damar resin, and gesso on wood and Masonite sold for $250,000
• Juan Usle’s handsome abstraction “Hacia la Aurora” from 2014, scaled at 78 by 44 1/8 inches in vinyl dispersion and dry pigment on canvas, sold for $90,000.
• Tal R’s figurative painting “Rosa Wave” from 2014, in pigment, rabbit glue, and oil on canvas, to an otherwise unnamed celebrity for $65,000
• a 60 by 80 inch, richly impastoed Jonathan Lasker abstraction, “The End of Relevance” from 2015, for $165,000.

Thaddaeus Ropac,

• Robert Longo’s “Untitled (Potemkin, Black Square)” from 2015, in charcoal mounted on paper and featuring on one panel a trio of three anchored sailing ships, sold to an Istanbul collector for $450,000
• Robert Rauschenberg’s “Appalachian Latch Spring Glut” from 1989, in assembled and distressed metal, which went for $770,000
• Georg Baselitz’s imposing sculpture “Bundel (Bunch)” from 2015, cast in bronze and part of an edition of six plus one artist proofs, which sold for €700,000.
• two freshly minted Alex Katz paintings, “Four Trees” at 60 by 84 inches and “Choichun,” depicting a swimsuit-clad beauty in stop-action motion and much larger, at 72 by 144 inches. They sold at $400,000 and $550,000, respectively.

van de Weghe Gallery

• Dimitri Mavrommatis bought the late Picasso painting “Buste au Chapeau,” from 1971 for $10.5 million.

Xavier Hufkens,

• three untitled oil stick on paper works featuring starburst landscapes by Harold Ancart, selling at $35,000 apiece
• Evan Holloway’s two-part bronze, oil, and enamel sculpture “RWBY,” from 2015, a construction jauntily painted in shades of red, white, blue, and yellow, which sold in the $35-45,000 range.
• An untitled Matt Connors abstraction from 2015, in acrylic on canvas and scaled at 28 by 22 inches, went for $24,000.
•  a new Tracey Emin neon, “Always More,” in red and pink shades, from an edition of 10 plus three artist’s proofs, for $67,000.

Skarstedt Gallery

• a new, large-scaled David Salle painting in oil, acrylic, archival digital print, and pigment transfer, “Pouring, Leaving” from 2015, featuring, in part, a white princess rotary dial telephone and other arresting images. It went for $275,000.
• a new, Picasso-inspired George Condo painting, “Artist and Muse” in acrylic, silver paint, and pencil on linen, measuring 58 by 65 inches, for $400,000.
• A Zero Group wall relief by Gunther Uecker, “Untitled” from 1962 and consisting of pounded nails and white paint on canvas stretched on a wooden panel, sold for $1 million to a European collector.

Paula Cooper Gallery

• a pair of Rudolf Stingel “Untitled” patterned abstractions from 2011, executed in oil and enamel on linen and scaled at 32 by 32 inches, which sold at $500,000 apiece.
• the gallery sold two works by Kelley Walker, including “Screen to Screen” from 2015, in acrylic ink on silkscreen, MDF board, and aluminum frame, in the $150-200,000 price range
• Tauba Auerbach’s 60 by 40 inch weave painting “Metamaterial/Hole” from 2015, at approximately $200,000.
• Sol LeWitt’s freestanding, shard shaped sculpture “Complete Form MH 17” from 1990, in painted aluminum, which sold for around $600,0000.

Marianne Boesky

• sold Julia Dault’s multi-colored and patterned abstraction “Cat’s Cradle,” in acrylic and dibond panel from 2015
• Kon Trubkovich’s figurative “Stealing Fruit from Arbie,” also from 2015 and measuring 84 by 72 inches. Both were priced at under $60,0000.
• a Thornton Dial work on paper, “The Eagle Worlds of Many Ways,” a 2003 graphite and watercolor work on paper featuring the depiction of floating Viagra pills. It sold for under $100,000.

Sales Kick Off Slow But Steady at Art Basel Miami Beach  (BLOUIN ARTINFO)

Katya Kazakina reported these comments and sales:

“For works priced between $20,000 and $100,000 people come in and spend, they don’t even think about it,” said art dealer David Nolan, who sold 12 pieces three hours into the show. “Mostly we sold to new people. They all presume it’s a good investment.”

“Below $500,000, I pulled the trigger all day long,” said Lisa Schiff, a New York art adviser. “For secondary market works over $3 million, it was trickier. A lot of it was bullishly priced. I don’t feel comfortable being bullish right now after the auctions were soft.”

Van de Weghe Fine Art

• Francis Bacon’s “Man in Blue VI” sold for $13.5 million.
• The gallery also sold a Picasso painting that had an asking price of $10.5 million.

David Nolan Gallery

• a group of five drawings by Carroll Dunham, priced at $75,000, and two abstract sculptures by Mel Kendrick, at $50,000 each.

The Ramiken Crucible gallery

• sold out its entire booth: three photographs by Lucas Blalock, priced at $14,000 each, and four sculptures by Andra Ursuta, at $40,000 apiece, according to co-owner Blaize Lehane.

Eva Presenhuber

• sold another abstract canvas by Joe Bradley, for $450,000.
• Wyatt Kahn’s multipanel white monochrome canvas went for $55,000.
• Doug Aitken’s lightbox shaped as an airplane fetched $285,000.

David Zwirner

• sold a large painting by Kerry James Marshall for $850,000.
• Chris Ofili’s large new painting, recently on view at the Aspen Art Museum, went for $750,000.
• A painting by young Colombian artist Oscar Murillo featuring his signature doodles and a logo for coconut water Vita Coco fetched $300,000.

Galeria Elvira Gonzalez

• an elegant show of irregular shaped abstract canvases by Robert Mangold. Created from 1966 to 2005, the paintings were priced at $250,000 to $1.3 million and two works sold within the fair’s first hour, said gallery director Isabel Mognoni.

Stallone in `Acquiring Mood’ at Miami Art Basel as Stars Swarm  (Bloomberg Business)

Nate Freeman had these sales on Artnews:

Galerie Gmurzynska

• a giant Robert Indiana sculpture of a pirate skeleton at the booth that sold for $1.8 million

Hauser & Wirth

• a sizable 2014 Roni Horn work on paper for $600,000, which went to an American collector
• a large Mike Kelley painting, Untitled 5 (2008–09), which went to a European collector who requested that the price not be shared.

Off to the Races: Miami Basel Begins, With Buoyant Sales Reports, a Bevy of Stellas, and a Grab Bag of Celebrities (ARTnews)

Lehmann Maupin

• Kabinett continues to be successful with Nari Ward’s Breathing Panel #2 (2015) and Breathing Panel #3 (2015) both selling in the range of $50,000-$100,000 USD
• Do Ho Suh’s thread drawing Karma Juggler (2015) sold in the range of $150,000-$250,000 USD. One of the artist’s Specimen Series, from his Seoul Home, also sold in the range of $35,000-$45,000 USD.
• Both Mickalene Thomas paintings on the booth have now sold, with Untitled #15 (2015) going today in the range of $100,000-$200,000 USD.
• One of Tracey Emin’s newest neon works, To Hold Your Soul (2015), sold for about £70,000 GBP.

Fitz & Co’s round up:

Day 1 – Selection of Sales – Art Basel in Miami Beach 

Hauser & Wirth

• Paul McCarthy, White Snow, Dopey, Black Red White, Black, 2011-2015, Sold for USD 1,500,000
• Philip Guston, Untitled, 1969, Charcoal on paper Sold for USD 300,000
• Philip Guston Untitled (Drawing from The Phlebitis Series), 1975 c. Ink on paper Sold for USD 250,000
• Ellen Gallagher, Blue Streak, 1996 Sold for USD 500,000

David Zwirner

• Neo Rauch, Lösung, 2005Oil painting for USD 1.5 million
• Kerry James MarshallUntitled (Blot), 2015Sold for USD 850,000
• Chris Ofili, Poolside (Smoke Signals), 2014 – 2015 Oil, oil stick and graphite on canvas and linen Sold for USD 750,000
• Oscar Murillo¾ coco – coco, 2013-2015Oil, oil stick and graphite on canvas and linenSold for USD 300,000
• Isa GenzkenUntitled, 2015Mirror foil on 4 aluminum panelsSold for USD 250,000
• Sherrie LevineBeach Ball after Lichtenstein, 2015Cast bronze sculptureSold for USD 450,00
• Raymond Petition2 works on paper sold for USD 60,000 each
• Wolfgang TillmannsSold for USD 75,000
• Lisa YuskavageThe Big Pileup, 2015 Oil paintings sold for USD 800,000
• Lisa YuskavageSorbet Sky, 2013 Oil paintings sold for USD 120,000

Lisson Gallery

• Cory ArcangelShania / Lakes, 2015 Sold in the price range of USD 60,000 – 90,000
• Ryan Gander I Be…(V), 2015 Sold in the price range of GBP 70,000 -100,000
• Spencer Finch, Meadow, 2015 Sold in the price range of USD 45,000 – 70,000

Sprüth Magers 

• George Condo, Gigantaur, 2015 Oil on linen Sold for USD 600,000
• Andreas Gursky, SH IV, 2014 One from an edition of six sold for EURO 400,000
• Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Beneath You), 2015 Vinyl Sold for USD 320,000

Paul Kasmin

• Ivan Navarro, Nothing Will Come of Nothing, 2015  Neon, LED Lights, aluminum, wood, paint, mirror, one-way mirror and electric energy, Edition 1 of 3 (from an edition of 3 + 1 AP) Sold for USD 120,000 each

Almine Rech Gallery 

• Günther Förg, Untitled, 2014 Sold for EURO 170,000

Thomas Dane Gallery

• Kelley Walker, Untitled, 2014 Sold for USD 400,000
• Hurvin Anderson, Sold two large drawings for just under USD 100,000 each
• Lynda Benglis, COMANCHE, 2013 Sold for USD 65,000

Mitchell-Innes & Nash

• Eddie Martinez, I lived in Port Charlotte Florida in the 80’s and one day my dad and I were driving down the highway and noticed a gator being wrestled by some state troopers. We stopped driving and walked over to investigate and just as we arrived the gator pissed on the cops foot, 2015 Oil, enamel, silkscreen ink and spray paint on canvas, 108 by 144 in.  274.3 by 365.8 cm., Sold in the range of USD 125,000
• Brent Wadden, 4 Black Bars, 2015, Handwoven fibers, wool, cotton and acrylic on canvas, 106 3/8 by 82 5/8 in.  270 by 210 cm. Sold in the range of USD 50,000
• Leigh Ledare, Two photographs from the Pretend You’re Actually Alive series, Sold in the range of USD 5,000 – 10,000

Tornabuoni Art  

• Paolo Scheggi, Zone Riflesse, 1964 Sold for around USD 300,000

Van Doren Waxter (New York) 

• Alan Shields, Anti-Aunt Bomb Crew, 1971 Acrylic, cotton, webbing and thread (double sided) Asking price USD 90,000

Rhona Hoffman Gallery  

• Sylvia Plimack Mangold One work, sold for USD 100,000
• Jacob Hashimoto, One work, priced at USD 65,000
• Mel Bocher, One work, sold for USD 30,000
• Nathaniel Mary Quinn, One work, sold for between USD 16,000 – 18,000
• Deana Lawson, One work, sold for between USD 15,000 – 20,000
• Deana Lawson, One work, sold for between USD 15,000 – 20,000

Casa Triangulo

• Ascânio MMM, Losangular II, 2001 Painted wood Sold for USD 70,000
• Sandra Cinto, One work, sold for USD 70,000
• Mariana Palma, One work, sold for USD 35,000
• Eduardo Berliner, Drawings, sold for between USD 2,000 – 4,000

Most likely the dozen works by Louise Nevelson sold today included works that were sent to collectors in advance:

Go Louise!12 Nevelsons sold in first 3 hours @PaceGallery #ArtBaselMiami

— Robin Pogrebin (@rpogrebin) December 2, 2015

Lehmann Maupin announced these sales from today’s Venissage:

Tracey Emin’s embroidery Is This Love (2012) sold in the range of £100,000-£150,000 GBP, and her neon Loving You More (2015) sold in the range of £50,000 GBP.

Two works have sold thus far from Nari Ward’s Kabinett, including We Shall Overcome (2015) in the range of $70,000-$90,000 USD, and Blackboard Numbers (2014) in the range of $50,000-$60,000 USD.

Teresita Fernández’s glazed ceramic panel Viñales (Precipice), (2015) sold in the range of $300,000-$400,000 USD.

Mickalene Thomas’s Clarivel #1 (2015) sold in the range of $75,000-$125,000 USD.

Liu Wei’s newest painting sold in the range of $200,000-$250,000 USD.

Robin Rhode’s RGB (2015) sold in the range of €30,000-€40,000 EUR.

The Miami Herald reported this sale at another Miami fair this week:

Pinta Miami, Bogota gallerist Luis Angel Parra said he sold two sculptures by Colombian Hugo Zapata for $50,000 each.

Miami Art Week opens with a bang, Art Basel to follow (Miami Herald)