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Armory Week Sales Report

March 4, 2016 by Marion Maneker

Barkley Hendricks at Jack Shainman
Barkley Hendricks at Jack Shainman

The Armory Show issued its final sales report on Sunday:
11R (New York)

  • Jackie Saccoccio, three abstract paintings sold for $45,000 each
  • Mika Tajima, two textile works, $30,000 each.
  • Evan Nesbit, three acrylic and burlap paintings, $12,000 each.
  • Jeronimo Elespe, painting, $14,000
  • Moira Dryer, 1989 drawing, $14,000

Allan Stone Projects (New York)

  • Wayne Thiebaud, three works sold ranging from $25,000 to $500,000

Cardi Gallery (Milan)

  • Pino Pinelli, three works for $30,000 – $85,000

INK Studio (Beijing)

  • “At The Armory Show 2016, INK studio has made several sales of the artist Zheng Chongbin’s works, including the iconic Unfolding Landscape, from the artist’s new Land Art series, which sold to a top New York museum.”

KOW (Berlin)

  • “We sold two editions of #blacktivist by Mario Pfeifer, a 2-channel video installation, each priced at $15,000. In addition to sales, we had tremendous interest in the piece and were able to promote the work for upcoming institutional exhibitions in Portugal, Germany, and the United States.” – Raphael Oberhuber, Director

James Cohan (New York)

  • Trenton Doyle Hancock work sold for $80,000
  • Elias Sime collage sold for $90,000

Leila Heller Gallery (New York and Dubai)

  • Ed Ruscha work on paper for $550,000

Luce Gallery (Turin) 

  • “This year we had a solo booth by Davide Balliano. We had a very strong response from collectors and the booth was sold out all works at $10,000 – $15,000 on the day of the preview.” – Nikola Cernetic, Owner
    Davide Ballaino.

Pippy Houldsworth Gallery (London)

  • “We have had great success with sales this year, particularly with Luke Diiorio’s striking new work. We are also thrilled with the reaction to Clem Crosby’s paintings, five of which have sold, especially in light of this being his first outing in New York.” – Pippy Houldsworth, Owner

Eva Presenhuber (Zurich)

  • Ugo Rondinone stone sculpture for $350,000

Marianne Boesky (New York)

  • Dashiell Manley, three paintings sold between $20,000 and $30,000

Mazzoleni (London)

  • Sold several works from Nunzio and Alberto Burri, ranging from $40,000 to  $700,000

Rodolphe Janssen (Brussels)

  • “We are delighted to have placed works by, amongst others, Davide Balula, Sayre Gomez and Torbjørn Rødland in both North American and European collections.”

Galerie Schultz (Berlin)

  • Georg Baselitz oil on canvas $400,000
  • Gerhard Richter oil on newspaper for $170,000

Spruth Magers (Berlin, London and Los Angeles)

  • Sterling Ruby work for $175,000

Tim Taylor (London)

  • Richard Patterson, two paintings, $100,000 and $250,000

Thaddeus Ropac (Paris and Salzburg)

  • Sold works by Richard Artschwager, and Robert Longo, among others

Two Palms (Los Angeles)

  • “We are pleased to have sold more than half of the 11 large monotypes by Cecily Brown at $66,000 each and have holds on works by major New York museums.”

Upstream (Amsterdam)

  • David Haines, a dozen works on paper for $25,000 each

Katya Kazakina came up with these sales:

Victoria Miro gallery

  • The 2016 diptych by Nigerian-born artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby priced at $75,000 sold to a museum

Galerie Poggi & Galerie Tanja Wagner

  • One piece by Kapwani Kiwangapriced at $10,000, sold on the first day.

James Cohan Gallery

  • Trenton Doyle Hancock work sold for $80,000.
  • Ethiopian Elias Sime’s collage sold for $90,000.

Jack Shainman Gallery

  • sold a small 1991 painting of a black face with golden halo by Kerry James Marshall for $250,000.
  • Barkley Hendricks sold for $200,000. “I could have sold it a 100 times,” Shainman said.

Grimm Gallery

  • sold three photographs by Dana Lixenberg of black residents of the Imperial Courts housing project in Los Angeles, each priced at 6,000 euros ($6,600).

Galerie Eva Presenhuber

  • placed two paintings by Los Angeles-based Henry Taylor for $60,000 and $35,000.

The Stevenson Gallery

  • had success with Zanele Muholi’s black-and-white photograph of a black woman with ropes around her neck and a stool on her head, selling out an edition of eight with each piece priced at $6,500.

Anderson Cooper, Steve Martin Hit Armory as Black Artists Dazzle  (Bloomberg Business)

Georgina Adam reported from the ADAA show:

Lehmann Maupin

  • paintings by Hernan Bas all sold or reserved on first day, €30,000-€200,000

Cheim Read

  • Ron Gorchov layered, shaped canvases ($120,000, two sold)

The Art Market: Fair play (FT.com)

Kehinde Wiley, Equestrian Portrait of Philip III, 2016

Judd Tully walked the floor to get these sales:

Thaddeaus Ropac

  • Artschwager’s “Rocket” from 1971 sold for $350,000
  • Robert Longo’s “Untitled (Cosmonaut Tereshkova, First Woman in Space)” from 2015, had a reserve from an undisclosed museum at $650,000, but hadn’t sold as of press time.

Miro Gallery

  • sold Kara Walker’s “For Idioms of Negro Art, #1 folk,” from 2015, at an undisclosed six figure price.

The Armory Show Opens With a Quieter Flurry of Sales (BLOUIN ARTINFO)

ArtNews grabbed these sales:

Three big Kehinde Wileys, all three are from the same series, recently made, of a similar size, and they sold quickly:

Roberts & Tilton

  • Equestrian Portrait of Prince Tommaso of Savoy-Carignan (2015) for $250,000

Galerie Daniel Templon

  • Jose Alberto de la Cruz Diaz and Luis Ninez (2016) for $250,000

Sean Kelly

  • Equestrian Portrait of Philip III (2016) for $300,000.

Sprüth Magers

  • Sterling Ruby’s big sculpture M S40-2947 (2010)went for $200,000.

Marianne Boesky

  • sold out its booth, Frank Stella’s Split Star (2015) going for $850,000.

Lisson Gallery

  • sales included a Cory Arcangel video featuring Lindsay Lohan over a pool of rippling water ($60,000)
  • a multicolored Spencer Finch light work ($50,000)

Sales, Reserves, and Prices at the 2016 Armory Show  (ARTnews)

Day two from the Armory Show:

Alan Cristea Gallery (London)

  • The gallery sold multiple works by Julian Opie, Sol LeWitt, Frank Stella, early Jim Dine pieces and works from the Josef and Anni Albers estate, which the gallery represents.

Bugada & Cargnel (Paris)

  • The gallery has sold nine of its ten Claire Tabouret paintings to multiple collectors.

Galerie Eva Presenhuber (Zurich)

  • The gallery sold a sculpture by Ugo Rondinone for $350,000.

Galerie Daniel Templon (Paris)

  • Anne-Claudia Coric, Executive Director says: “We’ve sold works by Ivan Navarro, Chiharu Shiota, Kehinde Wiley and Robert Rauschenberg. The Kehinde Wiley sold for $250,000 and we’ve sold many Shiota canvases which sell for $40,000 each and several sculptures between $20,000 and $50,000. We sold the Ivan Navarro in our booth for $150,000.”

Honor Fraser (Los Angeles)

  • The gallery reported a number of sales of works by several artists, including work by Brenna Youngblood, Ry Rockland, and Victoria Fu.

Leila Heller Gallery (New York, Dubai)

  • The gallery reported the sale of a historic self portrait by Henri Matisse. The work was acquired by a private collector in New York for a price between $75,000-$85,000.

Michel Rein (Paris, Brussels)

  • The gallery reported the sale of a Jimmie Durham sculpture for a price between $60,000-80,000 within the first few minutes of the fair. Further sales include two artworks by the young American artist, Abigail DeVille for around $15,000,

P420 (Bologna)

  • The gallery reported the sale of Irma Blank’s Radical Writings, Exercitium, 26-4-88, 1988, at $22,000 to a collector from California, as well as Irma Blank’s Ur-schrift ovvero Avant-testo, 30-9-2000, at $35,000 to a collector from Miami.

Timothy Taylor Gallery (London)

  • The gallery reported sales of Richard Patterson pieces, including Christina with Dutch Door (2015) at $100,000 and Dr. Soaper (2015) at $250,000.

 

Marilyn Minter

Salon94 at ADAA

  • early paintings by Marilyn Minter was more than two thirds sold out.  Several of the paintings ranging in price from $30,000 to $160,000 sparked fierce competition during the fair’s VIP opening.

Bloomberg’s Katya Kazakina had this mix of sales:

Danese/Corey gallery

  • sold a majestic life-size sculpture of a horse by Deborah Butterfield, priced at $425,000.

Salon 94 gallery

  • seven paintings by Marilyn Minter at between $30,000 and $160,000.

11R gallery

  • placed three works by New York artist Mika Tajima, each at $18,000.

At the ADAA, Artsy recorded these sales:

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery

  • a $450k sale of one of their Beauford Delaney paintings

Lehmann Maupin

  • “strong sales throughout the preview” on paintings by Hernan Bas, which range from $30k–200k each

Betty Cunningham

  • two Bill Traylor works, each priced over $100k, had sold

As Slowing Art Market Talk Continues, ADAA Art Show Changes the Conversation (Artsy)
Judith Benhamou-Huet had this sales information:

Paris gallery Bugada-Cargnel

  • sold (for between 7,000 and 56,000 euros) five canvases by the French painter Claire Tabouret (born in 1981) who currently lives in Los Angeles. Last year she was shown in the permanent collection of the Pinault Foundation in Venice.

The Armory Show New York : depression or no depression?  (JBH)

The Armory Show issued these sales late on Wednesday:
Marianne Boesky (New York)

  • sale of three paintings by Dashiell Manley priced between $20,000- $30,000.
Blain Southern (London, Berlin)
  • Sales included Bosco Sodi and Marius Bercea
Cardi Gallery (Milan, London)
  • three works by Pino Pinelli for $30,000 – $85,000
James Cohan (New York, Shanghai)
  • a large work by African artist, Elias Sime, within the first hour of opening.
Sean Kelly Gallery (New York)
  • Owner, Sean Kelly reports: “Works by Jose Dávila are flying out the door. Our Kehinde Wiley sculpture sold for $375,000 and the painting on the outside wall also by Wiley for $375,000.”
Mazzolani (Turin, London)
  • The gallery reported a range of sales from  $40,000 for works by Nunzio to $700,000 Alberto Burri.
Victoria Miro (London)
  • The gallery reported placing new museum acquisitions — a newly completed Njideka Akunyili Crosby work and a key Kara Walker piece, For Idioms of Negro Art, #1 folk, 2015.
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery (New York)
  • sales included two works on paper by Alma Thomas and a major painting by Charmion von Wiegand, a personal friend of Mondrian.
Spruth Magers (Berlin, London, Los Angeles)
  • Sales included a Sterling Ruby at $175,000.
Stevenson Gallery (Cape Town, Johannesburg)
  • The gallery reported selling out of their Zaneli Muholi edition.
Upstream Gallery (Amsterdam)
  • The gallery reported a sold out booth within the first hour of the VIP Preview Day.

David Zwirner (New York, London)

  • The gallery reported works sold by Wolfgang Tillmans, with multiple reserves including Carol Bove, Suzan Frecon, Yayoi Kusama, Sherrie Levine, Oscar Murillo, Michael Riedel.

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