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Art Brussels Sales Report

April 26, 2016 by Marion Maneker

Alice Neel, Vivienne Wechter, 1965
Alice Neel, Vivienne Wechter, 1965

Colin Gleadell put out some sales from Art Brussels today:

Copperfield gallery

  • Sculptures by Alastair Mackie priced from £6,000 to £18,000 each, all seven on the stand sold, one to the Eres Foundation in Munich.

MOT gallery

  • sold out of paintings by another 30-something British artist, Simon Mathers, priced from €3,000 to €12,000
  • The gallery also sold out of works by 2013 Turner Prize winner, Laure Prouvost, priced from €10,000 to €70,000.

Market News: looking ahead to New York’s spring sales  (Telegraph)

Artsy’s Molly Gottschalk did yeoman’s service with this report from the fair:

Galerie Daniel Templon

  • a work by Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota with a collector for €10,000–50,000.
  • Four works by new gallery addition Senegalese artist Omar Ba were sold, on the range of €25,000–30,000. I
  • van Navarro’s neon sculptures were a particular hit, the Chilean artist’s Pink Electric Chair (2006) finding its way into a private collection in Europe for $55,000–135,000.

Xavier Hufkens

  • Alice Neel’s Vivienne Wechter (1965) with a European collection for $550,000 in the fair’s first two hours.
  • a mask by Thomas Houseago for $160,000
  • a sculpture by Antony Gormley for £175,000
  • a Walter Swennen painting, Transformations (2016), for €40,000
  • a pair of Harold Ancart paintings for $30,000 apiece.

New Art Center

  •  a sculptural work by William Turnbull with an Australian collector for around €200,000

Jablonka Maruani Mercier

  • sold a George Shaw triptych for €50,000–100,000.

Geukens & De Vil

  • Finbar Ward, The Wedge (2016) had just sold to one of the most important collectors in Belgium for €10,000.

MOT International

  • Laure Prouvost’s 2015 tapestry, Swallow me, From Italy to Flander, a tapestry. The first in an edition of three the piece sold for €60,000 in the fair’s first half hour.

Lyles and King

  • Chris Hood to a German couple for €9,500., among 8 of 10 paintings of varying size by Hood, for between $6,000 and $16,000.
  • Phillip Birch, Interventionist Agent #2 (Constantine)(2016), which sold to a Belgian private collection for $8,500

Axel Vervoordt Gallery

  • Yuko Nasaka, one of the only female artists from the Gutai movement, an untitled work by the artist from 1963 sold for €150,00–200,000

Sorry We’re Closed

  • works predominantly on the range of €5,000–20,000.
  • sold two of three Tony Matelli painted bronze “Weed” sculptures for €14,000
  • a large painting by New York painter Gerasimos Floratos for €10,000
  • four tapestries by Yann Gerstberger for €12,000
  • and nine bronze stools by Eric Croes for €5,000 apiece, among others, all to European collectors.

Rodolphe Janssen

  • sold two paintings by Cologne-based, Romanian brothers Gert & Uwe Tobias for €42,000 apiece
  • Davide Balula’s huge triptych Burnt Painting, Imprint of the Burnt Painting (Superimposed Blinds) (2016; €35,000)
  • two of Dan McCarthy’s playful smiling vases for €25,000, among others; all to predominantly Belgian collectors.

What Sold at Art Brussels

Georgina Adam had these sales from the Independent fair in the Financial Times:

Jean-David Cahn

  • sold four pieces, including a Hallstatt bowl tagged at €4,000.

Maureen Paley

  • a painting by Michael Krebber on Paley’s stand, which went to a Belgian collector ($75,000)
  • a number of paintings by Sadie Laska shown by the US dealer Canada at prices between $4,000 and $14,000.

Wilfried Lentz

  • found a European collector for Doug Ashford’s “Next Day (2015-16)” — a reprinting of all the pages of the September 12 2001 issue of the New York Times overlaid with coloured abstracts (€50,000).

The Art Market: Fair with a new look  (FT.com)

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