Our running tally of sales reported during ArtBasel Hong Kong 2017 is available to AMMpro subscribers. 

Artsy gathered these sales:

Daniel Templon

• Chiharu Shiota’s State of Being (Children’s Dress) (2017) sold for €35,000
• pieces from her 2016 “Skin” series of white canvases laced with red thread sold for between €10,000 and €70,000, depending on size
• Works by Indian artist Jitish Kallat, such as Wind Study (the hour of the day of the month of the season) 23, (2015), made with burnt adhesive and graphite on Arches paper, sold for between $40,000 and $80,000, while his Instagram-friendly sculpture Syzygy (2017) sold for $75,000

Liang Gallery

• sold two works at around $32,000 and $48,000 by Chao Chung-hsiang, a Chinese artist who combined traditional ink painting with gestures inspired by Abstract Expressionism

Goodman Gallery

• sold two editions of Sue Williamson’s montage made from inks on fiber-based paper No Time to Stroll, Hong Kong (2013) for $4,000 each, as well as a large ink painting
• a new video work by South African artist William Kentridge

Esther Schipper gallery

• placed Philippe Parreno’s 56 Flickering Lights (2013)
• all three of Tomás Saraceno’s “Cloud” sculptures they brought to the fair
• one work by Pierre Huyghe, Timekeeper (Drill Core), Palais de Tokyo (2016), a chunk of the wall of the Palais de Tokyo sanded down by the artist to reveal the layers of paint that have backgrounded the institution’s shows

Galeria Nara Roesler

• sold four works by Vik Muniz, ranging from $17,000 to $18,000
• two by Xavier Veilhan, including a wood and plywood sculpture Tony (2015) for €35,000.00.

Mendes Wood

• Solange Pessoa 10 editions of her untitled bronze work from 2000 sold for $10,000 each, as well as three oil on canvas paintings sold for $20,000 each. An Asian institution also snapped up a series of six soapstone sculptures by the artist.

What Sold at Art Basel in Hong Kong (Artsy)

Melanie Gerlis had these sales in the Financial Times providing some titles for previously announced sales:

Thaddaeus Ropac

• Tony Cragg’s stainless steel “Drawn Figure” (2015) for €650,000
• Gilbert & George’s “Boyhood” (2013) for £125,000
• These were predominantly to Asian buyers, but throughout the fair there was less dependence on mainland China

Daniel Templon

• a small Chiharu Shiota thread work, “State of Being (Children’s Dress)” (2017, €35,000).

An appetite for Asia (Financial Times)

The Financial Times had these sales:

Sadie Coles 

• an abstract oil painting by Rudolf Stingl in red and silver oil and enamel was snapped up for US$1.2m
• a trio of brightly painted stone sculptures by Ugo Rondinone (US$75,000-US$150,000 each)
• canvas by Borna Sammak
• a collage painting by Laura Owens

Timothy Taylor

• Eddie Martinez sold for US$25,000
• a Sean Scully bought over the phone for an unnamed price
• Both buyers are Chinese

Amna Naqvi

• sold the first works by Pakistani artists, Imran Qureshi and Aisha Khalid, to M +
• Naqvi is also guarding one of the fair’s most tempting acquisitions: a suite of ethereal poems and beguiling ink drawings by Fazal Rivi priced at just US$1,100 each. Two have already sold.

Art Basel Hong Kong 2017: serious collectors and strong sales (Finacial Times)

Tina Keng Gallery (Taipei, Beijing)

Tina Keng Gallery has already sold out of 95% of the works they’ve brought to the fair. 

• Wang Huaiqing Chinese Emperor-8, 2016 Oil on canvas 200 x 135 cm Sold for USD 3.5 million
• Peng Wei Nothing New Under the Sun, 2017 Ink on rice paper, album 77 x 258 cm Sold for RMB 1.3 million
• Four Peng Wei works sold together for RMB 800,000  (Beginning of Spring, 2017 Ink on rice paper, album 21 x 144 cm; Mid-Autumn Festival, 2016 Ink on rice paper, album 15 x 144 cm; Winter Solstice, 2017 Ink on rice paper, album 21 x 144 cm; Dragon Boat Festival, 2016 Ink on rice paper, album 15.5 x 144 cm)
• Su Xiaobai, Immersed, 2016 Oil, lacquer, linen, emulsion, and wood 187 x 182 x 16cm Sold for RMB 1.5 Million
• Su Xiaobai, One Ray, 2016 Oil, lacquer, linen, emulsion, and wood 123 x 115 x 16cm Sold for RMB 800,000
• Three Su Xiaobai sold together at RMB 3.45 Million, (Lucent-1, 2016 Oil, lacquer, linen, emulsion, and wood 163 x 155 x 18cm; Lucent-2, 2016 Oil, lacquer, linen, emulsion, and wood 163 x 155 x 18cm; Lucent-3, 2016 Oil, lacquer, linen, emulsion, and wood 163 x 155 x 18cm)

Galleria Continua (San Gimignano, Beijing, Les Moulins, Habana)

•  Sold 3 Antony Gormley works, one of them for GBP 350,000
• Ai Weiwei Bird (2015) Sold for EUR 60,000

Galerie Gmurzynska (St Moritz, Zug, Zurich)

• Sold 2 Wifredo Lam works, each for USD 100,000
• Fernando Botero Sold for USD 600,000

Alfonso Artiaco (Naples)

• Sol LeWitt Sold a work for between USD 500,000 – 800,000

Skarstedt (New York, London)

• Keith Haring Spaceship with Ray, August 29, 1980 Sold for USD 550,000
• George Condo Purple and Yellow Head, 2017 Sold for USD 450,000

David Zwirner (New York, London)

• Neo Rauch Stillstand, 2014 Oil on paper 160 x 208 x 4.6 cm Sold for EUR 440,000
• Wolfgang Tillmans haircut, 2007 Inkjet print on paper mounted on Dibond aluminum in artist’s frame 205.7 x 145.1 x 6 cm Sold for USD 100,000
• Raoul De Keyser Aquatic, 2009 Oil and gesso on canvas 24.3 x 43 cm Sold for USD 120,000

Sean Kelly (New York)

• Shazia Sikander Disruption as Rapture, 2016 HD video animation with 7.1 surround sound Sold for USD 175,000
• Rebecca Horn One work sold for EUR 170,00 4 works for sold for EUR 20,000 each
• Shazia Sikander The Six Springing Spheres #1, 2016 Sold for USD 120,000
• Sun Xun The Time Vivarium – 20, 2014 Sold for USD 70,000
• Sun Xun The Time Vivarium – 17, 2014 Sold for USD 70,000
• Hugo McCloud 4 works by the artist sold for USD 40,000 each

Hakgojae (Seoul, Shanghai)

• A work by Nam June Paik was sold to a Chinese collector for approx. USD 150,000.

Victoria Miro (London)

• Sold 12 works by artists including: Sarah Sze, NS Harsha, Do Ho Suh and Yoyoi Kusama; all works to collections in Asia

Lisson Gallery (London, New York, Milan)

• Ryan Gander On Slow Obliteration, or The game begins, 2017 15mm white flip-dots. 12 panels. Installed dimensions 130.3 x 86.1 x 7.6cm Sold for GBP 60,000 – 120,000 to Asian collector for her private collection
• works by Anish Kapoor, Ryan Gander, Julian Opie, and Shirazeh Houshiary in the range of GBP 50,000 – 750,000 to a mixture of Asian and international collectors.

PKM Gallery (Seoul)

• Yun Hyong-keun, Umber-Blue, 1975 Sold for USD 180,000

Hauser & Wirth (Zurich, London, Somerset, New York, Los Angeles)

• Louise Bourgeois Sold a group of drawings for seven-figures as well as three sculptures by the artist, all into mainland Chinese collections
• Fausto Melotti Sold a wall work into a mainland Chinese collection.

Long March Space (Beijing)

• Wu Shanzhuan 吴山专, Little Fat Flesh Perimeter Requiem 2015 May 21《小肥姘周线安魂曲_2015.05.21, 2015  Sold for USD 157,000 
• Wu Shanzhuan & Inga Svala Thorsdottir 吳山專&英格.斯瓦拉–托斯朵蒂爾, “Mona Lisa” is given by “The Illuminating Gas”《“蒙娜丽莎”被“照明煤气“给予”》，2011  Airbrush colour on canvas 140 x 190 cm Sold for USD 88,000
• Wu Shanzhuan 吴山专 , News Week, the Text Covered by a Red, 1991 Acrylic on printed paper 27 x 41 cm Sold for USD 37,000
• Wang Jianwei 汪建伟, Approach Far No.2《接近远 No.2》, 2016  Acrylic and oil on canvas 200 x 200 cm Sold for RMB 686,000
• Wang Jianwei 汪建伟 Another No.8《另一个 No.8》, 2016 Acrylic and oil on canvas 200 x 150 cm Sold for USD 88,000
• Wang Jianwei 汪建伟, More No.17《更多 No.17》, 2016     Acrylic and oil on canvas 220 x 147 cm Sold for RMB 630,000

Kukje Gallery / Tina Kim Gallery (Seoul, New York)

• Lee Ufan, Dialogue, 2010 Oil on canvas Sold for approx. USD 275,000 – 320,000
• Haegue Yang, Crystal Fan Dance – Trustworthy #309, 2016 Various envelope security patterns, graph paper, framed  Sold for approx. USD 6,000 – 11,000
• Kim Yong-Ik, Thinner…and Thinner…#16-87, 2016 Mixed media on canvas Sold for approx. USD 26,000 – 31,000
• Jean-Michel Othoniel, Collier Émeraude et Cobalt, 2016 Murano glass, stainless steel Sold for approx. USD 48,000 – 53,000
• Kwon Young-Woo, Untitled, 1988 Gouache, Chinese ink on Korean paper Sold for approx. USD 45,000 – 50,000

Sadie Coles HQ (London)

• Jordan Wolfson, Real Violence, 2017 Virtual Reality installation Sold for USD 85,000
• Michele Abeles three paintings, sold for USD 20,000 in the first hours of the show
• Darren Bader, Video work Sold for USD 35,000
• Ugo Rondinone, Three sculptures, each sold for between USD 70,000-150,000

Galerie Eigen + Art (Berlin, Leipzig)

• Sold 3 pieces by Tim Eitel, including A Painter for EUR 125,000
• Sold a Neo Rauch work for EUR 440,000

Galerie Nathalie Obadia (Paris, Brussels)

• Sold vintage Agnes Varda works from 1957 for approximately USD 50,000
• Sold a Lu Chao work for USD 30,000 
• Sold early works by Manuel Ocampo for USD 80,000 
• Sold a sculpture by Rina Banerjee for USD 60,000

König Galerie (Berlin)

• Camille Henrot  Untitled (11 Animals that Mate for Life), 2016 Sold a painting for asking price of EUR 90,000
• Matthias Weischer sold works for EUR 80,000 and EUR 30,000
• Alicja Kwade sold a sculpture for EUR 45,000

Clearing (New York, Brussels)

• Calvin Marcus six paintings sold for USD 38,000 each, to European, Asian and US Collectors Half of the sculptures offered sold for USD 24, 000 each, one to an Asian Collector and one to a US Collector

Rossi & Rossi (Hong Kong, London)

• Naiza Khan Armour Suit for Rani of Jhansi II, 2017 Galvanized steel, feathers, leather Sold out edition of two for USD 28,000

Meyer Riegger (Berlin, Karlsruhe)

• Sold a Daniel Knorr for EUR 35,000 (showing at Documenta)
• Sold several works by Miriam Cahn for up to EUR 70,000 (also showing at Documenta)

Ingleby Gallery (Edinburgh)

• Richard Foster sold various works for between GBP 20,000 and 50,000
• Also sold works by Charles Avery, Kevin Harman and James Hugonin

STPI (Singapore)

• Sold a number of new cyanotype works by Do Ho Suh, as well as pieces from his ‘Rubbing / Loving’ series for USD 20,000 – 35,000 to international and Asian collectors

Athena Contemporânea (Rio de Janeiro)

• Vanderlei Lopes two large pieces from different series, sold for USD 13,000 and USD 16,000 each
• Two editions of smaller pieces, sold for USD 1,500 each

Various Small Fires (Los Angeles)

•  The gallery’s solo-booth of works by Joshua Nathanson sold out on the opening day Five paintings sold to individual Asian collectors The artist’s very first large-scale sculpture was acquired by an institution in Shanghai

• Half of the Kabinett works have sold, including Meu Pé de Laranja Lima in the range of $100,000-$150,000 USD and O Canto de Sereia in the range of $150,000-$200,000 USD to collectors from Korea and the United States, with the other half on reserve
• The gallery also has also sold a work on paper by Korean artist Lee Bul,
• several pieces from Do Ho Suh’s Exit Series (both to Korean collectors)
• and has strong reserves on works by artists Teresita Fernández, Liu Wei, Liza Lou, Angel Otero, Do Ho Suh, and Mickalene Thomas

The fair provided these sales from the first day:

Sales reported at Art Basel in Hong Kong 2017 Day 1

David Zwirner (New York, London)

Luc Tuymans 

• K, 2017 Oil on canvas, 135 x 80.2 cm
• C, 2017 Oil on canvas, 138.1 x 77.1 cm
• Two of the three works that Luc Tuymans made especially for the fair sold within the first hour for USD 1.5 million each

Yayoi Kusama 草間彌生

• INFINITY-NETS COSK, 2016 Acrylic on canvas 145.5 x 145.5 cm Sold for USD 450,000

Michaël Borremans

• Mud Boy, 2017 Oil on canvas 42 x 36 cm Sold for USD 420,000

Sherrie Levine

• Small Monkey Skull, 2016 Bronze 4.4 x 9.5 x 6.4 cm Sold for USD 120,000

Hauser & Wirth (Zurich, London, Somerset, New York, Los Angeles)

Hauser & Wirth reports incredibly strong first day sales, including multi-million dollar works, with almost all pieces placed in China or Asia.

Seven figure sales include:

• a Philip Guston 1964 painting
• a large-scale painting by Mark Bradford (sold within hours of the fair)
• a Frank Auerbach 1982 painting, ‘Head of J.Y.M.’, which was placed in a Chinese private collection
• Two Fausto Melotti sculptures also sold; one into a public collection and one for EUR 220,000 to a collector in Hong Kong
• A new sculpture by Phyllida Barlow was sold for GBP 60,000 to an Asian private collection and a Barlow wall-based sculptural work was placed with a Chinese museum for GBP 150,000. A large-scale acrylic on paper by the artist was sold to an Asian private collection for GBP 120,000
• A Rashid Johnson Escape Collage sold for USD 175,000 to a Chinese collector.
• A painting by Jack Whitten, not on the booth, was placed in a public collection in Korea for USD 150,000.

Sprüth Magers (Berlin, London, Los Angeles)

• A Thomas Ruff photograph sold for USD 110,000
• A Sterling Ruby sculpture sold for USD 45,000
• A Pamela Rosenkranz painting sold for CHF 60,000
• 5 George Condo drawings sold for between USD 20,000 – 60,000 each

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac (Salzburg, Paris, London)

• Sold a Tony Cragg sculpture for EUR 650,000
• Sold a Georg Baselitz painting for EUR 360,000
• Sold a work by David Salle for USD 300,000
• Sold a work by Gilbert & George for GBP 125,000

White Cube (London, Hong Kong)

• Theaster Gates Ground Rules (black line), 2015 Wood flooring 245.1 x 609.6 cm Market price USD 700,000
• Georg Baselitz On the left, that’s a cushion, 2015 Oil on canvas 300 x 290 cm Market price EUR 575,000

Galerie Urs Meile (Lucerne, Beijing)

• Shao Fan  Ape Watching Waves, 2016  Ink on rice paper Sold for USD 170,000

Kukje Gallery / Tina Kim Gallery (Seoul, New York)

• Haegue Yang  Blinking Telepathy at Lunar Eclipse – Trustworthy #306, 2016 Vinyl film, various envelope security patterns, graph paper, origami paper, sandpaper, framed Sold for USD 35,000 – 50,000
• Ugo Rondinone Dritterjanuarzweitausendundsiebzehn, 2017 Acrylic on canvas Sold for USD 100,000 – 150,000
• Kim Yong-Ik  Untitled, 1992 Mixed media on canvas  Sold for USD 180,000 – 230,000
• Kim Yong-Ik  Thinner…and Thinner…#16-69, 2016  Mixed media on canvas Sold for USD 50,000 – 80,000
• Kim Yong-Ik  Erased Utopia #16-11, 2016 Mixed media on canvas Sold for USD 30,000 – 60,000
• Lee Ufan Dialogue, 2017  Oil on canvas Sold for USD 250,000 – 300,000
• Kwon Young-Woo  Untitled, 1987  Gouache, Chinese ink on Korean paper Sold for USD 230,000 – 275,000 
• Kwon Young-Woo Untitled, c. 1980s  Gouache, Chinese ink on Korean paper Sold for USD 70,000 – 100,000 Haegue Yang Engineered Wildfowl at Lunar Eclipse – Trustworthy #305, 2016 Various envelope security patterns, graph paper, sandpaper, framed Sold for USD 35,000 – 50,000

Mitchell-Innes & Nash (New York)

• Eddie Martinez Locksmith, 2016 Enamel, oil, spray paint on canvas Sold in the range of USD 50,000
• Eddie Martinez A new panting by the artist Sold in the range of USD 50,000

Waddington Custot (London)

• Chu Teh-Chun Evocations B, 1989 Oil on canvas Asking price of USD 1,450,000
• Fabienne Verdier Silencieuse Coincidence, 2012 Acrylic and mixed media on canvas Sold for USD 260,000

König Galerie (Berlin)

• Matthias Weischer Speaker I, 2016  Oil on canvas  Sold for EUR 22,000
• Alicja Kwade Hypothetisches Gebilde, 2016  Sculpture: copper, powder coated steel Sold for EUR 65,000
• Jorinde Voigt Cavallini-Algorithmus Work on Paper: ink, gold, oil crayon, pastel, pencil on paper, triptych Sold for EUR 155,000

Sullivan+Strumpf (Sydney, Singapore)

• Sanne Mestrom The Bathers, 2017 (Encounters sector) Four sculptures, dimensions variable  Sold for between USD 100,000 – 200,000 Sold to a private collector from Australia 

Nanzuka (Tokyo)

Keiichi Tanaami 田名網敬一 

• Infinite Universe, 2017 Pigmented ink, acrylic silkscreen medium, crashed glass, glitter acrylic paint, acrylic paint on canvas 202(H) x 400(W) x 4(D) cm (quadriptych) Sold for around USD 200,000 Sold to a Hong Kong-based collector

Hajime Sorayama 空山基

• Sexy Robot _life size seating model_A, 2017 Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene resin, urethane resins, aluminum, silver and gold plating air brush paint, LED neon light by power supply system 164(H) x 75(W) x 60(D) cm Sold for around USD 150,000 Sold to a Hong Kong-based collector

Kavi Gupta (Chicago)

• A McArthur Binion painting Sold for USD 20,000 – 45,000
• A Clare Rojas painting Sold for USD 10,000 – 24,000

Pilar Corrias (London)

• Gerasmos Floratos  International fem boy, 2017  Oil and acrylic on canvas  Sold for approx. USD 20,000  Two works by the artist sold
• Tala Madani  Thrown Light, 2017  Oil on linen  Sold for USD 70,000

Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder (Vienna)

• Katharina Grosse Untitled, 2016  Acrylic on canvas  Sold for EUR 80,000
• Three Daniel Knorr works ranging from EUR 12,000 – 36,000

Paul Kasmin Gallery (New York) 

• Ivan Navarro Duct, 2016 Neon light, plywood glass, mirror, one-way mirror and elective current
• Ivan Navarro Burden (Lotte World Tower), 2011 Neon, wood, paint, Plexiglass, mirror, one-way mirror and electric energy

GallerySKE (Bangalore, New Delhi)

• Astha Butail turning towards pure white, 2016-2017 Handloom cotton muslin, acrylic on archival paper, MDF, teak wood, and book  Sold to a private institution