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Art Brussels Sales Report

April 25, 2017 by Marion Maneker

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Our comprehensive report of sales made during Art Brussels 2017 is available to AMMpro subscribers. 

The NYTimes’s Scott Reyburn had these sales in Brussels:

Clearing,

  • a colorful 2017 pastel abstract, “Untitled,” by the Los Angeles-based artist Aaron Garber-Maikovska, for $25,000

Approach gallery

  • Dutch conceptual artist Germaine Kruip’s  “Kannadi,” a 2017 relief sculpture incorporating geometric metal mirrors made for religious rituals in southern India found a buyer at €40,000

The Hole

  • politically charged pastel drawings by the Los Angeles artist Eric Yahnker collectively titled “Alternative Fiction,” a study of a white cat smoking a pipe, with the Magritte-inspired title, “This Is Not A Cat Smoking A Pipe” sold to Belgian collectors for €12,000 each.

Xavier Hufkens

  • One big-ticket sale was a 1969 black-and-white stripe abstract by the French artist Daniel Buren sold to a Belgian collector for €285,000.

Brussels Shines a Spotlight on the Value of Regional Art Fairs  (The New York Times)

Artsy had these sales:

Robilant + Voena

  • sold a painting by Julian Schnabel to a Belgian collector for around £500,000

Galerie Mitterrand

  • sold a 1967 work from a solo booth of Niki de Saint Phalle for between €150,000–€200,000

Tina Kim Gallery

  • sold a painting by Dansaekhwa artist Ha Chong-Hyun for €180,000–€200,000

Galerie Lelong

  • placed a large painting by Günther Förg with a local collector for north of €250,000
  • a painting by 2016 Marcel Duchamp Prize nominee Barthélémy Toguo for €45,000
  • a sculpture by David Nash for €22,000, among other works.

Rodolphe Janssen

  • sold a large oil on linen painting by Sean Landers for $95,000
  • five bronze and marble works by Sam Moyer for $9,000 apiece
  • a large painting by Sanam Khatibi for €20,000
  • a sculpture by Thomas Lerooy for €28,000
  • five woodcuts by Gert & Uwe Tobias for between €20,000–€43,000
  • seven works by Léon Wuidar from the fair’s Rediscovery sector for €4,000–€12,000 apiece.

Meessen de Clercq

  • sold a work by Thu Van Tran for around €24,000, ahead of the artist’s upcoming participation in the Venice Biennale
  • multiple works by Claudio Parmiggiani for between €50,000 and €100,000
  • several pieces by José María Sicilia for €10,000–€35,000
  • several works for €4,000–€15,000 by Benoît Maire, who won Art Brussels’s Solo booth prize.

Timothy Taylor

  • sold works on paper by Eddie Martinez
  • a new etching by Volker Hüller
  • work by Eduardo Terrazas on the range of $3,500–$40,000

Steve Turner

  • sold four works by Rasgado for $12,500, plust two larger works by the artist for $30,000
  • a woven work by Diedrick Brackens for $4,000
  • a video work by Emilie Brout & Maxime Marion for $3,800

Copperfield Gallery

  • a work by Natalie Reusser which he sold for under €10,000
  • a piece by Eric van Hove he noted was purchased by a museum.

Sorry We’re Closed

  • a work by Belgian expressionist painter Bram Bogart sold for €92,000
  • two totems by Belgian ceramicist Eric Croes for €2,500 apiece
  • Josh Sperling had 41 colorful paintings scattered across the booth’s wall, 30 were sold for €1,700–€5,200 apiece

Axel Vervoordt

  • placed two graphite and pencil drawings by Belgian artist Lucia Bru for around €10,000
  • a painting by young Belgian artist Renato Nicolodi for €20,000–€25,000
  • a Michel Mouffe work for around €50,000
  • all three editions of Spanish-Belgian artist Angel Vergara’s video work

What Sold at Art Brussels (Artsy)

Jablonka Maruani Mercier

  • sold more than 10 works on the first day for between $75,000 – $100,000
  • including Hank Willis Thomas’ speech bubble sculpture
  • a large bronze by Jaume Plensa at Galerie Lelong (Paris, New York) for €340,000.

Meessen De Clercq

  • in excess of 30 sales with works priced between €2,000 – €60,000

Galerie Greta Meert

  • sold works from artists in their ‘young programme’, including a number of works by Edith Dekyndt,
  • two paintings by Koen van den Broek for €50,000 each

Galerie Rodolphe Janssen

  •  a work by Sam Moyer for $35,000 to an important private collection in Brussels.

Lyles & King

  • sold nine paintings by Chris Hood
  • two major sculptures by Phillip Birch, together ranging €6,000 – €16,000

New Art Centre

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

Galerie Ron Mandos

  • booth installation by celebrated Dutch artist Levi van Veluw sold for €45,000

Timothy Taylor

  • sold two works by Eduardo Terrazas at $36,000 a piece.

beta pictoris gallery

  • Photographs by Barbara and Michael Leisgen sold well to international collectors
  • including the artists’ 1972 work Eintauchen to a New York collector for €18,000

Galerie Steinek

  • Sold Renate Bertlmann works to a European museum and many privaate collections for prices between €2,000 and €34,000, as well as receiving interest from international curators.

 

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Artsy reported these sales:

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 Turnbullwith an Australian collector for around €200,000,

Jablonka Maruani Mercier

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

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
  • Iván 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.

Geukens & De Vil

  • Finbar Ward’s sculpture 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, one of an edition of three sold for €60,000

Lyles & King

  • sold 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, an untitled work by the artist from 1963—made with ceramics and car paint to comment on both historical and modernized Japan—had sold for €150,00–200,000.

Sorry We’re Closed

  • 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
  • nine bronze stools by Eric Croes for €5,000 apiece, among others, all to European collectors

Rodolphe Janssen 

  • 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

What Sold at Art Brussels (Artsy)

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