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.
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)
