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The Financial Times reported these sales:
Donald Ellis
- Ancient pieces, including an ivory sculpture of a female figure dated between 500BC and 200AD sold for $1.2m
Clearing
- a 2017 work by Harold Ancart for $25,000 to Frank Cohen
Kate MacGarry
- solo booth of works by Patricia Treib sold out (£17,500 each).
The Melanie Gerlis added this sale in her regular column:
David Zwirner
- Carol Bove’s stainless steel “Eros” (2017) priced at $750,000
James Tarmy had these sales on Bloomberg’s site:
Luhring Augustine
- solo show of Jeremy Moon’s paintings, sculptures, and drawings which were priced between $125,000 and $150,000. One painting had sold and a sculpture, priced at $50,000, while multiple other works had been placed on reserve
The New York Times’s Scott Reyburn had this sale:
Waddington Custot
- Peter Blake, “Roxy Roxy,” priced at £290,000, was among five early sales
Anna Louie Susman had these sales on Artsy:
Lévy Gorvy
- a sculpture by Calder
- a significant work on paper by Frank Stella
- Devotion no. 1 (1955), a rare early work on paper by Agnes Martin
- Distant Mist (1998) for $585,000, a pale, large, and lovely painting by Pat Steir
Alison Jacques
- one of Juergen Teller’s photo of an adorable wet dog, Pettitoe, Suffolk (2011), at £28,000 each
- a couple of paintings (Rose and Painter, 1987, and Open Book and Blue Dishes, 1984) by Roy Oxlade for £25,000 each
- A group of works by Maria Bartuszová were sold in the range of €50,000 to €150,000
- two paintings by Dorothea Tanning went for $220,000 and $80,000
- A red-and-orange panel by Sheila Hicks, similar to the one in the booth, sold for $150,000
Lisson Gallery
- 10 to 12 works including $21,000 for Laure Prouvost’s Metal Woman looking higher (2017)
- $1.5 million for Carmen Herrera’s Blanco y Verde(1962), which sold to a U.S. collection
- one of Daniel Buren’s striped canvases, Peinture acrylique blanche sur tissu rayé blanc et bleu (1974), with an asking price of $350,000
- Constellation E (1968) by Leon Polk Smith sold with an asking price of $250,000
David Zwirner
- a new Kerry James Marshall painting, Untitled (Two Eggs Over Medium, Sausage, Hash Browns, Whole Wheat Toast), went to an important European Foundation
- Himalayan streamers (2017) by Oscar Murillo for $400,000
- Baroque (2017) by Luc Tuymans for $900,000
- Thunderhead (Spread) (1978) by Robert Rauschenberg sold for over $1 million
- A Josef Albers painting sold for $2 million
- A John McCracken sold for $1.5 million
- a couple of Giorgio Morandi paintings for $1.5m
Thaddaeus Ropac
- Rauschenberg’s Glut in Jest (1987) for $1.1 million
- a work by young British artist Oliver Beer, for £35,000.
Skarstedt Gallery
- A Cindy Sherman sold with an asking price of $850,000
- one of Yves Klein’s “fire” paintings, for which the gallery was asking $950,000
- Works by Martin Barré, Kippenberger, and Condo also sold
Acquavella Galleries
- sold a Fernand Léger, Les Constructeurs avec arbre (1949–50), to an American collector for $14 million
Tornabuoni
- sold a Dorazio to an important American collector
- an Enrico Castellani to a French collector
- a Scheggi
- works from the Giorgio di Chirico
Zeno X
- a Tuymans painting, Presence (2017), to a Brazilian collector for over €1 million,
- Jack Whitten’s painting Clocking for Stanley Kubrick (1999), an homage to the director
- wood and pressed-flower works by young emerging artist Grace Schwindt
- pieces by the Romanian artist Mircea Suciu
Gypsum Gallery
- three paintings by Tamara Al Samerraei sold for between €7,500 and €8,500 each
The Art Newspaper had this sale:
Sprüth Magers
- Jenny Holzer, whose LED work Survival (1989) sold for $375,000
Day Two
Hauser + Wirth
At Masters, sales included
- a large grey marble sculpture by Louise Bourgeois, placed in an Asian Foundation for USD 4,500,000
- a major David Smith sculpture for USD 4,000,000
At Frieze London, a number of works sold from the gallery’s ‘BRONZE AGE’ presentation including
- two Rashid Johnson panel works for USD 125,000
- a Martin Creed sculpture for USD 75,000
- a piece of jewellery by Louise Bourgeois for USD 75,000
- a Subodh Gupta sculpture for EUR 30,000
Day One
According to Artnews’s Nate Freeman:
David Zwirner
- Jeff Koons’s Gazing Ball (Giotto the Kiss of Judas), 2015–16, had sold for $2.75 million
- Another Koons, Gazing Ball (Little Boy), 2013, went for $600,000
- Wolfgang Tillmans four chromogenic prints to be sold as a set for $220,000.
Canada gallery
- sold work by Sarah Braman in the range of $35,000.
Jack Shainman
- sold Kerry James Marshall’s Untitled (Bathers), 2017, for $875,000
Nahmad Contemporary
- sold a work by Daniel Buren, Enamel Paint on Cotton Canvas (1965), for €1.5 million ($1.76 million)
- had a reserve on a Philip Guston priced close to eight figures.
Galleries self-reported these sales:
Lehmann Maupin (stand A3) reports strong sales of the latest works by Korean artist Lee Bul, the primary focus of the gallery’s booth this year, to collectors from Korea, London, and Germany.
- One of the latest works from her Perdu series sold in the range of $125,000-$175,000 USD
- two Untitled (Willing To Be Vulnerable) mother-of-pearl on velvet works sold in the range of $100,000-$150,000 USD
- a smaller panel of hair, crystal, and pigmented ink on leather sold in the range of $50,000-$100,000 USD
Other sold works on the booth include
- a new painting by Angel Otero (whose work will be the focus of a solo exhibition at The Bronx Museum of Art, opening October 25th) which sold in the range of $50,000-$75,000 USD
- a fabric stove work by Do Ho Suh. Suh will have a solo exhibition at the Bildmuseet in Sweden, opening November
Maureen Paley (Booth D16)
- Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Rubber Coated Steel, 2016 Video, HD, Sound Sold to Tate Modern following Abu Hamdan’s winning the Abraaj Group Prize
- Wolfgang Tillmans Shooting cloud, 1999 Inkjet print mounted on Dibond in artists frame 78 ¾ x 57 1/8 inches Sold
- Rebecca Warren Tuiler, 2017 Hand-painted bronze on painted MDF plinth Bronze: 172 x 26 x 28cm, Plinth: 40 x 26 x 26 cm 1 of 2 casts, each painted uniquely + 1 artist’s copy Sold to a private collector
Pace Gallery
- 16 works on paper by American artist Loie Hollowell, which sold out within minutes. Pace announced representation of Hollowell in January 2017 and is debuting her work for the first time in the UK at the fair. Pace is also currently presenting a solo show of Hollowell’s work at its gallery in Palo Alto, which is completely sold out. The 16 works that sold at Frieze were each priced at 6,500 USD and sold to a mix of American, European and Asian collectors
- a 2012 painting by Keith Coventry for 60,000 GBP
- a large oil on canvas painting by Wang Guangle priced at 280,000 USD
- a fabric work by Brent Wadden at 60,000 USD
- a copper wire on gesso panel painting by Prabhavathi Meppayil for 60,000 USD
- an oil on canvas painting by Nathalie du Pasquier, who had a recent solo show at Pace London for 14,000 Euro; and a 4-channel digital work by teamLab for 75,000 USD.
At Frieze Masters, Pace presented a solo booth dedicated to Saul Steinberg (1914 – 1999), featuring more than 50 works spanning his entire career
- The booth featured sculptures, mixed-media works and works on paper which sold in the range of 3,500 to 60,000 USD
David Kordansky Gallery (E1)
- Nearly the entire booth which features new paintings and sculptures by Texas-born, Los Angeles-based artist Will Boone, has already sold, with all works selling in the range of $25,000 USD to $55,000 USD. Boone will also have a solo exhibition at the gallery next summer, 2018
- The Financial Times identified the Frank Cohen as a buyer of one of the Boone works
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac on the first day of Frieze London, 04.10.17, included:
- Robert Rauschenberg, Orange Squeeze (Urban Bourbon), 1992, acrylic on enamelled aluminium, 308 x 12.4 cm (121.26 x 49.02 in), Sold for: $1.5 million USD
- Georg Baselitz, Zero Mobil, 2014, Copper patinated, 106kg., 85.5 x 283 x 77 cm, (33.6 x 111.4 x 30.3 in), Edition 2 of 3, Sold for: €1.1 million Euro
- Sigmar Polke, Laterna Magica, 1988-96, various lacquers on transparent polyester fabric, painted on both sides, 130 x 150 cm (51.8 x 59.06 in), Sold for: $2.5 million USD
- a Richard Artschwager triptych for USD 2,800,000
- a Louise Bourgeois sculpture for USD 2,600,000
- a seven-piece stainless steel sculpture by Fausto Melotti, sold to an Asian Foundation for EUR 220,000
- a Marcel Duchamp for EUR 85,000a
- EUR 9,000 ceramic by the same artist
- a 1962 work on canvas by Gutai-artist Takesada Matsutani for USD 80,000 to a US private collection
- small Josephsohn sculpture for CHF 50,000.
- a major bronze sculpture by Hans Arp for USD 1,100,000, sold to a private collection in Los Angeles
- a work by Subodh Gupta for EUR 150,000
- a bronze panel by Rashid Johnson for USD 125,000
- a Martin Creed sculpture for USD 75,000
- a range of smaller-scale works including two Marcel Duchamp editions
Several fairgoers contributed these sales:
At Zwirner, fairgoers report a $2m Josef Albers and a Yayoi Kusama selling in the first 10 minutes.
At Gagosian, a patron saw a Twombly with an $800k asking price sell.
Judith Benhamou-Huet says David Zwirner sold this Oscar Murillo for $400k off the booth.