Richard T Zhang went to the Shanghai fairs and filed this report for us:
Perrotin
- Takashi Murakami, Untitled, 2017, 150 x 300 x 50.8 cm, 1.2million USD
- Takashi Murakami, Untitled (In collaboration with Madsaki), 2017, 141 x 120 cm, 950.000 USD
- Kaws ( NTY, 2017, Largeur : 213.4 cm / Width : 84 in) and Izumi Kato
Galleria Continua
- State XVII, Antony Gormley, One Cast iron, 2012, 192 x 42 x 35.5 cm, 350.000 GBP
- 2 Large-size Photographies from Carlos Garaicoa, 320.000 CNY
Shanghart
- Painting from Yu Youhan “20101101”, 3.500.000 CNY
- Painting from Ding Yi, “Appearance of Crosses, 2015-B18” 500.000 CNY
- Sculpture from Lu Lei, “Night”, 400.000 CNY
Hive Art Center
- 15 pieces sold, including
- Wang Qing, Block, 2015, Mixed media on paper mount on canvas, 200×200cm, 120.000 CNY
- Leng Guangmin, Directional Bending, 2017, Mixed media on canvas, (200~240)×160cm 171.000 CNY
- Gong Chenyu, Display-Circus Horse, 2017, Oil on canvas, 200×200cm, 80.000 CNY
Marlborough
- Francis Bacon, “Study from the Human Body – Figure in Movement”,1982, 198cm X 147.5cm, 20 million CNY
Gallery Krinzinger
- Painting from Secudion Hernandez, 55.000 USD
Kukje/Tina Kim gallery
- Jean-Michel Othoniel, Purple Lotus, 2015, Mirrored Glass, Stainless Steel, 142cm X 135cm X 122cm, 1.6 million CNY
Cassia Besseiche(Asia) Arts Centre
- Jiang Zhi, The World is Yours，as well as Ours-B9, 62x52cm, 2015, 100.000 CNY
A+ Contemporary & Asia Art Center
- Jiang Cheng, Oil on canvas 210x170cm, 76,000 CNY
- Chen Xi , Single Layer Acrylic No.53_2017 | Acrylic on canvas, 120x100cm, 50,600CNY
- Kao Jun Honn Reflection of Li-Fong Coal, Mine 2009 | Single channel video, color, sound_38’02”, 30,000 CNY.
- Zheng Wenxin-three pieces
- Peng Yihsuan – one small work
Tokyo Galleries +BTAP
- Kishio Suga, Nature of Mutiple Sites, 2006, 20.2×14.2×21.8cm, wood, paint. 80.000 CNY
- Lin Yu Si, Night Escape, 2016, 68x90cm, ink on paper, 80.000 CNY
Madein Gallery
- Paintings by Chen Ying
- one story by artist from Lu Pingyuan
EGG Gallery
- Gei Ziyu, Lattice Series No.3, Mixed Material, 48*58cm, 2015, 30.000 CNY
- Yu Yang, I need to keep you –cut piece no 1, waste work, mix-media, 232x100x14cm, 2017, 120.000 CNY
- Liu Shuang, Hic Et Nunc, Mixed-material, 170x150x100cm, 2017, 68.000 CNY
C5 Art Center
- Jin Ningning, 3 carpet pieces at 20.000 CNY and 1 digital work at 12.000 CNY
Lucie Chang Fine Art
- three small-scale oil paintings by Morgan Xinmo Wu, from her recent Jellyfish series, are sold around CNY 65,000
- Two monochrome works by Zhiyuan Wang at CNY 30,000
Westbund
Lisson
- Anish Kapoor, Spire, 2014, Stainless steel, 1 million GBP
David Zwirner
- Mutipule Photographies by Wolfgang Tillmans from 20.000 to 100.000 USD
Sadie HQ
- 3 works by Laura Owens & Borna Sammak
Blain丨Southern
- Paintings by Jonas Burgert, price arranged at 1 million CNY
Shanghart
- 3 paintings by David Diao, from 70.000 CNY -100.000CNY
Pace
- Yoshitomo Nara, Head(eyes closed), 2017, acrylic on wood, 174.5x90cm, 450.000 USD
- One Installation by Song Dong, 50.000 USD
Lin&Lin Gallery
- Shenliang, 2017 No 3, 280.000 CNY999
Boser-Li Gallery
- 7 paintings by Huang Yuxing
- Zhang Peili, Uncertain Pleasure (II), 6-channel/12-screen video installation (PAL), silent, color, 1996
Bank
- Xubing, Background Story: The Yellow Mountain, 2017, Mix-Media/Various material behind the frosted glass. 1,600,000 CNY
Galerie Urs Melie
- 1 new painting from Wang Xingwei, 2 million CNY
Hive Art Center
- 11 works sold
- Zhou Li, Lines – The Tender Sea, 2016-2017, Mixed media on canvas, 300×400cm, 700.000 CNY
- Liang Quan, Snow Country, 2016, Ink,color and rice paper collage, 160×122cm, 420.000 CNY
- 5 edition video from Pu Yingwei, Montage of the Photos-Symptom of the memoir, 2017, HD color video, no sound, 2’25’’
Capsule Shanghai
- 10 sold pieces
- 1 piece by Sarah Faux
- 5 piece by Louis Fratino
- 1 piece by Alice Wang
- 1 piece by Doron Langberg
- 2 piece by Ivy Haldeman
Alexander Forbes had a busy weekend in Shanghai at the West Bund Art & Design fair and Art021
Art021
PIFO Dayu Yang
- three small works by Kang Haitao selling for ¥4,000 ($600) each
- a piece by Wang Shilong selling for ¥5,000 ($750)
- two small works by Enrico Bach for ¥55,000 ($8,280) + two larger works
- a large-scale piece by Haitao sold to previous clients.
High Art
- two works from the gallery’s solo presentation of Aaron Garber-Maikovska for €35,000 apiece
HDM gallery
- two watercolors by Barthélémy Toguo (Love Birds and Blue Man)
- two canvases by Chao Lu (Elsewhere No. 7 and Elsewhere No. 5)
- a mixed media piece by Wang Yi (Overlapping 2017-3).
Hauser & Wirth
- $950,000 for a work by Paul McCarthy
David Zwirner
- sold Lisa Yuskavage’s painting Scarecrow (2012) for just under $1 million
- Rose Wylie’s two-part canvas Yellow Man & Liquer Bottle (2017) for $80,000
- four new works by Lucas Arruda for between $45,000 and $55,000
- pieces by Neo Rauch, Marcel Dzama, and Raymond Pettibon.
West Bund
Edouard Malingue
- an aged mirror work by Su-Mei Tse selling for €18,000
- three paintings from a wall of eye-themed pieces in different media by Laurent Grasso for €28,000 to €80,000
- three paintings by Yuan Yuan for around €60,000 apiece
- a photograph by Jeremy Everett for $8,000
Ink Studio
- sold one work each by artists Yang Jiechang, Li Jin, and Huang Zhiyang on opening day for prices on the range of $35,000–$60,000.
Hauser & Wirth
- two sculptures by Louise Bourgeois, each for sums in the “multi-million-dollar” range
- Two Arp bronzes sold for $1.2 million and $500,000, respectively
- multiple works by Fausto Melotti for which prices were not disclosed. All of the works went to mainland Chinese collectors.
