As always, we will be aggregating all of the reported sales into one comprehensive report for subscribers (the first month of AMMpro is free and subscribers are welcome to sign up for the first month and cancel before they are billed.) Regular updates will be available briefly for free, so return to this space often:
Artnet had these sales:
David Zwirner
- Carol Bove’s sculpture, $250,000
- a Josh Smith painting $100,000
Lévy Gorvy
- Terry Adkins’s Yuma (2013), $200,000
Galeria Nara Roesler
- Daniel Buren‘s Prisms and Mirror, high reliefs, situated works 2016/7 for Sao Paulo (2017), $165,000 (approximately)
König Galerie
- Sculpture by Katharina Grosse for $141,344
Paul Kasmin Gallery
- Ivan Navarro’s Sediments (2017), $125,000
- William N. Copley’s Untitled (1964), $35,000
Galleri Nicolai Wallner
- Jose Dávila’s Joint Effort (2017), $80,000 to the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires
Blum & Poe
- Sam Durant‘s electric sign Speak The Truth Even If Your Voice Shakes (2015), $50,000
- Henry Taylor‘s Sungtae Kim – Drinking coffee in my chinatown Studio (2012)$110,000
Isla Flotante
- Mariela Scafati’s hanging painting Pesos (2017), $11,000
Bortolami Gallery
- an untitled painting from 2017 by Lesley Vance $75,000
Sean Kelly Gallery
- Sam Moyer’s stone, marble, dyed canvas mounted to MDF, Georgia (2016 ) $60,160
Elizabeth Dee Gallery
- Two paintings by Julia Wachtel, Making History and Black and White (both 2017)$45,000
Bureau
- a large oil on linen painting by Julia Rommel (2017), $42,000
Mitchell-Innes & Nash
- Keltie Ferris’s Gray Matter (2017), $35,000 (approximately)
The Box
- Several paintings from the ’80s by Judith Bernstein, $22,000 each
Rhona Hoffman Gallery
- Portraits by Nathaniel Mary Quinn, $10,000–60,000
Kalfayan Galleries
- Silvina Der Meguerditchian’s Ellis Island (2017) sold to a Chicago-based collector, $5,000
Di Donna Galleries
- A painting by Joan Miró $3 million
Tornabuoni
- A work by Paolo Scheggi from 1967 for $900,000
Kavi Gupta Gallery
- A small 1979 work on paper by Gerald Williams for $25,000–35,000
Regen Projects
- Catherine Opie’s debut photograph for her The Modernist series,$30,000
Cherry & Martin
- Several photographs by Kwame Brathwaite from the 1960s (printed 2017),$8,00
Konrad Fischer Galerie
- a Thomas Ruff photograph for $100,000:
Galerie Greta Meert
- Two editions of Thomas Struth‘s inkjet print Chemistry Fume Cabinet, the university of Edinburgh (2010) for$94,405
Jack Shainman Gallery
- Carrie Mae Weems‘s The Blues (2017), $80,000
Alison Jacques Gallery
- Two unique vintage prints by Ana Mendieta $65,000
Charlotte Burns, who works for Sotheby’s Art Agency, Partners had these sales:
Blum and Poe
- Tomoo Gokita’s Celebration Day (2017) ($60,000)
- Robert Colescott’s Magic Act II: Reverse Miscegenation (1970) ($150,000)
Tornabuoni
- a ceramic plate from 1957 by Lucio Fontana ($260,000)
- 67 Senza Titolo (1960) by Piero Dorazio ($330,000)
Van de Weghe
- sold a Warhol Flowers (1964) (around $2m)
Alexander Forbes at Artsy has these sales:
Paul Kasmin Gallery
- sold Lee Krasner’s Sun Woman 1(1957) for which it was asking $7 million.
Lévy Gorvy
- placed Ellsworth Kelly’s Sumac (1959) for between $4 million and $5 million
Eva Presenhuber
- sold Ugo Rondinone’s hunger moon (2013) for $1.2 million
Mazzoleni
- sold Alberto Burri’s Bianco Plastica B 1 (1967) for $1.5 million
Kukje Gallery
- Ha Chong-Hyun (Conjunction 17-04 and Conjunction 17-05, both 2017) for $100,000-110,000
- Kyungah Ham’s What you see is the unseen / Chandeliers for Five Cities DSC02-D-03-R(2016) for $70,000-80,000
- Haegue Yang’s Semi-dépliable-Andante (2011) for $65,000
- Minouk Lim’s Headset (2015) and Portable Keeper Unha-ri(2011) for $30,000-35,000 apiece
Freedman Fitzpatrick
- sold all of the works they had on offer by Jill Mulleady for between $6,500 and $12,000
The Financial Times has these sales:
Neugerriemschneider
- Ai Weiwei’s six-vase structure “Stacked Porcelain Vases as a Pillar” (2017)
The Master, Judd Tully, gathered these sales:
Alison Jacques Gallery
- Dorothea Tanning’s watercolor and graphite work on paper, Around Town(1986), for $50,000
Michael Werner Gallery
- Sigmar Polke double-sided painting, Transparent #8 (1988) for $1.75 million to an American collector
Anna Louie Sussman has these sales on Artsy:
Thaddaeus Ropac
- a James Rosenquist, Coenties Slip Studio (1961), for $2.7 million
- a John Chamberlain painted steel wall sculpture, Sashimi Mendoza (1979) for $1.35 million
- an Alex Katz painting of Calvin Klein models, CK 21(2017) for $550,000
- European buyers were the strongest clients on opening day, with Latin American and local Miami collectors even less of a factor
Goodman Gallery
- sold out all available paintings by young Zimbabwean artist Misheck Masamvu
- sold all three editions out of five that it had on offer of African-American artist Hank Willis Thomas’s lenticular All or Nothing/Nothing at All (2017), in which the two phrases blur into each other as you walk past
- works by two other Zimbabwean artists, Gerald Machona and Kudzanai Chiurai
Salon 94
- sold two large paintings, each around six feet by eight feet, by Aboriginal painter Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarr
The fair preview hadn’t opened yet but Anny Shaw reported the first sale of Art Basel in Miami in The Art Newspaper.
White Cube Pop-Up (Design District)
- Martin Margulies has bought Ibrahim Mahama’s Non-Orientable Nkansa (2017), an installation of wooden boxes used by shoe repairmen in Ghana, priced at €375,000.
Nate Freeman of Artnews gathered these sales:
Sadie Coles
- one of Urs Fischer’s wax statues ofartist Adam McEwen for $750,000
- a painting by Fischer for $850,000
Petzel
- sold a brand new work by Dana Schutz, Self-Exam, for $275,000
Lisson
- sold a magenta Anish Kapoor work for £600,000, or $802,000
Mnuchin
- a Mark Bradford, Fly in the Buttermilk (2002 ), in a collection for $3 million
Pace Gallery
- Willem de Kooning work on paper for $450,000
- a Sol LeWitt work on paper for $250,000
David Zwirner
- Neo Rauch’s Tank for $1.2 million
- Yayoi Kusama’s Standing at the Flower Bed (2013) for $1 million
Anna Brady at The Art Newspaper tweeted these sales:
David Kordansky Gallery
- four screenprint and oil-on-canvas works by Jonas Wood – DKG NPP #1 (2017), DKG NPP #2 (2017), Maritime NPP #8 (2017) and WKS NPP #6 – for $275,000, $275,000, $250,000 and $250,000
Hauser + Wirth
- A 2017 triptych by Mark Bradford, priced at USD 5,000,000, sold within the first hours of the fair
- The significant Bruce Nauman mobile installation has been placed with a collection in Asia for USD 9,500,000
- A Roni Horn work on paper, priced at USD 750,000, is going to a Foundation in China
- The large-scale Jack Whitten painting, priced at USD 950,000 was also sold
Lévy Gorvy
- “a strong first day. A number of paintings and sculpture, and works on paper were sold, including works by Wayne Thiebaud, Mark Grotjahn, and Roy Lichtenstein“
- works by Terry Adkins, Carol Rama and Dan Colen, artists the gallery represents, were also sold
Lehmann Maupin
- Lee Bul‘s large silk velvet wall panel Untitled (Mekamelencolia – Velvet #3 DDRG29AC) (2017) sold in the range of $225,000-$275,000 USD
- Shirazeh Houshiary‘s painting Emerge or enter (2017) sold in the range of £120,000-£130,000 GBP
- Angel Otero‘s painting Through the Stained Glass (2017) sold in the range of $80,000-$90,000 USD
- Several of Do Ho Suh’s latest thread drawings, produced at Dieu Donné, including Haunting Home (2017) and 1st Floor, 348 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011 (2017) have both sold in the range of $80,000-$120,000 USD, with the latter going to a board member of the Walker Art Center
- Another edition of Erwin Wurm‘s sculpture Short bag (2017) sold in the range of €50,000-€75,000 EUR to a trustee of the Aspen Art Museum.
- Two large paintings by Mary Corse from her latest Untitled (DNA Series) (2017) have sold in the range of $250,000-$300,000 USD
- Chinese artist Liu Wei’s two latest paintings have sold in the range of $200,000-$250,000 USD
- Liza Lou‘s latest brightly colored, woven glass bead work, Relief 2 (2017) has sold in the range of $115,000-$125,000 USD; while her larger Relief 3 (2017), sold in the range of $130,000-$140,000 USD to a trustee of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery
- Hernan Bas‘ latest painting The missing glove (2017) sold in the range of $90,000-$100,000 USD
- A stainless steel wall panel by Teresita Fernández, Blind Land (Green) has sold in the range of $225,000-$275,000 USD. F
- A new painting by OSGEMEOS, titled Love is Everything (2017), sold in the range of $130,000-$140,000 USD
- Multiple editions of Korean artist Do Ho Suh’s three latest fabric specimen series have sold, Door Knobs on Back Plates, New York and Providence Homes (2017) in the range of $65,000-$75,000 USD; Door Knobs, London, New York, Providence Homes (2017) in the range of $80,000-$120,000 USD; and Keyhole Escutcheons, London Studio & Home, New York, Berlin, and Providence Homes (2017) in the range of $70,000-$80,000 USD
- Editions of Erwin Wurm’s sculpture Short bag (2017) has sold in the range of €50,000-€75,000 EUR; and his Untitled (bag with 2 legs) (2017) has sold in the range of €150,000-€175,000 EUR
- Angel Otero’s painting Chasing the Tear (2017) has sold in the range of $65,000-$75,000 USD
- Photographer Alex Prager’s latest work Anaheim (2017) sold in the range of $30,000-$40,000 USD
A more detailed report of gallery sales follows:
Di Donna Galleries (New York)
- A painting by Joan Miró painting sold for USD 3 million
- A painting by Francis Picabia sold in excess of USD 1 million
- two Alexander Calder gouaches sold for around USD 200,000 each
Mnuchin Gallery (New York)
- Sam Gilliam, Blowing Cool Red, 1974 Acrylic and screenprint on canvas and paper, stitched and collaged, 76.2 x 81.3 cm sold for USD 80,000
Pace Gallery (Beijing, Hong Kong, London, New York, Palo Alto, Seoul)
- Yoshitomo Nara, Young Mother, 2012 Acrylic on canvas sold for USD 2.9 million
- Yoshitomo Nara, The Little Tannen I, 2017 Pencil on paper sold for USD 85,000
- Yoshitomo Nara, Sketches for the Sculpture, 2011-2012 Pencil on paper sold for USD 40,000
- Willem de Kooning, Untitled, c. 1967 Oil on paper laid down on masonite sold for USD 450,000
- Loie Hollowell, Full Frontal (purple, blue and red), 2017 Oil paint, acrylic medium, sawdust, and high-density foam on linen mounted on panel sold for USD 65,000
- Adam Pendleton, System of Display, U (TURNS/acceptera, 1931), 2017 Silkscreen ink on glass and mirror sold for USD 55,000
- Michal Rovner, Urgency, 2017 LCD screen and video Sold for USD 140,000
- Joel Shapiro, Untitled, 2016 Bronze Sold for USD 350,000
- Wang Guangle,170326, 2017 Acrylic on canvas sold for USD 325,000
Paula Cooper Gallery (New York)
- Sol Lewitt, 100 Cubes, 1991 Gouache on paper Sold for asking price between USD 1-1.5 million within the first hour of the VIP preview to a public collection in Europe
Applicat Prazan (Paris)
- Pierre Soulages, Peinture 130 x 97 cm, 28 Octobre, 1966 Oil on canvas Sold in the region of EUR 1 million
- Serge Poliakoff, Bleu, circa 1956 Oil on canvas sold in the region of EUR 1 million
David Zwirner (New York, London)
- A Neo Rauch painting sold for USD 1.2 million
- A work by Yayoi Kusama sold for USD 1 million
- A Donald Judd sculpture sold for USD 850,000
- A Franz West sculpture sold for USD 800,000
- A work by Brice Marden sold for USD 700,000
- Multiple works by Wolfgang Tillmans sold for USD 95,000 each
Alison Jacques Gallery (London)
- Hannah Wilke, Mellow Yellow, 1975 Latex and snaps sold for USD 750,000
- Hannah Wilke, Untitled, 1975-1979 60 glazed and painted ceramics on painted wood board Sold for USD 550,000
- Sheila Hicks, Langue d’oiseau I, 2016-17 Linen 200 x 150 cm sold for USD 150,000
- Maria Bartuszová, Folded Figure VII, 1967-68 Aluminium 11 x 18 x 13 cm Sold for EUR 75,000
- Sheila Hicks :Various works from fibre sculpture series sold for USD 35,000 each
Metro Pictures (New York)
- Robert Longo,Untitled (Trumpville), 2017 Charcoal on mounted paper sold for USD 700,000
Galerie Thomas (Munich)
- A Pablo Picasso drawing sold for in the region of USD 700,000
Lisson Gallery (London and New York)
- an Anish Kapoor sold for GBP 600,000
- a Carmen Herrera sold for USD 500,000
- a Rodney Graham sold for USD 180,000
- a Daniel Buren sold for USD 130,000
- a Shirazeh Houshiary cold for USD 125,000
- a Stanley Whitney sold for USD 100,000
- a Pedro Reyes sold for USD 55,000
- With additional works sold by Cory Arcangel, Tony Cragg, Spencer Finch, Mary Corse, Ted Stamm, Laure Prouvost and Carmen Herrera.
Sprüth Magers (Berlin, London, Los Angeles)
- Andreas Gursky, Dubai World I, 2007 C-Print / Diasec 307 x 223,3 x 6,2 cm (framed) Edition 4/6 + 2 AP sold for EUR 500,000
- George Condo, Giant Head Composition, 2017 Acrylic, gesso, pigment stick, charcoal, and pastel on paper 196,9 x 132,1 cm sold for USD 450,000 to an American collector
- Bernd + Hilla Becher, Suit of Water Tower silver-gelatin prints Editions of 5 sold for EUR 20,000 each
- Thea Djordjadze, Untitled, 2016 Plaster, wood 156 x 79 x 15 cm sold for EUR 35,000 to an American collector
- Llyn Foulkes, The Wall, 2017 Acrylic, photographs, rayon, sourced media and found objects on canvas 190,5 x 228,6 cm sold for USD 275,000 to a Canadian collector
- Louise Lawler,Egg and Gun (distorted for the times, dire), 2008/2017 Digital Fujiflex print face mounted to Plexiglas on museum box 72,4 x 58,4 cm28 Edition 2 of 5, 1 AP sold for USD 40,000 to an American collector
- Michail Pirgelis, Little Sister I, 2017 Aluminium, titanium, lacquer 84×58,5×18 cm sold for EUR 27,000 to a Mexican collector
- Michail Pirgelis, Dominoes, 2017 Aluminium, titanium, lacquer 78 x 66 x 4 cm sold for EUR 25,000 to a German collector
- Sterling Ruby, DRFTRS (6247), 2016 Collage, paint and glue on paper 52,4 x 34,3 cm sold for USD 18,000
- Sterling Ruby, DRFTRS (6262), 2016 Collage, paint and glue on paper 52,4 x 34 cm sold for USD 10,000
Hales Gallery (London)
- two Frank Bowling paintings sold for between USD 300,000-500,000
David Kordansky Gallery (Los Angeles)
- Jonas Wood, DKG NPP #1, 2017 Screenprint and oil-on-canvas works sold for USD 275,000
- Jonas Wood, DKG NPP #2, 2017 Screenprint and oil-on-canvas works sold for USD 275,000
- Jonas Wood, Maritime NPP #8 2017 Screenprint and oil-on-canvas works sold for USD 250,000
- Jonas Wood, WKS NPP #6 2017 Screenprint and oil-on-canvas works sold for USD 250,000
- Rashid Johnson, Untitled Escape Collage, 2017 sold for USD 215,000
- Aaron Curry, Mr. XYZ, 2017 Sold for USD 185,000
- Jennifer Guidi, Elements of All Entities (Universe Mandala SF #6G, Green, Black Sand), 2017 sold for USD 120,000
- Ivan Morley, A True Tale, 2017 sold for USD 40,000
- Kathryn Andrews, Shutterstock, 2017 sold for USD 80,000
- Evan Holloway, Assemblage, 2017 sold for USD 85,000
Kukje Gallery/ Tina Kim Gallery (Seoul, New York)
- Kyungah Ham , Chandeliers for Five Cities DSK 06-D -01, 2017 North Korean hand embroidery, silk threads on cotton, middle man, secret code, bribe, anxiety, censorship, ideology, wooden frame sold for USD 60,000-70,000
Mitchell-Innes & Nash (New York)
- Keltie Ferris, NSEW, 2017 Oil and acrylic on canvas sold in the range of USD 50,000-60,000
- Eddie Martinez, Four paintings from the Yard Work and Love Letter series sold in in the range of USD 35,000-80,000 each
- Jessica Stockholder, Non slip, 2017 Plastic, hard drive parts, oil paint, vinyl
- Pope.L, Several small paintings on paper
Gregor Podnar (Berlin)
- Marcius Galan, Bureaucratic Paintings (Frango Assado RFA), 2017 Acrylic on paper sold for USD 26,000
Taro Nasu (Tokyo)
- Koichi Enomoto, PSI Junior High School, 2015 Oil on canvas sold for USD 23,000 to a US collector
Howard Greenberg Gallery (New York)
- 5 works by William Klein sold for USD 15,000-50,000 each
- 2 works by Saul Leiter sold for USD 14,000 each
- One work by Joel Meyerowitz sold for USD 10,000
Richard Saltoun Gallery (London)
- Edgardo Antonio Vigo, Argentina 1974, 1974 sold in the region of USD 8,000
Patron (Chicago)
- Two works by Harold Mendez sold, each in the range of USD 10,000-20,000
