Katya Kazakina reports on the $350,000 sale of a Mary Corse work from Kayne Griffin Corcoran
- three of Corse’s shimmering paintings were reserved by museums and all other pieces in Kayne Griffin Corcoran’s booth were sold
Kelly Crow had these sales on Instagram:
Pearl Lam Galleries
- two pieces by Su Xiaobai sold for $250k each
Nate Freeman went during the snow to record these sales:
König Galerie
- sold Katharina Grosse’s vividly colored painting o.T. (2017) for €140,000 ($173,000),
Lisson Gallery
- sold Tony Cragg’s wt (extended) (2016) for £385,000 ($477,960)
- Carmen Herrera’s Cadmium orange with blue (1989) for $600,000,
- Laure Prouvost’s The Hidden Paintings Grandma Improved – We Are Coming Out (2017) for £30,000 ($37,200).
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
- two brand new, large-scale paintings by Alex Katz, priced at $500,000 and $550,000
Jack Shainman
- sold a giant screenprint by Hank Willis Thomas on retroreflective vinyl for $85,000.
Snow Storm Couldn’t Stop Armory Show Crowds, but Early Sales Were Scattered
The fair sent around these sales:
10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong
- sold a work to an institution in San Francisco for $168,000 by the Chinese artist Huang Rui
Blain Southern, London and Berlin
- a painting from the new series of work incorporating acrylic and silkscreen on canvas by New York-based artist Amy Feldman.
blank projects, Cape Town
- sold all 3 Cinga Samson paintings on display and an additional 5 from their inventory. Price ranges $10,000-$15,000.
El Apartamento, Havana
- Sold 1 A Happy Day by Reyneir Leyva Novo to CIFO Foundation
Galerie Eigen + Art, Berlin
- 4 works by Nicola Samori in the $10,000-$40,000 range
GALLERY HYUNDAI, Seoul
- works by Seung-taek Lee and Shin Sung-Hy in the $40,000-$60,000 range
Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg (Focus and Galleries section)
- sales of 3 editions of a photograph and 1 film at their solo booth of artist Tabita Rezaire
James Cohan, New York
- a Lee Mullican painting for $100,000
- both Fred Tomaselli paintings, one for $65,000, the other for $225,000
- an early Robert Smithson work
Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco
- One Matthew Ashton Harrison work was sold to a museum.
KÖNIG GALERIE, Berlin
- Erwin Wurm’s Bag walking (2017) for $140,000
- a work by John Seal for $23,000
- a work by Jose Dávila for $20,000
Lévy Gorvy, New York
- several works by Karin Schneider sold each for $8,500 (with three on reserve) at their solo booth
Ludorff, Düsseldorf
- sale of an Imi Knoebel silkscreen on paper for $19,000
Marianne Boesky, New York
- a number of Anthony Pearson works
- several Hannah Von Bart works
P.P.O.W., New York (Galleries section)
- a work by Betty Tompkins to a major museum
- Robin Williams to 2 major collections
- Romiro Gómez to a major collection
Pace Gallery, New York
- sold out our booth of Tara Donovan’s Composition (Cards) pieces ranging from $35,000 to $65,000
Perrotin, New York
- two works by Pieter Vermeersch, an oil on marble and a marble on lamb pint, which were acquired by a Massachusetts museum
- a number of Leslie Hewitt works were placed into private collections
Pierogi, New York
- a work by David Scher to a private collection
- a smaller backroom Patrick Jacobs diorama to a private collection
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
- sales of works by Theaster Gates, Glenn Ligon, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Gillian Wearing.
Repetto, London
- the $10,000 sale of a Mary Lai work on paper
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
- the sale of several Derek Adams works
- several Deana Lawson works
- a work by Martha Tuttle
Ronchini Gallery, London
- one sale of a work by Katsumi Nakai
Sean Kelly, New York
- a work by Hugo McCloud for $65,000
- a work by Sam Moyer for $50,000
- a work by Shazia Sikander for $90,000
- a work by Kehinde Wiley $140,000
WENTRUP, Berlin
- a work by Gregor Hildebrandt for $48,000
- works by Louisa Clement for $8,000 each
- a work by Nevin Aladag for $39,000
