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Art Cologne Sales Report

April 23, 2018 by Marion Maneker

Copyright Notice: © Koelnmesse GmbH, Harald Fleissner

Art Cologne had 55,000 visitors come to see 210 galleries from 33 countries. Here are the sales reported by galleries:

Gagosian Gallery

  • Sculpture “Marsupiale” from Urs Fischer (for a price in the high six figurest according to Artsy’s Nate Freeman.)

Galerie Aurel Scheibler

  • Alice Neel, “Grimaldi”, higher 6-figure amount
  • Nobert Kricke Spatial Sculpture Blue, 1952, to the Museum Ludwig

Galerie Daniel Buchholz

  • 2-part sculpture from Isa Genzken, € 400,000
  • Works by Anne Imhof, each € 32,000
  • Wall works from Florian Pumhösl

David Zwirner

  • Neo Rauch to a German collector for $1.25m

Karsten Greve

  • Gotthard Graubner for €690k

Galerie von Vertes

  • Work by George Condo in the lower 6-figure range
  • Mobile from Alexander Calder in the mid 6-figure range
  • Joan Miró “Tete”, 1970, oil on canvas € 400,000

Galerie Sprüth Magers

  • Works by John Baldessari, 2017, 375,000 US dollars
  • Knitted image by Rosemarie Trockel € 200,000
  • Screen by Robert Elfgen
  • Sculpture by Michail Pirgelis

Galerie Ludorff

  • Karin Kneffel, oil painting, untitled. € 240,000
  • Winfried Gaul, “Mannheimer Quadrat” € 24,000
  • Graphic works by Rupprecht Geiger, between € 1,500 and 6,000

Galerie nächst St. Stephan

  • Painting by Katharina Grosse, € 192,000
  • Work by Lee Ufan, 142,000 US dollar

Galerie ThomasWilli Baumeister “Konstruktivistisch”, 1920, 6-figure range

  • Sponsored cubicle with reliefs from Martin Spengler sold out
  • Works by Simon Schubert
  • Works by Peter Blake

Galerie Hauser & Wirth

  • 4 works of the Gutai artist Takesada Matsutani, including the mixed technique “Deux cercles” 85,000 US dollars
  • 3 works by Mary Hellmann

Lisson Gallery

  • Work by Lee Ufan

Galerie Klaus Benden

  • Canvas painting by Tom Wesselmann in the 6-figure range
  • Andy Warhol, “Liz” offset lithography, 1964, € 58,000 and edition works

Galerie Sies & Höke

  • Work by Julius von Bismarck € 48,000
  • 2 paintings by Jonathan Meese, € 48,000 each
  • Sculptures by Claudia Wieser, € 6,000 each

Galerie Koch

  • Adolf Luther “Sphärisches Hohlspiegelobjekt” (Spherical  concave mirror object) € 24,000
  • Works by Otto Piene and Imi Knoebel

Clages

  • Relief by Claus Richter “Gleichbleibender Reiz” € 14,500

Galerie Döbele

  • Photographs by Robert Häusser, silver gelatine copies on barite paper, € 18,500

Galerie Eigen + Art

  • Works by Nicola Samori, who paints on copper plates
  • Works by Titus Schade
  • Works by Kai Schimenz
  • Works by Martin Groß from the sponsored cubicle

König Galerie

  • Painting by Katharina Grosse (€170k according to Artsy)
  • Works by Jeppe Hein

Galerie Schönewald

  • Works by Andreas Schmitten

Galerie Heinz Holtmann

  • Boris Becker, small format photographs
  • Alicia Viebrock, large canvas
  • Heinz Mack, chalk pastel on paper

Galerie Bernd Klüser

  • Olaf Metzel wall sculpture, aluminium, 2018
  • Drawing by Alex Katz
  • Works by Natalia Zaluska

Galerie Löhrl •

  • 3-part floor sculpture by Ulrich Rückriem

Galerie Hans Mayer

  • Works by Tony Oursler
  • Ulrich Erben and other artists of the gallery

Galerie Thaddeus Ropac

  • Two canvases by Georg Baselitz fresh from the studio (Kenny Schachter says he was the buyer for €500k each in a deal made on the plane to Cologne.)
  • Overpainting by Arnulf Rainer
  • Sculptures by Erwin Wurm

Ruttkowski;68

  • Installation by Philipp Emde for € 18,000

Galerie Schlichtenmaier

  • Walter Stöhrer, one of his last works, 1919, “Licht zwischen Zauber und Zeichen “ (Light between magic and icon), € 45,000
  • Sculpture by Winfried Gaul, varnish on wood, € 20,000 to an American collection
  • Works by Luzia Simons
  • City view from Ralph Fleck
  • Mixed technique by Karl Fred Dahmen € 8,500 graphic in the price range from € 400 to 900
  • Adolf Fleischmann gouache on paper, € 15,000
  • Willi Baumeister pencil drawing, 1936, € 12,500

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