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Hauser + Wirth
Frieze Masters
- Arshile Gorky Untitled, Head (1936–1942) Oil on canvas USD 1,600,000 to a U.S. Collection
- Lucian Freud, The Painter’s Mother (1940) Ink on paper USD 155,000
- Henry Moore, Portrait of Stephen Spender (1934) Pen and ink, chalk, brush and ink, wash GBP 50,000
Frieze London
- Keith Tyson, Entangled Still Life (2018) Oil on Aluminium USD 100,000
- Rashid Johnson, Untitled Escape Collage 2018 USD 215,000
- Lorna Simpson, Blue Earth/Sky 2018 Ink and screenprint on gessoed wood panel USD 375,000 to a British collection
- Matthew Day Jackson, Flowers in a Vase (2018) Textile, silkscreen, watercolor, woodblock print, pigment print on paper European collection.
Galerie Ropac
- Robert Longo Untitled (Forever; Hydrangea, Beethoven’s Love Letter #9), 2018 sold for $800,000
- Tom Sachs Luggage (Rimowa), 2016 sold for $160,000
Artnet’s Julia Halperin had these sales:
Christophe Van de Weghe
- a work by Franz Kline, which was listed at $8 million and sold
Alison Jacques Gallery
- four drawings by Lenore Tawney on graph paper for $65,000–85,000 and one so-called “drawing in air,” a 3D composition made with string priced between $65,000 and $120,000
ArtNews had these sales from The Master, Judd Tully:
Night Gallery
- Mira Dancy’s triangle-shaped and large-scale painting Toxic(2018) sold for $36,000
- a painting by the French artist Claire Tabouret, Duel in Sun (Bronze), also 2018, of two figures seemingly wrestling, sold to an Italian collector for $33,000
- Tandem Green, by the New York–based artist Derek Fordjour sold for $18,000
Kavi Gupta
- rare works by AfriCOBRA artists sold in the opening minutes for prices ranging between $50,000 and $250,000
- Family (1971), by one of the movement’s founders, Gerald Williams, which was priced at the higher end of that range
- Devan Shimoyama, Weed Picker (2018) sold to a collector with homes in both the United States and United Kingdom for a price between $40,000 and $60,000
- untitled portrait of a black woman by Firelei Báez for between $65,000 and $85,000
Lehmann Maupin
- at least four works by OSGEMEOS sold, including Someone to Share the Dreams at between $130,000 and $180,000, It Is Never Enough in the same price range, and the largest, The Lyrical, at $150,000–$200,000
Jack Shainman Gallery
- sold all three Nick Cave “Soundsuits” on view—standing, couture-inspired, wickedly crafted costumes priced at $150,000 each
- Hayv Kahraman, Pussy Donation Box (2018), measuring 14 by 18 by 5 inches, sold for $9,500, and a related work, Donation Box, for the same price
Zwirner
- two sculptures by Carol Bove went for $750,000 and $350,000
- a Minimalist-styled Susan Frecon painting for $180,000
- a Bridget Riley shaped canvas for £600,000 ($777,000)
- a Lisa Yuskavage (Couple in Bed, 2017) for $900,000
- a mixed-media work by Toba Khedoori for $600,000
Robilant + Voena
- sold a stately yet ravishing, 18-inch-high plaster by Canova, Bust of Caroline Murat, nee Bonaparte (circa 1810–12) for around $1 million dollars to a Korean art collector
- a beautiful, 18th-century Tiepolo painting, Portrait of a Young Page, bust length for less than a $1 million to a European collector
- sold a page-sized, single-slash, and deeply blue Fontana Concetto Spaziale Attese (1964) for $500,000.
Frieze Masters
Van de Weghe
- a work by Franz Kline for $8,000,000 USD
David Zwirner
- sales of works by Anni Albers, Ruth Asawa, On Kawara, Dieter Roth, Bruce Nauman, and Franz West. Prices range between $175,000 to $1.4 million. Works were placed in prominent collections in China, Japan, Mexico, the US, and the UK.
Dickinson
- sold Barbara Hepworth‘s bronze sculpture River Form (BH 568), conceived in 1965 and cast in 1973 in an edition of 3 + Artist’s proof (this cast 3/3)
Galeria Continua
- sold several works by Ilya and Amelia Kabakov, including one for $850,000 USD.
Pace
- sold the 1993 Lee Ufan painting, Correspondance, for $155,000
- sold two porcelain wall sculptures by Chinese artist Yin Xiuzhen which sold for $86,000USD and $68,000USD
- a new installation work by Song Don sold for $65,000USD
- a 2018 painting by Adrian Ghenie for €200,000
- a 2018 sculpture by Kevin Francis Gray for 40,000 GBP
- two works on paper by Loie Hollowell for $10,000 each
- Oscar Humphries sold seven Japanese vases with prices ranging between £2,500-£8,000
Frieze London
Sprüth Magers
- two Jenny Holzer’s sold in the range of USD 200,000 – 225,000
- sold out all of their Marcel van Eeden works
- George Condo was sold for USD 80,000
- two Kaari Upson works selling in the range of USD 60,000 – 80,000
David Zwirner
- a Toba Khedoori for USD 600,000
- Carol Bove two works, one for USD 750,000 and one for USD 350,000
- Suzan Frecon USD 180,000
- Bridget Riley GDP 600,000
- Rose Wylie GDP 150,000
- Lisa Yuskavage USD 900,000
- Oscar Murillo two works, both USD 280,000
- William Eggleston USD 65,000
- R.Crumb USD 175,000
Lisson Gallery
- a Haroon Mirza for GDP 45,000
- two Ryan Gander’s ranging from GDP 15,000 – 90,000
- a John Akomfrah for GDP 75,000
- two Laure Prouvost both for GDP 12,000
- a Spencer Finch for USD 24,000
- a Dom Sylvester Houédard for USD 12,000.
Timothy Taylor
- sold out its solo presentation of new paintings by Eddie Martinez, six large paintings for $95K apiece and three small paintings for $30K apiece
David Kordansky Gallery
- sold out of the new paintings and sculptures by Los Angeles-based artist Calvin Marcus selling in the range of USD 18,000 to 38,000
Sultana
- reported the sale of an edition of Walter Pfeiffer for EUR 9,000.
Richard Saltoun Gallery
- a solo booth featuring Helen Chadwick almost sold out of the edition of In the Kitchen (1977)
Weiss Berlin
- sold one Faith Rinngold to a museum in the range of USD 160,000-500,000.
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Lévy Gorvy
- The four major Morellet works on the gallery’s stand sold to European and American collectors, all priced between 250,000-350,000 EUR
- The Morellet installation piece on the stand, the artist’s first ever work in neon, is currently on reserve for an institution, priced at 1 million EUR
Hauser + Wirth
Frieze Masters
- Leon Kossoff, ‘Railway Bridge Near Kings Cross, Dark Day’ (1967), Oil on board
- Frank Auerbach, ‘Primrose Hill, Summer’ (1968), Oil on board
Frieze
- three works by Günther Förg with prices beginning at EUR 350,000 each
- an important work by Lorna Simpson sold for USD 375,000 to a British collection
- a flower painting by Matthew Day Jackson sold to a European collection
- Adrien Ghenie, Untitled, 2018 Oil on canvas 50 x 30 cm , sold for £200,000
- Georg Baselitz, Schwarzes Pferd [Black Horse], 1986 Oil on canvas sold for 800,000 euros
- Alvaro Barrington, A Straight Face, 2018 Yarn and mixed media on burlap sold for £32,000
- Antony Gormley, FRONT, 2016 Cast iron, 675 Kg sold for £350,000
- Daniel Richter, Classic, 2018 Oil on canvas sold for 185,000 euros (above)
