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The Fine Art Print Fair Sales Report

October 30, 2018 by Marion Maneker

Over 12,000 visitors attended the Fine Art Print Fair’s 80 exhibitors last weekend. Twenty-seven international galleries participated from the United Kingdom, Spain, France, Germany, Mexico, Switzerland, Denmark, Italy and Ireland. There were five first-time exhibitors as well.

Sims Reed Gallery

  • sold an early David Hockney portfolio, “A Hollywood Collection,” which was acquired by a private American collector. The set was sold for
    just under $60,000
  • Sol LeWitt Grids and Colors portfolio for $50,000. This was LeWitt’s sole publication of prints in 1979. The edition is small — an edition of 10, and there were also five artist’s proofs.
  • Roy Lichtenstein Water Lily for just under $40,000

Thomas French Fine Art

  • sold Matisse, Corot, Lichtenstein, Picasso, Warhol and Duchamp
  • sold out many small editions of Stewards drypoints

Mary Ryan Gallery

  • Sam Gilliam’s work entitled “Phase,” 1974, screenprint, edition of 16
  • sold three prints by Emma Amos, including “3 Ladies,” 1970, to museums
  • the British Museum has acquired for the lithograph “February,” 1958, by George Miyasaki

Childs Gallery

  • Jean-Michel Basquiat’s “Untitled (Emok)” from Portfolio I, 1982/2001, Screenprint, 40×40 in.
  • sold Lee Krasner’s “Twenty-four Hours Light,” 1979/80, Oil and crayon collage on lithograps

Poligrafa Obra Grafica

  • sold an edition of Jordi Alcraz, “Paritura,” 2018, Pigment and cord on cardboard, from an edition of 14 for $15,000

Susan Sheehan Gallery

  • sold a work by Sam Francis, “The White Line,” 1960, lithograph, edition of 75 for $40,000

Ruiz-Healy Art

  • sold the serigraph “Iron Will” by Margarita Cabrera to the Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College

Dolan/Maxwell 

  • sold a rare and important plaster by Stanley William Hayter, as well as works by Picasso, Miró, Masson and Tanguy. Notable new works that were purchased include pieces by Victoria Burge, Michael Canning, and Nona Hershey. Museum sales included a special impression by Norma Morgan and a lithograph from
    the 1960’s by Charles White

Hauser & Wirth

  • Sales highlights included over 40 of their new Hauser & Wirth edition by Rashid Johnson, released to coincide with the fair, including “Untitled Anxious Crowd,” 2018

Two Palms

  • two Stanley Whitney monotypes
  • one Cecily Brown monotype
  • two Terry Winters monotypes
  • a Jeff Koons “Gazing Ball” prin
  • three Mel Bochner monotypes
  • Numerous editioned works from Dana Schutz, Elizabeth Peyton and Terry
    Winters were also sold by the gallery at the Fair to private collectors

Durham Press, Inc.

  • sold several Beatriz Milhazes prints, including “Purple Dahlia,” 2015 for
    $52,000
  • sold several suites of Chitra Ganesh’s “Sultana’s Dream” with several on hold for
    museums. The project consists of 27 linocuts and retails for $18,000 for the suite

Goya Contemporary/Goya-Girl Press

  • sold six impressions of Sanford Biggers‘s “Afropick,” 2005, mostly to institutions

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