Christie’s Imp-Mod day sales = £23.8m; Christie’s Mid-Season Contemporary = $23.2m; ADAA Art Show Sales.

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Christie’s Mid-Season Contemporary = $ 23.2m

Beauford Delaney, Abstraction No. 4 $387,000

Christie’s Mid-Season Contemporary sale and concomitant editions sale made $23.2m combined:

• “Christie’s Post-War to Present auction totaled $20,963,750 selling 75% by lot. Felix Gonzalez-Torres’“Untitled” (Last Light) realized $857,000, Beauford Delaney’s Abstraction No. 4 sold for $387,000 and Nicolas Party’s Portrait got $275,000 against a high estimate of $120,000”

• “Christie’s Contemporary Edition auction on Wednesday totaled $1,742,438 selling 89% by lot. Robert Rauschenberg’s Surface Series, from Currents sold for $30,000. Julie Mehretu’s Entropia (review) realized $87,500 against a high estimate of $25,000. Other exceptional prices were Ed Ruscha’s Cold Beer Beautiful Girls making $65,000 and Georg Baselitz’s Orangenesser getting $17,500 against a high estimate of $3,000.”

Freeman’s Sells Nursing Madonna for $2.47m

Earlier this week, Freeman’s sold an Old Master work for $2.47m, a record for the Philadelphia auction house. The painting, Nursing Madonna, is one of only 10 known works by an anonymous artist known as the Master of the Embroidered Foliage. Given the other works are in museum collections including the Louvre, the National Gallery of Scotland and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, it isn’t a surprise that the lot attracted eighteen bidders from Europe, the UK and America. The winning bidder was European.

Christie’s Imp-Mod Day = £23.8m ($31m)

Impressionist & Modern Art Day sale £16,723,000 / $21,823,516
Sold by Lot: 79%

• Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s Vase d’anémones realised £851,250 / $1,110,881
• André Brasilier, Cavaliers en forêt bleue £323,250 / $421,841
• Georges (Jirí) Kars, Les baigneuses (The Judgement of Paris) £137,500 / $179,438

Impressionist & Modern Works on Paper £7,098,875 / $9,264,032
Sold by Lot: 72%

• Marc Chagall’s L’été, Les moissonneuses (Les quatres saisons) realised £671,250 / $875,981
• Jacques Lipchitz, Femme cubist, £299,250 / $390,521
• Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Composition dans un cercle blanc sur fond noir, £187,500 / $244,688

ADAA Art Show Sales

The Master, Judd Tully, was at The Art Show today gathering sales information:

Jonathan Boos Gallery

• sold George Copeland Ault’s Moonlit Desert (1941) asking price of $230,000
• Irene Rice Pereira’s Machine Composition (1935), asking price of $275,000

Meredith Long Fine Art

• Pereira, Congress (Monument II), 1938, sold for under $100,000

Betty Cunningham Gallery

• Rackstraw Downes, Demolition and Excavation on the site of the Equitable Life Assurance Society’s New Tower on 7th Avenue and 52nd Street (1983), asking price of $175,000
• Study with Two Skylights (2017), asking price of $125,000

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery

• Henry Ossawa Tanner, Edge of the Forest (Bois d’Amour), circa 1893, and Hills of Jerusalem (circa 1908), executed in oil on board, sold for approximately $125,000 each
• Tanner’s iconic Sodom & Gomorrah, which he painted in Paris circa 1920–24, and which was owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art but deaccessioned sometime in the 1950s, also sold, though at an undisclosed price

Jill Newhouse

• sold a delicately detailed Delacroix pencil on paper, Academic Male Nude, from circa 1817, for $15,000 to a contemporary art collector

Hauser & Wirth

• Roberto Cuoghi’s SS (XCIP) c/m/l sold for $120,000