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Art Basel Hong Kong Sales Report

March 28, 2019 by Marion Maneker

Hauser & Wirth announced the “multi-million dollar” sale of a major abstract landscape painting by Zeng Fanzhi to a private collection in Asia

We’ve put together reports from The Art Newspaper, Artnet, Financial Times, Artsy and ArtNews with sales reported directly. This sales report is available to AMMpro subscribers. The first month of AMMpro is free and subscribers should feel free to cancel after the first month.

Annely Juda Fine Art

  • sold a Nam June Paik from 1991 for $600,000

Galleria Franco Noero

  • Two ceramic pieces by Sam Falls sold in the region of $13,000 to $20,000

Hauser & Wirth

  • a multi-million dollar untitled landscape (above) by Zeng Fanzhi to a private collection in Asia
  • Mark Bradford’s ‘Superman’ (2019) for USD 2,000,000
  • The first painting by Jack Whitten to become available from his Estate for USD 1,750,000
  • Work on paper by Arshile Gorky
  • Lorna Simpson painting to an Asian institution for USD 425,000
  • Series of Louise Bourgeois lithographs for circa USD 400,000
  • Günther Förg acrylic on wood for EUR 275,000 to a private collection in Hong Kong
  • A 1974 Luchita Hurtado painting for USD 220,000 to a collection in Asia
  • Charles Gaines mixed media work for USD 120,000
  • A new painting by Amy Sherald
  • The gallery also reports that it has placed all available work by Louise Bourgeois from its exhibition at H Queen’s within one day of the opening, the majority of works to collections in Asia with prices ranged from USD 250,000 to USD 4,000,000 per work

Pace Gallery

  • sold its entire exhibition of luminous paintings by Mary Corse largely to Asian clients for prices ranging from $300,000 to $650,000
  • a large painting from 2012 by Zhang Xiaogang, which went to a Chinese foundation for $1m
  • Yoshitomo Nara’s How Yer Doing? Stayin’ True to You? (2006) sold for $650,000
  • two Zhang Xiaogang works sold for $300,000 each
  • Adam Pendleton’s Untitled (masks) (2018) sold for $140,000

David Kordansky

  • a parabolic lens by Fred Eversley for $250,000
  • a Rashid Johnson for $210,000
  • a Jonas Wood for $175,000
  • a Jonas Wood for $120,000
  • a Matthew Brannon for $48,000
  • a Calvin Marcus for $38,000
  • an Ivan Morley for $36,000
  • a Will Boone for $35,000
  • a Lauren Halsey for $30,000

White Cube

  • Andy Warhol, Campbell’s Elvis (1962) for $2.85m

 Almine Rech Gallery

  • a painting by George Condo in the range of $1.2m to $1.4m

David Zwirner 

  • sold four new sculptures by Carol Bove for $400,000 to $500,000 each
  • An Alice Neel for $1.7m
  • A Luc Tuymans painting was priced at $1.5 million
  • A Liu Ye small Book Painting No. 6(2014–15) sold in the opening hours for $350,000.

Two Palms

  • sold Two Dana Schutz monotypes for $40,000 each
  • two of her etchings at $6,000 a piece
  • Jeff Koons Gazing Ball (Klimt Kiss) for $40,000
  • Mel Bochner Amazing mirror for $40,000
  • Stanley Whitney monotype for $40,000

Thaddaeus Ropac

  • Georg Baselitz’s huge, bronze “Zero Ende” (2013) for $1.7m
  • a new Elizabeth Peyton watercolor priced at $95,000
  • a fire-hued Imi Knoebel on aluminum listed at $226,000
  • Georg Baselitz, Mit Blick nach Norden, 2011 for €40.000
  • Georg Baselitz, Immer noch unterwegs, 2014 for €1.600.000
  • Georg Baselitz, Ho visto un volo di colombe, 2014 for €550.000
  • Oliver Beer, Self-Portrait (Leg Side), 2017 for €12,000
  • Oliver Beer, Autoportrait 50mm (Leg Side), for £14,000
  • Oliver Beer, A Shoe I wore (Right), 2018 for £15,000
  • Alex Katz, Nicole 2, 2018 for $550,000
  • Imi Knoebel, FIGURA U, 2018 for €200,000
  • Robert Longo, Study Of Split Ram, 2018 for $120,000
  • Elizabeth Peyton, Ally and Jackson, Stephanie and Bradley, 2019 for $95.000
  • Daniel Richter, Mutter meiner Fragen, 2019 €185.000

Blum & Poe

  • sold Henry Taylor’s Queen & King for $850,000
  • a piece by Yukinori Yanagi, Wandering Position – Pgonomyrmex7 (1997) for $65,000
  • Yoshitomo Nara White Riot (2010), an ceramic sculpture with a $950,000 price tag

Galerie du Monde

  • sold several works by Liu Kuo-Sung, Fong Chung-Ray, Kwok Hon-Sum and Chi-Tsung Wu — including to buyers from outside of Asia (price range HK$50,000-HK$1.1m)

Cardi Gallery

  • Zao Wou-Ki’s 17.02.71-12.05.76 (1971), which sold to an Asian collector for $1.8 million

Skarstedt

  • Willem de Kooning’s Seated Woman (1969/1980), which had an asking price of $975,000

 Gagosian

  • a large Georg Baselitz sold through the gallery would not reveal the price

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