Art Basel Hong Kong Sales Report

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

Galleria Franco Noero

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

White Cube

Almine Rech Gallery

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

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