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Galerie Gmurzynska

• A work by Antonio Saura for around US $1 million
• A Wifredo Lam for around US $2 million
• A Robert Indiana for around US $ 600k

Marianne Boesky

• sold a large painting by Jennifer Bartlett for $325,000 before the fair opened, with another at $275,000 on reserve (according to The Art Newspaper’s Anna Brady)

Paula Cooper Gallery

• sold numerous works ranging from $15,000 – $2 million by Tauba Auerbach, Carl Andre, Sol Lewitt, Douglas Huebler, David Novros, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Christian Marclay, Justin Matherly, and Dan Walsh

Galerie St Etienne 

• sold two Egon Schiele drawings each in the low six figures range
• a George Grosz street scene watercolor for $200,000
• an Otto Dix watercolor for $300,000
• a Sue Coe piece about Hurricane Katrina for $25,000

Acquavella Galleries 

• sold a large scale Keith Haring mask which had a retail price of $4 million
• a small scale work by Damian Loeb which sold for $85,000 during the opening hours of the fair

Two Palms 

• Studio sold new Jeff Koons editions at $45,000 each
• Three Mel Bochners in the $12,000 range
• Two Carroll Dunhams at $10,000 each
• a work by Elizabeth Peyton at $10,000

Pace Gallery

• a small Wayne Theibaud drawing of lipstick, compact, and eyebrow pencil from 1964 was sold for $750k, according to a collector who inquired.

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac

• Georg Baselitz Signora Kraut, Signora cavolo, 2019 sold for 1.5 million euros to UK
• Georg Baselitz, Marokkaner, 2013 Bronze, patinated, 351 kg Ed. 1 of 6 sold for 1,750,000 euros to German
• Georg Baselitz, Kalmückentempel, 2010 Oil on canvas sold for 1 million
• Oliver Beer, Recomposition (Anna) , 2019 . Violin, sectioned and set in resin; gesso sold for £32,000
• Marc Brandenburg, Stress reliever 1, 2018 Graphite on paper, diptych, sold for 58,000 Euros
• Adrian Ghenie, Doctor Josef 1, 2011 Oil on canvas (undisclosed sum)
• Alex Katz, Coca-Cola Girl 44, 2019 sold $500,000 to Europe
• Robert Longo, Untitled (Tiger Head 2), 2011 Charcoal on mounted paper sold for $1.5 million to Germany

• Robert Longo Study of Jellyfish, 2019 Ink and charcoal on vellum sold for $65,000
• Robert Longo, Study of Luca, 2017, Ink and charcoal on vellum sold for $65,000
• Robert Longo, Study of Ram, 2018 Ink and charcoal on vellum, sold for $65,000
• Arnulf Rainer,Proportion, ohne Titel, 1953/54 Oil on paper, sold for 90,000 euros
• Arnulf Rainer, Proportion, ohne Titel, 1953, Colored papers on paper, sold for 75,000 euros
• Arnulf Rainer, Proportion, ohne Titel, 1953 Oil on paper, sold for 60,000 euros
• Robert Rauschenberg, Crossings (Borealis), 1990 Tarnish and silkscreen ink on brass, sold for $1.7 million to Germany
• Robert Rauschenberg,Proof (Salvage), 1984 Acrylic on canvas, sold for $1,350,000
• Robert Rauschenberg, Canine Nightmare (Borealis), 1990 Tarnish and silkscreen ink on brass, sold for $625,000
• Alvaro Barrington, Worked all day and night as a garbageman so they could be fresh and send money back home, 2019 Mixed media on Burlap $38.000
• Georg Baselitz , Felice runter,2019 Oil and gold lacquer on canvas  €1.500.000
• Tony Cragg, Stack, 2018 Bronze €260.000
• Imi Knoebel,Element 11.2, 2017 Acrylic, aluminium €40.000
• Robert Longo, Untitled (Swamp Forest), 2018 charcoal on mounted paper (price undisclosed)
• Robert Rauschenberg, Radar Room Service (Borealis), 1991 Tarnish and silkscreen ink on copper $1.700.000
• Alvaro Barrington, Worked all day and night as a garbageman so they could be fresh and send money back home, 2019 Mixed media on Burlap $38.000
• Georg Baselitz , Felice runter,2019 Oil and gold lacquer on canvas  €1.500.000
• Tony Cragg, Stack, 2018 Bronze €260.000
• Imi Knoebel,Element 11.2, 2017 Acrylic, aluminium €40.000
• Robert Longo, Untitled (Swamp Forest), 2018 charcoal on mounted paper (price undisclosed)
• Robert Rauschenberg, Radar Room Service (Borealis), 1991 Tarnish and silkscreen ink on copper $1.700.000
• Daniel Richter, 4. Sinfonie des Grauens, 2019 oil on canvas price undisclosed

Lévy Gorvy

• Christopher Wool Untitled2009 Silkscreen ink on linen sold for around $6 million USD
• Mark Grotjahn Untitled (Indian #2 Face 45.47)2014 sold for around $5 million USD
• Alberto Giacometti Tête d’homme1961 Bronze priced between $2-2.5 million USD
• Pierre Soulages, Peinture 55 x 38 cm, décembre 19541954 Oil on canvas sold for around €1 million EUR
• Enrico Castellani, Superficie blu1965 Acrylic on canvas 
• Gego, Tronco no. 11974Stainless steel wire with pentagonal base
• Carol Rama, Quattro Fasi 1956 Oil, tempera, and stones on panel
• Günther Uecker, Wasserfall I and II1997 Nails on canvas and wood with white latex

Hauser + Wirth

Hauser sent out a release today saying they sold two works for prices above $10m from their pre-fair publications sent to collectors but they do not name the works.

• Two John Chamberlain sculptures sold including ‘COMEOVER’ for USD 3,000,000 and ‘PARISIANESCAPADE’, for USD 750,000
• Two Georges Vantongerloo paintings, one for over CHF 3,000,000 and one for CHF 650,000
  
• Two sculptures by Eduardo Chillida, including an Elegy sculpture for EUR 3,000,000
• A seminal Philip Guston painting, ‘Boot’, for over USD 2,500,000
• A Piero Manzoni Achrome for EUR 2,600,000
• An important marble and wood sculpture by Jack Whitten for USD 2,500,000, which is the first time his sculptural work has been made available for sale at a fair, plus a Jack Whitten acrylic on canvas for USD 2,000,000 to a private US collection
• A rare early bronze sculpture by Alina Szapocznikow for EUR 1,500,000
• A Cy Twombly 1960 painting ‘Study for School of Athens [Rome]’ from a Swiss collection that has owned it since 1971
  
• A Günther Förg Colorfield painting
• A major Max Bill painting from 1943 for CHF 1,500,000, coinciding with an exhibition in Zurich dedicated to the Bauhaus milieu of Max Bill 
  
• Works spanning the Hauser & Wirth contemporary program including Rita Ackermann, Phyllida Barlow, Isa Genzken, Jenny Holzer, Rashid Johnson, Pipilotti Rist and Lorna Simpson
  
• From UnlimitedOne of Hauser & Wirth’s six Unlimited projects, an installation by Franz West, was placed for USD 3,800,000 – co-owned and co-presented with David Zwirner. 

Hauser & Wirth also announced today worldwide exclusive representation of Annie Leibovitz, which is being marked by the presentation of a 63-part photographic work on the booth for USD 275,000.

The New York Times had these sales:

Jack Shainman

• a Barkley Hendricks portrait, “Andy,” for $1.5 million at the Tuesday preview
• sold six of the nine works he had on display within an hour of the fair’s opening, including a Kerry James Marshall, “Untitled” priced at $3.5 million

Artnews had these sales:

David Zwirner 

• sold a 1966 painting by Gerhard Richter for $20 million to a major private collection in the U.S.
• Kerry James Marshall’s Laundry Man (2019) for $3.5 million
• a large 1967 painting by Joan Mitchell for more than $6 million. 

Mnuchin Galery 

• sold a small Joan Mitchell painting from 1960, with an asking price of $2 million
• sold a 2002 Mark Bradford painting, Fly in the Buttermilk, made with his signature permanent end papers. The asking price was $3.5 million.

Richard Gray

• a Leon Polk Smith painting for $350,000
• a granite sculpture by Jaume Plensa for $400,000
• an Alex Katz painting, Summer Triptych (1985), for $1.7 million

Pace Gallery

• A Calder work—variously called Untitled and Four Above Ten Blacks, from 1956—sold for $8.5 million

Artnews has a bit more detail on Zwirner’s online viewing room:

• a Yayoi Kusama pumpkin sculpture for $1.8 million
• a Donald Judd stack from 1991 for $900,000
• a painting by Harold Ancart for $45,000
• two paintings by Josh Smith
• A work by Carol Bove went to a collector in Houston

Bloomberg‘s James Tarmy reports from Art Basel Unlimited:

David Zwirner & Hauser + Wirth

• an installation of 28 colorful sofas by Franz West, which sold on the second day for $3.8 million.

Artnet’s Andrew Goldstein mentions this sale:

Blum & Poe

• Tomoo Gokita, I Hadn’t Anyone Till You (2019) for $175,000

Art Agency, Partners reported these sales:

Mnuchin Gallery

• works by Sam Gilliam in the range of $1m

Pace Gallery

• Lee Ufan’s From Line (1977) for $2m
• Barbara Hepworth’s Four-Square (Four Circles) (1996) for $550,000

Gladstone Gallery

• Robert Mapplethorpe, Anicka Yi, Philippe Parreno, Carroll Dunham, Elizabeth Peyton, Rosemarie Trockel

Michael Werner

• Sigmar Polke’s Graphbilder mit schleifen (nach Albrecht Dürer) [Graphite painting with loops [after Albrecht Dürer]] (1986) for around $3m
• Also works by Markus Lüpertz, Enrico David, Hurvin Anderson, Georg Baselitz

Spruth Magers

• an edition of Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Still #39 (1979) for $950,000

Annely Juda Fine Art

• works by Christo ($310,000
• a three-part David Nash ($140,000)
• Liubov Popova’s gouache on cardboard Non-Objective Composition (c. 1920) for $320,000

Blum and Poe

• Yoshitomo Nara, Pup King (2000) for $3m
• four new works by Mark Grotjahn priced between $750,000 to $800,000
• three works by Henry Taylor from $100,000 to $175,000
• works by Friedrich Kunath for $75,000
• a painting by Yukie Ishikawa, Impermanence—Oboroyo (2019) for $75,000
• a 1983 painting by Robert Colescott for $900,000
  

Modern Art Gallery

• five works by Lois Dodd, such as Door Staircase (1981) for $95,000
• Steven Shearer, Forger’s Offering (2019), sold for €270,000.

Stephen Friedman

• sold multiple works by Denzil Forrester for prices ranging from £150,000 to £450,000 including Fantasy Stitch Up (1990)

Galerie Peter Kilchmann

• sales of work by Monica Bonvicini priced at around €36,00
• several works by Hernan Bas had sold for prices ranging from $45,000 for works on paper to $150,000 for a painting
• several new works combining ceramic, lithograph and gelatin silver print by Shirana Shahbazi for CHF16,000