Art Basel’s June 2020 Online Fair: Sales Report

Mary Weatherford, Heaven’s Gate, 2020.
PHOTO: FREDERIK NILSEN; ©MARY WEATHERFORD; COURTESY GAGOSIAN.

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Last week, Art Basel closed its second online edition with a number of blue-chip names returning to the fair’s virtual platform. 282 vendors staged online sales in this June session, following the fair’s cancellation of its September edition announced earlier this month. Top bluechip dealers reported early sales for contemporary heavyweights, along with an increased acclimation to the virtual world of art collecting. Here is what sold in this edition of Art Basel’s online fair:

Hauser & Wirth:

Kerry James Marshall inkblot painting Untitled (Blot) (2015), which was acquired by an American museum for for $3 million. It also sold another work featured in its Art Basel viewing room, the
Jeff Koons sculpture Balloon Venus Lespugue (Red) (2013–19), through a dedicated virtual presentation on its own website for $8 million
36 prints from 2007 by Louise Bourgeois for prices in the range of $1.5 million
George Condo’s Diagonal Evolution (2020) for $1.4 million
Ed Clark’s 1972 painting for $1.2 million
Rashid Johnson’s Untitled Broken Crow (2019) for $500,000 to a Latin American Foundation
Two sculpture by Simone Leigh for $325,000 and $110,000 both as gifts to an American museum
Two editions from Glenn Ligon’s Aftermath (2020) for $200,000
Charles Gaines’ Numbers and Trees: Palm Canyon, Palm Trees Series 3, Tree #2 (2020) for $185,000
Nicole Eisenman’s Sarah Nicole Prickett Portrait (2020) for $150,000
Stefan Brüggeman’s Hyper-Palimpsest (Gold) (2020) for $100,000

David Zwirner:

Joan Mitchell’s 1991 pastel on paper for more than $1 million
Joseph Alber’s City (1928/1926) for $1 million
Carol Bove’s black sculpture Tragic Deviousness (2020) for $750,000
Neo Rauch’s Im turm (2019) for $500,000
Five photograph set by Wolfgang Tillman for $500,000 to a collection in Asia

Gagosian:

Jai Aili’s Moutain and Line (2020) for $350,000
Mary Weatherford’s neon-lit painting Heaven’s Gate (2020) for $310,000
Katharina Gross painting from 2020 for $218,000
Ed Ruscha’s work on paper Factory Bubble from 2020 for $95,000
Sarah Sze’s painting Still Dusk (2020) for $85,000

Canada Gallery:

A painting by Matt Connors going for $70,000
Xylor Jane’s painting Supersedure (Space Invaders II), from 2020, that went for $40,000
Katherine Bradford’s painting for $18,000
A painting by Marc Hundley that was bought for $14,000

Alexander Gray Associates:

Afro-Cuban artist Ricardo Brey’s sculpture Admission (2019) for $50,000

Gladstone Gallery:

Keith Haring’s 1982 painting for $4.75 million and a work on paper for $625,000
A fabric knitted work by Rosmarie Trockel for $950,000
Elizabeth Peyton’s painting for $575,000
A 1991 painting by Caroll Dunham for $475,000
Ugo Rondinone sculpture for $320,000

Anthony Meier Fine Arts (San Francisco):

Donald Judd’s Untitled (87-33) (1987) sold with an asking price of $1.85 million
Anne Truitt’s 1976 painting One May with a price of $325,000
Sol LeWitt’s 1972 sculpture with an asking price of $225,00
Two watercolors by Lauretta Vinciarelli for $45,000 each

White Cube:

George Baselitz’s 2012 painting for $165 million
Tracey Emin’s This Was the Beginning (2020) for $490,000
Theaster Gates’s Now that Kobe’s Gone, All Rules Have Changes (2019) for $450,000
Liu Wei’s 2016 painting Purple Air 2016 No. 2 for $350,000
Michael Armitage’s Account of an Illiterate Man (2020) for $278,000
Julie Curtiss’ Selfies 2 (2020) for $50,000

Kasmin:

Lee Krasner’s Untitled, c. 1979-1980 mixed media on paper for $240,000
Max Ernst’s Petite fille jouant aux cercaux, 1974 pastel frottage on blue/gray paper for $115,000

Galerie Thaddeus Ropac:

George Bazelitz’s Elke in Frankreich II (2019) for $1.3 million
Roy Lichtenstein’s Head (Study) from $580,000
Jules de Balincourt’s Park People Verses Forrest People (2020) for $45,000

Xavier Hufkens:

Paul McCarthy’s sculpture for $1.2 million
Tracey Emin’s painting for $490,000
Nicholas Party’s painting for $130,000
Thomas Houseago’s sculpture for $110,000

Lehmann Maupin:

Cecilia Vicuña’s Camilo Torres (1978) for $375,000

Luhring Augustine:

1990 textual painting by Glenn Ligon for an asking price of $1.2 million
Zarina’s collage for $45,000

Almine Rech:

George Condo painting The Dreamer for a price between $950,000 and $1 million
Karel Appel’s The Cyclops (1996) for a price between $726,000 and 838,000
Markus Lupertz’ painting Das Gerucht for a price between $360,000-400,000
Geneieve Figgis’ 2017 Actors for a price between $130,000 to $135,000
Vaughn Spann’s triptych Year of the fallen (2020) for a price between $50,000 to $60,000

Lévy Gorvy:

Lévy Gorvy had several high-priced works on offer, and found buyers for 14 of them ranging in prices between $90,000 and $2.5 million.
Dan Colen’s painting Mother (2020) price at $500,000
Mickalene Thomas’ Sugar Baby priced at $240,000
Enrico Castellani’s 2006 sculpture priced at $150,000

Sikkema Jenkins:

Fons Americanus by Kara Walker priced at $500,000 along with works by Zipora Fried, Sheila Hicks and Jeffrey Gibson

Galerie Max Hetzler:

Bridget Riley’s Intervals 6 (2019) for $1.2 million
Walton Ford’s The Flaming Fields (2020) for $850,000
A work by Ida Tursic & Wilfried Mille for $38,000

Marianne Boesky Gallery:

A painting by Jennifer Bartlett for $600,000
Work by Serge Alain Nitegeka for $30,000
A work by Donald Moffett for $175,000

Skarstedt:

David Salle’s Under the Earth (2020) for $375,000
Barbara Kruger’s Are We Having Fun Yet? (1987) for $550,000
Georg Baselitz’s Ralf III (Remix) (2005) at Skarstedt for $900,000

Lisson Gallery:

Stanley Whitney’s Listening to the Poets for $450,000

Stephen Friedman Gallery:

Luiz Zerbini’s Happiness Beyond Paradise (2020) for $400,000-450,000
Mamma Andersson’s The First Magician (2020) for $350,000

David Kordansky:

Jennifer Guidi’s Desert Beauty (Painted Purple Sand SF #1A, Light Purple-Pink Sky, Purple Mountain, Yellow Ground) for $60,000
Fred Eversley’s Untitled (parabolic lens) (1969/2019) for $275,000
Rashid Johnson’s Untitled Escape Collage (2020) for $475,000
Tala Madani’s Shit Mom (Parentheses) (2020) for $160,000

Regen Projects:

A painting by Christina Quarles for $120,000
A tapestry work by Theaster Gates for $225,000
A painting on paper by Toba Khedoori for $600,000
A painting by Daniel Richter for $226,000

Petzel:

Dana Schutz’s Juggler for $180,000
Simon Denny’s Amazon worker cage patent drawing as virtual King Island Brown Thornbill cage (US 9,280,157 B2: “System and method for transporting personnel within an active workspace” (2016) for $100,000
Charline von Heyl’s Retox (2018) for $325,000
A painting by Pieter Schoolwerth for $55,000
A group of works on paper by Joyce Pensato for $30,000 each