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Art Basel’s June 2020 Online Fair: Sales Report

June 29, 2020 by Angelica Villa

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

Goodman Gallery:

  • Cassi Namoda’s Bar Mundo at 12am (2020) for $20,000

Bortolami:

  • Claudio Parmiggiani’s Untitled (2019) for $65,000
  • Marina Rheingantz‘s Danse de l’eu (2020) for $50,000

Miguel Abreu Gallery:

  • R.H. Quaytman’s The Sun Does Not Move, Chapter 35 (2020) for $140,000
  • Tishan Hsu’s Fingerpainting 3 (1994) for $90,000
  • Milton Resnick’s Skow (1981) for $50,000

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