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Swiss Satellite Action

June 22, 2010 by Katherine Jentleson

Insider sale information from Sarah Douglas’s report on Scope Basel:

Brigitte Schenk

  • Marilyn Manson’s paintings, which range from €36,000–90,000 ($53,000–$133,000), apiece sold out;  Schenk also closed a deal on a Gerhard Richter painting that she did not bring to the fair, for €1.2 million ($1.8 million).

X-ist

  • Sold mixed-media-on-canvas works by Nuri Kuzucan in the €2,000–20,000 ($3,000–30,000) range.

Beck & Eggeling

  • Found buyers for small bronze pieces by Italian artist Gehard Demitz for €5,000 ($7,400) apiece.

Jacob Karpio

  • Sold four works by Luis Barba at $48,000 apiece.

Rain and Exhaustion Keep Scope from Soaring at Basel (Artinfo)

Polaroid Evening Sale Highlights

June 22, 2010 by Katherine Jentleson

Yesterday evening’s sale of photographs from the Polaroid collection totaled $7,197,438 at Sotheby’s New York. Every single lot sold, many above estimate. Here are some of the highlights:

The Fame Game

June 21, 2010 by Katherine Jentleson

For all the art-loving Bravo addicts out there, Artinfo is doing exit interviews with Work of Art’s weekly losers.  Like most recent Bravo shows, Work of Art is a big slice of guilty of pleasure, whose layers feature a touch of cultural zeitgeist, a healthy helping of pure spectacle and a thick coating of delicious despicability. In Artinfo’s Q&A, the lastest artist to get the boot (Trung Nygu-yen),  challenges art worlders who are in a huff over the series to stop hating.

I know there are a lot of other artists and professionals and colleagues in the art world talking the show down and stuff, but if someone asked you to do the show, would you do it? It’s that kind of thing. Well, you have this great opportunity to experience this, why wouldn’t you do it? It’s the difference between living an active life and living a passive life. So I always go for the route of active.

Not sure that Nygu-yen’s gonna change anyone’s mind about the show with his active vs. passive argument. Perhaps a better tack to take is that it’s not like fame-mongering is something new for the art world, so why not just sit back and enjoy the show.

The “Work of Art” Exit Interview: Trong Nguyen (Artinfo)

Dimitris Daskalopoulos

June 21, 2010 by Katherine Jentleson

Colin Gleadell gets down with Dimitris Daskalopoulos, the Greek businessman whose collection is now on view at London’s Whitechapel Gallery. The collection of Daskalopoulos’s compatiot, Dakis Joannou, is enjoying a much shorter run time at New York’s New Museum, where it has been on display (curated by Jeff Koons) since March. Score one for Daskalopoulos, whose collection will be up at Whitechapel for nearly a year, until May 22, 2011.

But for Daskalopoulos collecting is not a contest… Or is it? Gleadell points out that many of the works in Daskalopoulos’s collection have had major auction moments, a common denominator which suggests that Daskalopoulos has a passion for competing in the fray of the auction salesroom (not to mention a propensity for coming out the victor).

The display reveals Daskalopoulos as a buyer of key works at auction over the years. Apart from the Duchamp, there is a phallic latex sculpture by Louise Bourgeois bought in 2004 for $455,500, the third highest price for Bourgeois at the time. Sarah Lucas’s Bunny Gets Snookered, (1997), was bought a year earlier for $163,500, a record for the British artist then. One of his more recent auction buys is Sherrie Levine’s polished bronze, Fountain (Buddha), cast in 1996 from a different urinal to Duchamp’s, for which he paid a double estimate $444,000 dollars in November 2008, just as the market was plunging into recession.

Dimitris Daskalopoulos interview (The Telegraph)

Polaroid Preview

June 20, 2010 by Katherine Jentleson

NPR previews Sotheby’s forthcoming Polaroid sale via audio feed, online summary and slideshow.  This collection of photographs is voluminous and high quality enough to merit a two-pronged evening-to-day-sale structure (which is extremely rare in the photography category): The 1,200-plus lot auction will begin at Sotheby’s tomorrow at 5 p.m. and continue in a 10 a.m. session on Tuesday.

Despite judicial sanctification of the sale, its imminent dispersal of a museum-quality collection is still very controversial, especially among the artists whose works comprise the collection.  John Reuter, a photographer with many pieces in the collection, albeit none that will be included in the approaching Sotheby’s sessions, laments the sale, and its circumstances in NPR’s story:

“Having been through the dissolution of the company,” he says, “not only is my work in the collection and I can’t get it, and a lot of it was my best work, at certain periods of my life, but I also saw people who were incredible people who made this film and made Polaroid a great company, lose their jobs for no good reason really. So the auction is almost the funeral in a way, because it is the last act in the dissolution of Polaroid.”

What’s A Picture Worth? Polaroid Auctions Photos (NPR)

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