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Art Miami 2018 Sales Report

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MIAMI, FL – DECEMBER 04: Guests line up outside of Art Miami VIP Preview, CONTEXT Art Miami VIP Preview at Art Miami Pavilion on December 4, 2018 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Jason Koerner/Getty Images for Art Miami)

The sales at Art Miami seem to keep growing. In their new location for a second year, the fair may be best suited to anchor Miami Art Week with its accessible price points and popular material.

Berry Campbell Gallery

  • sold Desert Wall, Cave #96, 1986 for $175,000 and Horses at Pech-Merle (Cave #20), 1984 for $95,000, both by Elaine de Kooning
  • Untitled, 1975 by Larry Poons for $80,000
  • 7-X-79, 1979 by Alfonso Ossorio for $75,000
  • Villanova, 1990 by Dan Christensen for $65,000
  • Unctionpaleinbalmofsnows, 1979 by Stanley Boxer for $55,000
  •  Imola Three IV (Circuit Series), 1984 by Frank Stella for $35,000
  • All prices listed are retail

ARCHEUS / POST-MODERN

  • “We made a large number of sales in the sub-$100,000 bracket, particularly for the work of David Hockney with five rare prints selling, including his ‘Coloured Flowers made of Paper and Ink.’ Other artists selling in this range included Ed Ruscha, Lynn Chadwick, Bridget Riley, Yuko Nishimura, Jesús Rafael Soto, Jonas Wood and a sculpture by young Belgian artist Saskia De Tollenaere, whose sculptural homage to Frida Kahlo was bought by an important corporate collection.”

Galerie Terminus

  • placed Women, 2007 by Sigmar Polke for $3.8-million dollars
  • Knüpfung mit Kieselsteinen, 1970 by Herbert Zangs for $46,000

Osborne Samuel Gallery 

  • sold Henry Moore’s Reclining Figure, 1946 for approximately $1-million dollars.

Michael Schultz Gallery

  • sold Electric Chair Series, 1973 by Andy Warhol for $540,000
  • Flieg Vogel Flieg, 2018 by Cornelia Schleime for $77,000
  • Flag, 2018, by Udo Nöger for $67,000
  • two works by SEO: Die Faltung der Wirklichkeit, 2017, for $64,000 and Untitled, 2017 for $60,000

Cernuda Arte 

  • more than 20 sales, including Fish, 1955, by Amelia Peláez for $500,000, How Can I Escape from Time, 2006, by Miguel Florido
  • Path to Perfection, 2007, by Sandro de la Rosa
  • a piece by Manuel Mendive, a piece by Roberto Diago
  • two works by Irina E. Gonzalez

Hollis Taggart

  • placed 15 works in total, including a 1956 watercolor by Sam Francis for more than $500,000
  • two Alexander Calder works for approximately $100,000 each
  • a Theodoros Stamos piece for approximately $100,000
  • a Ron Gorchov for approximately $50,000 range
  • two small sculptures by Pablo Atchugarry for $40,000 and $55,000
  • a small Mark Tobey work on paper for $40,000
  • two Michael (Corinne) West works for $40,000 and $30,000.

Emmanuel Fremin Gallery

  • placed 22 pieces totaling $400,000 in sales, including seven works by Drew Tal.

Nikola Rukaj Gallery 

  • pieces from Alex Katz’s Coca-Cola Girls series for more than $150,000

VERTES 

  • sold a work by Sam Francis priced at approximately $120,000

CHASE CONTEMPORARY 

  • paintings by Liu Shuishi for approximately $100,000
  • a Peter Beard for $90,000
  • an Ole Aakjær for approximately $30,000

Sims Reed Gallery 

  • prints of Le Cow-boy, Le Cirque, Le Clown, and L’Enterrement de Pierrot from Henri Matisse’s iconic Jazz series for a total of approximately $100,000
  • Andy Warhol’s Electric Chair, screen print in colors, 1971
  • several works David Hockney, Bridget Riley, Terry Frost, Humphrey Ocean and Declan Jenkins

Grosvenor Gallery 

  • Humming Birds, 2018, by Senaka Senanayakefor $80,000

Pan American Art Projects

  •  Untitled, 1985 by Louise Nevelson for $75,000

JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY 

  • sold six different works from Skylar Fein’s Giant Metal Matchbooks series, 2016-2017, for a total of $60,000

Andrea Schwartz Gallery

  • Dream ⅕ by Julian Voss-Andreae for $58,000
  • Champagne Supernova by Piero Spadaro
  • Stacked by Tim Yankosky

RUDOLF BUDJA GALLERY 

  • placed Reincarnation, 2018 by Wulf Treu for $55,000.

AMS – XS 

  • sold Nicolás Radic’s Aluminio, 2018, for $40,000, and Aluminum folded, 2018.

Onishi Gallery 

  • sold Innocent Forest 06, 2018 for $30,000
  • Blood 4, 2017 by Shun Sudo
  • Rising Dragon, 2017 by Tokuda Yasokichi IV
  • Glumon #0.1.1, 2016 by NAOYA
  • POI 01, 2018 by Yusuke Ochiai

David Klein Gallery

  • placed Sphinx, Chimera, and Dangerous Liaisons, all 2018 by Rosalind Tallmadge, for a total of $30,000

Galerie Ernst Hilger 

  • two sculptures by Alex Katz from 2018, each for $30,000
  • a variety of Shepard Fairey pieces ranging in price up to $25,000

David Benrimon Fine Art 

  • several works by Mel Bochner, including Amazing, 2018, Blah Blah, Blah, 2018, Haha, 2017, and Thank You, 2018
  • The Book of Love: One Plate, 1997 by Robert Indiana
  • Ballerina, from Portfolio California, 1988, by Ed Ruscha
  • Apple (F. & S. II 359), 1985 by Andy Warhol
  • Untitled, 1966 and Study for Great American Nude #66, 1965, both by Tom Wesselmann

C24 Gallery

  • Mike Dargas painting, Bee Loved, 2018
  •  Katja Loher video sculpture, Who will paint the white canvas of the bleached corals?, 2018

Cynthia Corbett Gallery

  • seven pieces of Andy Burgess’ Modernist House series and his new Abstract Aspen works
  • debuted Isabelle van Zeijl’s The One photography project featuring Flower Orchid, of which three editions from a total of seven were placed

Goya Contemporary Gallery 

  • a work by Joyce J. Scott

Jean Albano Gallery 

  • Bonnie Lautenberg’s 1952 Singin’ in the Rain / Yayoi Kusama, The Sea, archival pigment print, 1 of 6, 2001 Shrek / Fernando Botero, Nude in Mirror, archival pigment print, 1 of 6
  • Klari Reis’ Multicolour Petri dish series was placed, as were three ceramic wall-displayed flower pieces by Zemer Peled
  • paintings by Eleanor Watson.

LICHT FELD Gallery

  • ArtStudent, 2014 and Turkishbath, 2008 by Marck
  •  Madeoff, 2014, Edition 2 of 3, by Fredy Hadorn.

Priveekollektie Contemporary Art | Design 

  • Bloomed Wall, 2017 and Ruffled, 2014-2017 by Dominic Harris
  • Dew, 2017and Ink Writer, 2017 by Reinier Bosch
  • From the knees of my nose to the belly of my toes, 2018, Growing up gets me down, 2018, and Open to the public, 2018 by Alex Chinneck

Sladmore 

  • Poisson ‘Alma’ (Fish), 2018, by Edouard Martinet 
  • No. 174 Boxing Boy with Hat, 2018, by Mario Dilitz

Art Basel Miami Beach Sales Report

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Katya Kazakina wraps up her Art Basel Miami Beach coverage with a story that suggests the fair might have been pretty quiet on the sales front. Christophe van de Weghe claimed to have had his best ABMB ever (which is a common line to hear from dealers after nearly every fair) where he sold works by Warhol, Wesselman and Picasso totaling $28m after claiming to have sold a $17m Picasso on the first day (see below.)

The tone and tenor of the other comments Kazakina got from dealers, collector-dealers and collectors—along with the talk of paintings familiar from previous fairs and recent auctions—suggests the fair was slower and the private market is sparser than some dealers would like to project.

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Venus Over Manhattan Brings Maryan Personnage Paintings to Art Basel in Miami Beach

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Venus Over Manhattan announce their Art Basel Miami Beach exhibition of Maryan’s “Personnage” paintings from his time in New York in the late 1960s and early 1970s:

Venus Over Manhattan is pleased to announce its inaugural presentation at Art Basel Miami Beach, with a solo presentation of important paintings by Maryan. The exhibition will be on view from December 5th through 9th, 2018, at booth S5 at the Miami Beach Convention Center.

Venus’ presentation at ABMB will be a focused survey of Maryan’s “Personnage” paintings from 1967-1972. They include large-scale works on canvas and an important suite of works on paper. Maryan began exploring the “Personnage” series while living in Paris in the 1950s. Characterized by a centrally located figure dominating the composition, the works quickly established Maryan’s reputation for using abstract techniques to render boisterously figurative subject matter. The paintings made in Maryan’s Paris years feature somber characters cast against subdued color palettes. It wasn’t until Maryan’s relocation from Paris to New York in 1963, that the “Personnage” works transition from dark to color and action filled: a clear reflection of the artist’s renewed outlook.

At a moment when non-representational painting dominated popular tastes, Maryan’s work rejected total abstraction, and helped to reintroduce the figure into contemporary painting, alongside his peers Karel Appel, Enrico Baj, and Jean Dubuffet. The works on view, produced in New York between 1967 and 1972, feature a group of lurid and fleshy characters, adjoined with extra legs, strange appendages, and slobbering tongues. Variously depicting anonymous tangles of excess limbs, bestial figures, and salivating animals, the works attest to Maryan’s abiding interest in disassembling familiar features of the human form to produce confrontational and often violent compositions.

Born Pinchas Burstein to a Jewish family in Nowy-Saçz, Poland, Maryan was the only member of his family to survive the Holocaust. He lived in Israel for two years after the war, and moved to Paris in 1951, where he enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts, and studied under Fernand Léger. Though he denied the reduction of his work to his trauma as a Holocaust survivor, Maryan’s private life and artistic practice were deeply influenced by his experience of the war: his works from the “Personnage” series often make reference to an unnamed violence, whose source remains hidden. The “Personnage” works collectively represent the most striking realization of Maryan’s unprecedented fusion of abstraction and figuration, and with little exception, the series consumed the artist until his death at the Chelsea Hotel, in 1977.

In conjunction with the presentation, Venus Over Manhattan will also publish a small catalogue featuring images of the works on view, as well historical writings about Maryan’s work.

Di Donna Brings Calder & Miró to Art Basel in December

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Alexander Calder, Crag with Yellow Boomerang and Red Eggplant (1974)
Di Donna Galleries has released its presentation for Art Basel Miami Beach which begins a little later this year due to the early arrival of Thanksgiving. Some art market denizens’ families will be extra thankful this year for the lower stress levels. Here’s a list of what Di Donna is bringing to the fair:
  • A striking standing mobile by Alexander Calder, Crag with Yellow Boomerang and Red Eggplant (1974), which playfully engages the tension between the concrete and ephemeral aspects of nature, as floating and bouncing elements ring a jagged, dark mountain shape.
  • Leonor Fini’s painting La Prison de Zigriphine (1975), an exquisite demonstration of Fini’s mastery of enigmatic portraiture and her technical skill in rendering light and translucency.
  • Le Combat (de Tancrède et de Clorinde) (1934) by Kurt Seligmann, a dynamic painting featuring figures cloaked in swirling drapery that conjures the movement of drama and combat.
  • Rudolf Bauer’s Counter Fugue (1937-38), which exemplifies the artist’s use of music as a metaphor in geometric compositions, representing the crescendos and rests that naturally occur in the physical world.
  • Joan Miró’s Figure with Bird (1977). Miró challenged the tradition of painting in general by eliminating traces of illusionism at the level of construction. In Figure with Bird, he left visible the wood support and a perimeter of protruding nails around expressive brushwork in primary colors, leaving the subject abstractly rendered.
  • The gallery will also present significant works by Agustín Cárdenas, Leonora Carrington, César, Lynn Chadwick, Marc Chagall, Max Ernst, Auguste Herbin, David Hockney, Hans Hofmann, Wassily Kandinsky, François-Xavier Lalanne, Claude Lalanne, René Magritte, André Masson, Matta, Joan Mitchell, Man Ray, Charles Green Shaw, Georges Valmier, and Andy Warhol.

The Fine Art Print Fair Sales Report

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Over 12,000 visitors attended the Fine Art Print Fair’s 80 exhibitors last weekend. Twenty-seven international galleries participated from the United Kingdom, Spain, France, Germany, Mexico, Switzerland, Denmark, Italy and Ireland. There were five first-time exhibitors as well.

Sims Reed Gallery

  • sold an early David Hockney portfolio, “A Hollywood Collection,” which was acquired by a private American collector. The set was sold for
    just under $60,000
  • Sol LeWitt Grids and Colors portfolio for $50,000. This was LeWitt’s sole publication of prints in 1979. The edition is small — an edition of 10, and there were also five artist’s proofs.
  • Roy Lichtenstein Water Lily for just under $40,000

Thomas French Fine Art

  • sold Matisse, Corot, Lichtenstein, Picasso, Warhol and Duchamp
  • sold out many small editions of Stewards drypoints

Mary Ryan Gallery

  • Sam Gilliam’s work entitled “Phase,” 1974, screenprint, edition of 16
  • sold three prints by Emma Amos, including “3 Ladies,” 1970, to museums
  • the British Museum has acquired for the lithograph “February,” 1958, by George Miyasaki

Childs Gallery

  • Jean-Michel Basquiat’s “Untitled (Emok)” from Portfolio I, 1982/2001, Screenprint, 40×40 in.
  • sold Lee Krasner’s “Twenty-four Hours Light,” 1979/80, Oil and crayon collage on lithograps

Poligrafa Obra Grafica

  • sold an edition of Jordi Alcraz, “Paritura,” 2018, Pigment and cord on cardboard, from an edition of 14 for $15,000

Susan Sheehan Gallery

  • sold a work by Sam Francis, “The White Line,” 1960, lithograph, edition of 75 for $40,000

Ruiz-Healy Art

  • sold the serigraph “Iron Will” by Margarita Cabrera to the Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College

Dolan/Maxwell 

  • sold a rare and important plaster by Stanley William Hayter, as well as works by Picasso, Miró, Masson and Tanguy. Notable new works that were purchased include pieces by Victoria Burge, Michael Canning, and Nona Hershey. Museum sales included a special impression by Norma Morgan and a lithograph from
    the 1960’s by Charles White

Hauser & Wirth

  • Sales highlights included over 40 of their new Hauser & Wirth edition by Rashid Johnson, released to coincide with the fair, including “Untitled Anxious Crowd,” 2018

Two Palms

  • two Stanley Whitney monotypes
  • one Cecily Brown monotype
  • two Terry Winters monotypes
  • a Jeff Koons “Gazing Ball” prin
  • three Mel Bochner monotypes
  • Numerous editioned works from Dana Schutz, Elizabeth Peyton and Terry
    Winters were also sold by the gallery at the Fair to private collectors

Durham Press, Inc.

  • sold several Beatriz Milhazes prints, including “Purple Dahlia,” 2015 for
    $52,000
  • sold several suites of Chitra Ganesh’s “Sultana’s Dream” with several on hold for
    museums. The project consists of 27 linocuts and retails for $18,000 for the suite

Goya Contemporary/Goya-Girl Press

  • sold six impressions of Sanford Biggers‘s “Afropick,” 2005, mostly to institutions

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Hirschl & Adler Galleries

  • sold Gilbert Stuart’s (1755–1828) George Washington (The Munro-Lenox Portrait)

Haboldt · Pictura

  • sold Luca Cambiaso’s (1527-1585) A Portrait of a Young Gentleman in Armor, possibly a Member of the Doria Family, a holding a Baton (1570)
  • Jacob Jordaens’ (1593-1678) Mercury, standing, seen from Behind
  • Julius Porcellis’s (1610-1654) Three-masters in a Gale
  • Cornelis Ketel’s (1548-1616) Portrait of a Man aged 52. (probably) Jacob
    Jansz Banninck
  • Jacob van Ruisdael (1628-1682) A River Landscape with Cottages and Figures

Taylor | Graham 

  • sold Leon-Ernest Drivier’s (1878-1951) L’Ombre et la Lumiere (1910)

Blumka Gallery & Julius Bohler

  • sold Attr. to Balthasar Permoser’s (1651-1732) A Pilgrim as a Memento Mori

Maria Kiang Chinese Art

  • sold A Rootwood Scrollrest to contemporary artist Ai Weiwei

Peter Finer

  • sold A Parade Shield For The Trabantenleibgaride, Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg

Ronald Phillips

  • sold Thomas Chippendale’s (1718-1779) A George II Giltwood Eagle as well as A George III Ormolu Mounted White Painted Oval WineCooler

Sebastian Izzard LLC.

  • sold Katsukawa Shun’ei (1762-1819) Actors in a theatrical scene on a riverbank
  • Ryukosai Jokei (1777-1809) A full-length portrait of the actor Ichikawa Danzo IV in a theatrical role

Daxer & Marschall

  • sold Georges Seurat’s (1859-1891) Un Soir, Gravelines (1890) to a private collector

Tomasso Brothers Fine Art

  • sold Figure of a Grieving Youth dating to the first half of the 16th century

Benjamin Proust – Fine Art Limited

  • sold a Cycladic Head (2600 – 2500 BC)

Jorge Welsh Works Of Art

  • sold a Chinese export porcelain Qing dynasty, Qianlong (1736-1795) dinner service
  • Kangxi (1662-1722) underglaze blue porcelain, Chinese Famille Rose porcelain
  • examples of Chinese painted enamel on copper varying from 5 to 6 figures prices

Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker LTD

  • sold Sir Joshua Reynolds’ (1723-1792) Elizabeth Rolleston With Her Son Samuel (1776)

Carlo Orsi-Trinity Fine Art

  • sold Guiseppe Maria Mazza’s (1653-1741) Portrait of a Young Nobleman to a private collector for a seven figure asking price
  • Pseudo Caroselli’s A Sorceress with the Head of Medusa, the birth of Pegasus in the background

Aronson Antiquairs

  • sold Delftware Pair of Polychrome Groups of Two Gentlemen in a Boat to a private collector in the range of $100,000

Burzio

  • sold Georges Jacob’s (1739-1814) The Etruscan Chair (Siege A L’Antique) to a private collector of Jacob’s work

A. Aardewerk Antiquair Juwelier

  • sold Adam van Vianen’ s (1568– 1627) Galatea Salt (Utrecht 1624)

Kunstkammer Georg Laue

  • sold Leonhard Kern’s (1588-1662) Pieta (1615) and Girl (1635)

Jaime Eguiguren

  • sold Christoph Gertner’s (1580 – 1623) painting Adoration of the Shepherds

Talabardon & Gautier

  • sold Pierre Puvis De Chavannes’ (1824-1898) St. Radegonde Taking the Veil

Macconnal-Mason

  • sold Interior, Light of Spring by artist Carl Vilhelm Holsoe (1863-1935)

Charles Ede

  • sold the Roman bronze lion head handles (1st-2nd century AD)
  • Roman bronze lamp stand (1st-2nd century AD)
  • Egyptian terracotta rippled bowl (Early 3rd millennium BC)

Wildenstein & Co. Inc.

  • sold French painter Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun’s (1755-1842) Portrait of the Duc de Riviere (1828)

Maria Kiang Chinese Art

  • sold A Zitan ‘Lotus Leaf’ Tray and An Agate Mallow-shaped Cup With Handle

Elle Shushan

  • sold Henry Bone, R.A.’s (1775-1834) Jane, Duchess of Gordon

Galleria Carlo Virgilio & Co.

  • sold Caterina de Julianis’ (1670-1743) Penitent Magdalene (1717)

Stephen Ongpin Fine Art

  • sold Andres-Jean Le Brun’s (1757-1811) An Allegory of the Arts Vanquishing Time, Surmounted by a Medallion Portrait of King Stanislaw August of Poland as Patron of the Arts

Tomasso Brothers Fine Art

  • sold Foot of Mercury in white marble, dating to the 1st-2nd century AD, priced in the region of $350,000
  • an early dog portrait by the Dutch still life artist Dirck de Horn, titled Spaniels and Pointer in a Landscape

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Magnus Renfrew launches his new fair Taipei Dangdai in Taiwan on January 18, 2019. The fair features 90 galleries from Asia, Europe and North America. Dealers David Zwirner, Thaddaeus Ropac, Edouard Malingue, Gagosian, Gallery Hyundai, Kukje, Lisson, Massimo de Carlo, Whitestone, White Cube, Tomio Koyama, Tang Contemporary, Spruth Mägers, Sadie Coles, Sean Kelly, Simon Lee , Perrotin, Pearl Lam and Longmen Art Projects are among the participants.

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FIAC 2018 Sales Report

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Scott Reyburn has these sales:

Gagosian

  • sold more than 10 of the spray-painted works on paper that the Berlin-based artist Katharina Grosse had produced for FIAC, marked at 40,000 to 50,000 euros, or $46,000 to $57,000.

David Kordansky

  • $250,000 paid for the 2018 circular cast polyester sculpture “Untitled (Parabolic Lens)” by Fred Eversley

Kenny Schachter recorded this sale:

Buchholtz

  • sold an R.H. Quaytman for $150,000

The galleries reported these sales themselves:

Hauser & Wirth

  • Rashid Johnson Untitled Anxious Audience Ceramic tile, black soap, wax USD 245,000.00 to a French foundation
  • Rashid Johnson  Untitled Anxious Audience 2018 Ceramic tile, black soap, wax USD 315,000.00
  • Philip Guston Martyr 1978 Oil on canvas USD 6,000,000
  • Louise Bourgeois Les matins se lèvent 2010 Etching, watercolor, gouache, ink and pencil on paper USD 2,500,000
  • Louise Bourgeois  Untitled 2005 Fabric USD 350,000
  • Günther Förg Untitled 1995 Acrylic on canvas EUR 175,000
  • Louise Bourgeois  Pregnant Woman 2007 Gouache on paper USD 100,000
  • Philippe Vandenberg No title 2009 Charcoal and chalk on paper EUR 18,000

David Zwirner

  • works by Harold Ancart ($150,000), Carol Bove ($500,000), Gordon Matta-Clark ($30,000), Sherrie Levine ($240,000) and Richard Serra ($350,000) with prominent European collections

Pace Gallery

  • Song Dong’s Usefulness of Uselessness – Varied Window No. 6 2017, $98,000 to European collectors
  • Zhang Xiaogang’s oil on paper with paper collage, Mirror No. 3, 2018, to European collectors $220,000
  • two works by Ma Quisha for $26,000 each
  • Hu Xiaoyuan pine, ink, raw silk and paint, for $90,000

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac

  • Jack Pierson, The Pretty Girl Likes Me 2018 sold for $185,000
  • Elizabeth Peyton watercolor on paper ($95,000)
  • Daniel Richter €260,000
  • Antony Gormley sculpture (£350,000 or about $460,000)
  • Georg Baselitz painting 2018 for €350,000

Spruth Magers

  • Rosemarie Trockel screenprint 1994 €185,000
  • photograph by Cindy Sherman $300,000
  • Thomas Demand photographic work €75,000

Frieze 2018 Sales Report

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Eddie Martinez, Peach Beach (2018) from Timothy Taylor's sold out solo show of the artist's work

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Hauser + Wirth

Frieze Masters

  • Arshile Gorky Untitled, Head (1936–1942) Oil on canvas USD 1,600,000  to a U.S. Collection
  • Lucian Freud, The Painter's Mother (1940) Ink on paper USD 155,000
  • Henry Moore, Portrait of Stephen Spender (1934) Pen and ink, chalk, brush and ink, wash GBP 50,000

Frieze London

  • Keith Tyson, Entangled Still Life (2018) Oil on Aluminium USD 100,000
  • Rashid Johnson, Untitled Escape Collage 2018  USD 215,000
  • Lorna Simpson, Blue Earth/Sky 2018 Ink and screenprint on gessoed wood panel USD 375,000 to a British collection
  • Matthew Day Jackson, Flowers in a Vase (2018) Textile, silkscreen, watercolor, woodblock print, pigment print on paper European collection.

Galerie Ropac

  • Robert Longo Untitled (Forever; Hydrangea, Beethoven's Love Letter #9), 2018 sold for $800,000
  • Tom Sachs  Luggage (Rimowa), 2016  sold for $160,000

Artnet's Julia Halperin had these sales:

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Art Basel Sales Report 2018

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New and interesting takes on the sales at Art Basel keep coming even though the fair is now over.

Here's Sam Orlofsky on Twitter talking about a major shift in demand:

Artsy wraps up the fair with some more PR work by Marc Spiegel trying to deflect the issue of whether Art Basel is responsible for the pressures on independent galleries, including the first mentions of the fair's editorial initiatives which have added cost to the firm with dozens of new hires but yet to really leverage the fair's massive social media footprint.

Here are the sales Artsy gathered:

Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects

  • one new collector had seen a painting by Sadie Benning featured on Art Basel’s website, then came and bought it
  • sold four other Sadie Benning paintings
  • three Charles Gaines tree works
  • a painting by Nicole Eisenman
  • three paintings by Samuel Levi Jones
  • a large selection of over a dozen photographs by Pope.L that all went to a single collector in Vancouver.
  • Prices in the booth started at around $10,000 and went up to around $200,000

Kate McGarry Gallery

  • three sets of Samson Kambalu’s Mboya Series (2016) for £15,000 each
  • some of B. Wurtz’s pan paintings for £4,000 to £7,500
  • Francis Upritchard’s Octopus with Fish (2017), which had appeared in last year’s Venice Biennale, for £30,000, as well as several works not on the booth

Pilar Corrias

  • a corner painting by Madani
  • a glass mosaic work, Zarina, from a new series by Sikander for $90,000
  • a set of Ian Cheng drawings; a painting by Self
  • another painting by Quarles, with prices in the booth from $20,000 to €250,000

Melanie Gerlis had these sales in the Financial Times:

Maureen Paley

  • Rebecca Warren’s painted bronze “Aurelius” (2017) to a foundation in Spain (£380,000)

Paula Cooper

  • Christian Marclay’s “80 East 11th Street” (1990-91), a painted wooden door and sound recording, which went to a US collector ($500,000)

A confusing mix of impressions continue to come out from Art Basel as dealers plump for this year's fair. Observers inside the fair like Josh Baer have remarked upon high asking prices which, he concludes, may have offset diminishing sales, especially for second-tier or ancillary objects like drawings or preparatory works.

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