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TEFAF 2019 Sales Report

March 18, 2019 by Marion Maneker

The International New York Times’s correspondent, Scott Reyburn, recorded these sales at TEFAF:

  • a newly discovered painting by the 18th-century British artist Joseph Wright of Derby, shown by a London dealership, Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker, Two Boys with a Bladder was priced at £3 million to £4 million and sold to an undisclosed institution
  • Bob Haboldt had a Madonna and Child by Paolo Veneziano was offered at 1.45 million euros, or about $1.64 million, and quickly sold to a European collector.
  • Berlin-based print dealer Nicolaas Teeuwisse brought a rare early 19th-century lithograph of a Brazilian rain forest by Johann Moritz Rugendas, whose pioneering South American studies were praised by the Prussian naturalist and explorer, Alexander von Humboldt. Priced at €12,000, the Rugendas piece was bought by the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

Dickinson

  • Femme nue couchée by Pierre-Auguste Renoir sold to a private collector

John Endlich Antiquairs

  • An 18th-century Doll’s House, known as Anna Maria Tripp’s House, which has remained in the same family for many generations, since it was first made, was sold by to a Foundation which will lend it to a Dutch museum on a long term loan

Sprüth Magers

  • Rosemarie Trockel, Birthmark, 2019, was sold to a private collector

Galerie Gmurzynska

  • sale of a work by El Lissitzky, Self Portrait (Der Konstrukteur) which went to a private buyer

Galleria d’arte Maggiore

  • sale of, Paesaggio, 1943 by Giorgio Morandi to a public collection

Robilant + Voena

  • a very rare early work by Lucio Fontana, a glazed ceramic Madonna with gold varnish, which had an asking price of € 650,000
  • a work attributed to Antonio Tempesta entitled, Siege for a price in the region of € 95,000

Bijl-Van Urk B.V.

  • sold in excess of 8 works during the first three hours, including a pair of paintings
    Fluyten and Other Three-Masters in Choppy Weather, c.1648-53, by Heerman Witmont (1605- 1684), which had remained with the same family for over 350 years and have now been sold to a private collector

Fondantico Di Tiziana Sassoli

  • sold a painting entitled Hercules and Omphale by the Late Baroque and early Neoclassical painter Gaetano Gandolfi from Bologna, one of the most important 18th-century Italian painters of the period, to a private collector

Dr. Jörn Günther Rare Books AG

  • sold a number of objects including two items to a major museum in Tokyo, which were a leaf from a scroll on vellum entitled Compendium Historiae in Genealogia Christi, England, c.1280, by Peter of Poitiers (1130-1205) and a miniature on vellum decorated in tempera and gold entitled, David in waters and God in Heaven, Paris, c. 1320.

Symbolic & Chase

  • sold a pair of JAR earrings made from diamond and natural pearl, 2010, and a natural
    pearl and diamond brooch by Sabba, dated 2014, with a total value for both items of just under
    $2 million

Bel Etage

  • a table lamp designed by Erna Kopriva executed by Wiener Werkstätte, c.1902, which was sold to a private collector based in Berlin and also a Viennese showcase made from bent beech and plywood decorated with brass and mirrored glass, c.1902 by the manufacturer J. & J. Kohn, which sold to a Russian private collector

Laffanour Galerie Downtown

  • sold a five-seat sofa which combined Alpine and Japanese elements designed by the French architect Charlotte Perriand to a private collector

Kallos Gallery

  • sold a fine Greek bronze statue of Zeus from the 4th century BC. This solid cast bronze figure of the god standing naked had an asking price of €500k and sold to a private collector

Frieze LA Sales Report

February 14, 2019 by Marion Maneker

Lisson Gallery, Frieze Los Angeles 2019
Photo by Mark Blower. Courtesy of Mark Blower/Frieze

Artsy had these sales:

Lisson Gallery

  • sold Sean Scully, Landline Magenta (2018) for $1.2 million

Lehmann Maupin

  • sold Shirazeh Houshiary’s large-scale sculpture Lunate (2018), which  sold for $479,000
  • the gallery also says Houshiary’s work grossed over $1.3 million by the fair’s end

Jack Shainman Gallery

  • Nick Cave, Arm Piece (2018), sold for $110,000

Maureen Paley 

  • A large Wolfgang Tillmans photo sold for $150,000

Sprüth Magers

  • Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Stripe 1) (2019) sold for $480,000
  • Bridget Riley, Measure for Measure 25 (2018) sold for £450,000 (approx. $580,000) 
  • Louise Lawler, Formica(2011/2012/2015) sold for $175,000

Mike Kelley’s “Unisex Love Nest” is heading back to Europe, @HauserWirth selling it to a foundation for $1.8m @FriezeArtFair

— Kelly Crow (@KellyCrowWSJ) February 14, 2019

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac

  • Antony Gormley “State XXV”, 2017 £ 400.000
  • Antony Gormley “Contain”, 2015 £ 400.000
  • Andy Warhol “Georgia O’Keeffe”, 1980, $ 875.000
  • Alex Katz “CK 23, 2017” $ 750.000
  • Erwin Wurm “Bag Walking”, 2017 € 180.000
  • Ali Banisadr “Rhizome”, 2019 $ 225.000
  • Robert Longo “Study of white flowers/with Beethoven page 9, 2018 $ 65.000

Bloomberg had these sales:

David Kordansky Gallery

  • sold almost its whole booth— a solo presentation by Kathryn Andrews. Prices started at $40,000 and reached $110,000 for her sculpture featuring a hand prop from “Terminator 2: Judgment Day”

Kayne Griffin Corcoran

  • said the Hammer Museum bought a charcoal drawing by Mary Corse, with the asking price of $150,000
  • A light piece by James Turrell, priced at $350,000, also went quickly

303 Gallery

  • sold two works by L.A. artist Doug Aitken, including a $250,000 lightbox depicting a blue swimming pool glowing against hills in black silhouette

The fair gathered these sales:

Levy Gorvy 

  • reported Günther Uecker’s Spirale III(2002) was sold with an asking price of $1.2m USD
  • Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Nets (B-A-Y), 2001 was sold with an asking price of $1.6m USD
  • Pat Steir’s oil on canvas Mauve and Green Spring Sea with Stars of Many Colors, 1998 has also been placed

Thomas Dane Gallery 

  • sold a range of works including Lynda Benglis, Ella Kruglayanskya, Glenn Ligon and Anya Gallaccio
  • Three Hurvin Anderson works, a mix of primary and secondary, sold ranging from 160,000 GBP to 1,500,000 GBP

L.A. Louver 

  • sold many works from their solo presentation of Gajin Fujita, including paintings at $40,000, $45,000 and $250,000

Blum & Poe 

  • placed most works in their group presentation with Friedrich Kunath, Julian Hoeber, Mimi Lauter, Shio Kusaka, Matt Johnson and Mark Grotjahn, with one painting by Grotjahn selling for $600,000

Pace

  • reported sales across a broad price range, spanning from several drawings by Loie Hollowell for $15,000 each
  • a 1967 painting by Alex Katz in the seven figures
  • a 2017 pin drawing by Tara Donovan for $225,000
  • a 1967 work on paper by Alexander Calder for $200,000
  • a 2018 painting by Adam Pendleton for $120,000
  • two paintings by Loie Hollowell for $80,000 and $30,000.

Gallery Hyundai

  • many works sold and on reserve in a price range of $75,000–$93,000,

Park View / Paul Soto 

  • sold out of his booth of works by Los Angeles-based artist Mark A. Rodriguez

Mark Selwyn 

  • two works placed by American artist Allen Ruppersberg, one of which was priced at $50,000.

Anat Ebgi 

  • sold out of their group presentation of Faith Wilding, Jordan Nassar, Alec Egan, Caroline Walker, Janet Werner, with works priced between the range of $11,000 to $35,000

Freedman Fitzpatrick

  • sold a range of works from their group presentation, priced between $5,000 to $25,000.

Chateau Shatto 

  • sold works by young artists including a $7,500 work by Aria Dean
  • a series of paintings priced at $4,000 by Van Hanos
  • multiple paintings by Parker Ito at $35,000

Almine Rech 

  • sold three Vivian Springfield color field paintings priced between $50,000 and $75,000

Ropac Has Longo, Rosenquist and Castoro at Frieze LA

February 13, 2019 by Marion Maneker

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac is bringing a selection of works to Frieze LA including this Rosemary Castoro, above, work on offer for $200,000.

  • Rosemarie Castoro, a pioneer in the context of Minimalism and Conceptualism and a central figure in the 1960s New York avant-garde, is represented with one of her exceptional early paintings Orange Ochre Purple Yellow Y (1965). Long overshadowed by her male peers, Castoro is a revelation to today’s audiences. Her first museum retrospective was at MACBA in 2017 and her solo show at Ropac Paris opens on 21 February.

Other featured artists include Irving Penn, Robert Longo with a new work specifically for this fair, Jack Pierson and Tom Sachs. There will also be new works by Ali Banisadr, Marc Brandenburg, Alex Katz, Imi Knoebel, Jason Martin and David Salle, alongside historic works by Joseph Beuys, Rosemarie Castoro, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist and Andy Warhol, among others.

  • A rare, sought-after silkscreen portrait of Georgia O’Keeffe (1980) by Andy Warhol, which has been housed in private collection for three decades, commemorates the historic meeting in 1979 between the Pop superstar and the doyenne of American modernism then in her 90s.
  • Robert Longo’s monumental, larger-than-life Untitled (Harley Davidson) (2018) was created specially for the fair, using charcoal striations to convey the motion blur of a vehicle travelling at high speed.
  • In James Rosenquist’s major work Hot Sauce (2005), a plate of spaghetti against the backdrop of an exploding atom bomb.

Master Drawings New York Sales Report

February 13, 2019 by Marion Maneker

Helen Frankenthaler, Untitled, ~$130k

The 2019 edition of Master Drawings New York ended a few weeks ago. These sales were announced today:

Tomasso Brothers: 

  • Aubert-Henri-Joseph Parent (1753-1835) Switzerland, 1794; The Wettin Still-Life: Carved panel relief still life with a bird and a vase containing roses,lilacs, daisies and ranunculi, resting on a ledge bearing the arms of the House of Wettin; Limewood 27.5 cm (10 3⁄4 in.) high, excluding frame; SIGNED AND DATED ‘A.T PARENT. F. 1794.’ (lower edge)

Christopher Bishop Fine Art:

  • sold an important German drawing attributed to Cosmas Damian Asam (German 1686- 1739), Design for a Ceiling with Stories from the Life of the Magdalen, c. 1730 (396 x 296 mm), which is going back to Germany. The drawing, in red chalk, watercolor, grey and blue gouache highlighted in white, was intended for the ceiling of a German Baroque Church and has four scenes from the life and story of Mary Magdalen.

Stephen Ongpin:

  • sold Paul-Cesar Helleu’s (1859-1927) A Young Woman Seated at a Table in the region of $80,000
  • Helen Frankenthaler’s (1928-2011) Untitled in the region of $130,000
  • Piet Mondrian’s (1872-1944) Three Flower Blossoms, One a Chrysanthemum in the region of $300,000
  • Lorenzo Lippi’s (1606-1664) Study of a Seated Nude Girl in the region of $48,000

Taipei Dandai Sales Report

January 23, 2019 by Marion Maneker

Lisson Gallery

  • Anish Kapoor, Mirror (Garnet to Laser Red), 2017 Stainless steel and lacquer 160 x 160 x 17.5 cm 63 x 63 x 6 7/8 in £750,000
  • Julian Opie, Earphones., 2018 Silkscreen on painted wooden board 102 x 53 cm 40 1/8 x 20 3/4 in £35,000
  • Julian Opie,Split dress., 2018 Silkscreen on painted wooden board 100 x 59 cm 39 1/4 x 23 1/8 in £35,000
  • Stanley Whitney, Untitled, 2016 Crayon drawing 50 x 70 cm 19 5/8 x 27 1/2 in £20,000
  • Tatsuo Miyajima, Time Waterfall – panel #4 (white), 2018 Computer graphics, LED display 160 x 32 x 16 cm 62 7/8 x 12 1/2 x 6 1/4 in £80,000

Lehmann Maupin

  • Do Ho Suh, Refrigerator, Unit 2, 348 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011, USA, 2015
    polyester fabric, stainless steel wire, and glass display case with LED lighting
    86.61 x 46.06 x 47.64 inches (vitrine) 220 x 117 x 121 cm Sold between $200,000-220,000 to Asian collector

Spruth Magers

  • George Condo, Untitled, 2018 Sold for $350,000
  • George Condo, Dark Personage, 2017 Sold for $40,000
  • George Condo, Facing Each Other, 2017 Sold for $40,000
  • George Condo, Faces and Forms, 2017 Sold for $40,000
  • Cyprien Gaillard, Untitled, 2016 Sold for €75.000
  • David Ostrowski, F (Taktik an der Theke), 2017 Sold for €18.000

Hauser & Wirth

  • Günther Förg FORG 94289 Untitled 2007 Acrylic on canvas 195 x 230 cm / 76 3/4 x 90 1/2 in €475,000
  • Günther Förg, FORG 91935Untitled 2007 Acrylic on canvas 200 x 190 cm / 78 3/4 x 74 3/4 in €440,000
  • Günther Förg, FORG 93993 Untitled 2004 Acrylic on wood 24.1 x 28 x 1 cm / 9 1/2 x 11 x 3/8 in Mounted on wooden board: 41.5 x 52 x 2.8 cm / 16 3/8 x 20 1/2 x 1 1/8 in €38,000
  • Günther Förg FORG 93985 Untitled 2003 Acrylic on wood 28.1 x 21.1 x 1 cm / 11 1/8 x 8 1/4 x 3/8 in Mounted on wooden board: 51.1 x 41.5 x 2.8 cm / 20 1/8 x 16 3/8 x 1 1/8 in €35,000
  • Günther Förg, FORG 93988 Untitled 2003 Acrylic on wood 16.1 x 18 x 1 cm / 6 3/8 x 7 1/8 x 3/8 in Mounted on wooden board: 41.6 x 51.1 x 2.8 cm / 16 3/8 x 20 1/8 x 1 1/8 in €24,000
  • Günther Förg FORG 92405 Untitled 2006 Acrylic on canvas 150 x 130 cm / 59 x 51 1/8 in €250,000

David Zwirner

  • Yayoi Kusama painting from the Infinity Netsseries sold for over 1
    million USD
  • a work by Wolfgang Tillmans for 350,000 USD
  • Two Neo Rauch paintings sold at the fair on the first day for $650,000 & $325,000
  • All works were sold to local Taiwanese collectors
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