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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.

We’ve unscrambled our sales report to list everything by gallery:Continue Reading

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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