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AIPAD 2014 Sales Report

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AIPAD Photography Show New York 2014

AIPAD Released sales from this year’s show:

“It was a stunning exhibition of a wide range of photography, and the collectors were passionate, enthusiastic, and knowledgeable,” said Kraige Block, Throckmorton Fine Art, New York, who sold more than 20 works including a platinum print by Tina Modotti.

Robert Mann Gallery, New York, sold 20 works by Jeff Brouws, Julie Blackmon, Maroesjka Lavigne, and others, and commented on the great energy at the show. Terry Etherton, Etherton Gallery, Tucson, said the show was excellent and sold 22 works including a Frederick Sommer print for $40,000.

“The show has never looked better,” said Henry Feldstein of Henry Feldstein, Forest Hills, NY, who sold at least 20 prints by Weegee. “The look of the show was consistently high level. We saw many local collectors who are precious clients as well as people from across the U.S. and Europe,” said Richard Moore of Richard Moore Photographs, Oakland, CA, who sold 33 photographs including images by Ansel Adams.

“The show was very positive,” noted Hans Kraus of Hans P. Kraus, Jr., Inc. who sold albumen prints by Eugène Atget for $155,000 and Charles Marville for $30,000.

”It was an outstanding fair for us,” noted Bert Finger, PDNB Gallery, Dallas, who sold work by Elliott Erwitt, Stephen Shore, Nickolas Muray, and Earlie Hudnall Jr.

Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, sold work by Harry Callahan from $20,000 to $50,000.

Chuck Isaacs of Charles Isaacs Photographs, Inc., New York, said he sold work by Gustave Le Gray, Charles Marville, Eugène Atget, and Berenice Abbott.

Galerie Johannes Faber, Vienna, sold a 1933 portrait of Meret Oppenheim by Man Ray for $45,000.

Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, sold more than 20 prints by Vee Speers and work by Mona Kuhn as well as a number of others.

Martin Weinstein, Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, said, “We had a very good fair and sold work by Annie Leibovitz, Vera Lutter, Alec Soth, and Gordon Parks.”

Bryce Wolkowitz, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, sold work by Edward Burtynsky and several other artists and noted, “The show was great.”

AIPAD Sales Results

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Brook S. Mason gives the sales data on AIPAD in The Art Newspaper:

Overall, price points seemed lower for iconic vintage work.

  • At the Carmel, California Weston Gallery, a New York collector bagged a Paul Strand platinum print, Hacienda, Taos, New Mexico, 1921 for $70,000.
  • Plucked off the stand of Manhattan dealer Lawrence Miller by a Mid-West museum was a Julia Margaret Cameron albumen print Shadow of the Cross, 1865 for $25,000. […] Miller […] racked up 14 other sales including images by Helen Levitt, Robert Frank and Ray Metzger.
  • Collectors zeroed in on Robert Polidori’s evocative “Versailles” series with the Fifth Avenue Edwynn Houk Gallery. The photographer’s Portrait of Marie Antoinette, 1991 for $25,000 were already sold, as were images by Stephen Shore.

Especially prized was major work powered with LEDs and other technology, demonstrating that collectors have abandoned their sense of caution about newer materials.

  • Chelsea gallerist Bryce Wolkowitz sold Jim Campbell’s haunting Untitled, San Francisco Street Scene, 2010 from an edition of three for $55,000 each
  • Shirley Shor’s computer generated Self Portrait also from an edition of three for $20,000.
  • Korean artist Airan Kang’s whimsical reproduction of books in Lucite lit by LEDs, a play on the notion of illuminated manuscripts in blinding lime green and magenta pink, were a hit scoring multiple sales—one based on a Richard Prince catalogue was snapped up at $4,500

AIPAD Attracts Crowds with Lower Prices and Contemporary Editions (The Art Newspaper)

AIPAD Events

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AIPAD opens this week at New York’s Park Avenue Armory. On Saturday, the fair will hold a series of panels:

SPECIAL EVENTS ON SATURDAY, MARCH 20

Six panel discussions bringing together leading curators, dealers, artists and journalists are planned for Saturday, March 20, during The AIPAD Photography Show New York in the Veteran’s Room at the Park Avenue Armory as follows:
10:00 a.m.        What Collectors Need to Know:  The Art of Caring for Photographs
Top experts explore the most important issues involved in caring for photographs.  Topics will include: hanging, framing, storage, conservation, ethics and more.

Christiane Fischer,
President and C.E.O., AXA Art Insurance, North America, Moderator
Anne Gibbs,
Owner, White Mule Picture Frames, New York
Nora W. Kennedy
Sherman Fairchild Conservator of Photographs, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Peter Mustardo,
Photograph Conservator, President, The Better Image, New York/Milford, NJ
Stephen Bulger,
President, AIPAD; Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto
12:00 noon       New Topographics:  Landscape Photography Then and Now
The 1975 exhibition, New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape, signaled the emergence of a new approach to landscape photography emulated by generations of photographers.  A new version of this seminal exhibition is currently touring eight international venues.  This discussion will focus on the impact of both exhibitions and the role of landscape photography today.

Rick Wester,
Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, Moderator
Joe Deal, Artist
Frank Gohlke, Artist
Alison Nordström,
Curator of Photographs, George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, NY
Britt Salvesen,
Department Head and Curator, Photography Department, Prints and Drawings Department, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art
2:00 p.m.          Street Seen: The Psychological Gesture in American Photography, 1940-1959Continue Reading

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