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FIAC Sales Report

October 23, 2016 by Marion Maneker

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The International New York Times’s Scott Reyburn had these sales:

Thaddaeu Ropac

  • sold the large 1984 Robert Rauschenberg acrylic and silk-screen “Bumper” to an Austrian collector for 1 million euros

Gregor Staiger

  • Nicholas Party‘s pastel double portrait, “Two men with a cat,” which sold to an American collector for €30,000

European collectors help bolster FIAC art fair  (The New York Times)

Artsy’s Molly Gottschalk had these sales:

Max Hetzler

  • sold two works each above the million-euro mark, Ai Weiwei’s Iron Tree Trunk (2015) and Albert Oehlen’s Rock (2009), sold to private collectors in France.
  • works by Toby Ziegler and Jeff Elrod, which had sold to collectors from Britain and Scandinavia
  • Ernesto Neto’s animal nature (2013) with a French collector on opening day for a six-figure sum.

Skarstedt

  • sold a photograph from Cindy Sherman’s latest series (Untitled, 2016) to a European collection for $375,000
  • an untitled painting from 2015 by Cyprien Gaillard to a European collection for €140,000
  • Karen Kilimnik’s fantasy portrait the fop in Scotland (2015) to a U.S. collection for $110,000
  • Kaari Upson’s wall-hung sculpture Six Pack/Home Depot Bucket (2016) to a Middle Eastern collection for $45,000

Lehmann Maupin

  • four paintings by Angel Otero—Immediate Worlds (2016); Bestiary (2016); Sacred Chaos (2016); Teatro (2015)—on the range of $50,000 to $125,000.

Lisson

  • Susan Hiller’s Secret Wars 1984–87 (1984), a rare painting that went to a European collection for £60,000

Kukje/Tina Kim

  • two works by the Kim Yong-Ik (all Untitled 1990–2016; around $100,000) had sold to museums in Europe and the U.S. with a third on reserve
  • a work from Ha Chong-Hyun’s “Conjunction” series for around $170,000–200,000 to a private collector in Europe

Esther Schipper

  • sold Jean-Pascal Flavien’s Model / Mask 2 (2016), reminiscent of the artist’s “Folding House” series built in the museum of Monaco, for €14,000 excluding VAT

Chantal Crousel

  • sold Danh Vō’s giant copper sculpture We The People (detail) (2011–2013) for around €250,000

Galerie nächst St. Stephan

  • sold two works from Daniel Knorr’s 2016 “Depression Elevation” series for €15,000 and €39,000, as well as the artist’s copper sculpture, Reconstruction (2016), for €10,000 excluding VAT
  • Walter Swennen’s Trop Mots (2016) sold to a Portuguese collector for €30,000
  • Michal Budny’s Ascension (2013) went to French collector for €22,600

The Financial Times’s Melanie Gerlis published these sales:Continue Reading

A Quick Trip to FIAC via Instagram

October 20, 2016 by Marion Maneker

A photo posted by Olga Sviblova (@olga_sviblova) on Oct 20, 2016 at 8:32am PDT

Kamel Mennour by Kamel Mennour | Kamel Mennour Gallery.

A photo posted by AM (@_mo________) on Oct 20, 2016 at 8:43am PDT

#FIAC @le_grand_palais Alex Israel, Self-portrait mom, 2016 Presented by / Representé(e) par : Reena Spaulings Fine Art #foire #fair #france #artiste #artist #galerie #gallery #art #artfair #artcontemporain #contemporaryart #paris #legrandpalais #kauffmanrepetto #alexisrael #reenaspaulings

A photo posted by FIAC (@fiacparis) on Oct 20, 2016 at 8:50am PDT

“Dynn” (1982) acrylic on canvas by Hungarian-French artist Victor Vasarely, the grandfather of the op-art movement, just spotted at the Galerie Hurtebize booth at the Art Elysées urban art fair in Paris that runs til 24 October 2016. Don’t miss it! #victorvasarely #art #contemporaryart #artist #opart #opticalart #geometry #hungarianartist #frenchartist #artwork #paris #artelysees #artfair #france #hungary #fiac #fiacparis #parisart #champselysees #champselysees_paris @paris_tourisme @champselysees_paris @art_elysees

A photo posted by Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle (@yjeanm) on Oct 20, 2016 at 9:19am PDT

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FIAC Sales & Commentary

October 29, 2013 by Marion Maneker

Dubuffet, Welcome Parade

Attendees report that:

  • Van de Weghe Sold a Twombly work on paper from 1964 for $400 000

Scott Reyburn went back to FIAC for more sales reports and to take the temperature of the fair:

  • They were among 73,543 visitors to Paris’s FIAC. The figure released yesterday beat some 70,000 reported at Frieze the week before. “They’re now comparable in quality and newness,” Matthew Armstrong, curator of the Lightyear Capital art collection in New York, said in an interview. “FIAC is getting better, Frieze is getting a bit more predictable.”

Waddington Custot: placed a Jean Dubuffet sculpture [produced after the artist’s death in collaboration with Pace Gallery] outside the Petit Palais, opposite FIAC. It sold for about $6 million just before the fair. Further sales of works by artists such as Picasso and Pierre Soulages saw Waddington Custot take about $9 million at FIAC, according to gallery founder Leslie Waddington.

Pace Gallery: sold more by value at FIAC, in the Grand Palais, than during the previous week at Frieze in London’s Regent’s Park. The 2011 Kiki Smith colored bronze sculpture “Harmonies II,” priced at $200,000, was among the gallery’s sales.

Ramiken Crucible: sold all its Gavin Kenyon pieces within hours of the opening.Francois Odermatt snapped up a 2013 totemic dyed-plaster-and-fur sculpture by the 33-year-old Kenyon, priced at $12,000.

Dickinson: sold the 1969 painting “Shirt Collar 14 ½” by the Italian Arte Povera artist Domenico Gnoli, priced at 2.5 million pounds ($4 million).

Natalie Portman Browses FIAC; $6 million Dancer Sculpture Sells (Bloomberg)
Scott Reyburn covers FIAC straight out of the gate:

  • “I find it necessary to do both,” said the New York-based art adviser Heather Flow. “Things happen more quickly in London, but the works are much more critically grounded here in Paris.”

Yvon Lambert: An unidentified Turkish collector bought at $250,000 wrecked Ferrari Dino.

Vedovi: sold Basquiat’s 1984 “O.M.R.A.V.S.,” showing a lone black figure among electricity pylons on a plain white background fort less than $5m.

Galerie Chantal Crousel had a 2013 white and blue inkjet painting by Guyton on its stand. It had been presold to a collector who is donating it to the Belvedere Museum in Vienna. The price was $350,000.

David Zwirner sold Murillo’s “0 + X = 145” for $120,000 for a collector who’d reserved the painting before the fair. The gallery also found buyers for Luc Tuymans’s 2013 painting “Cold Shoulder” priced at $1.2 million and a unique Thomas Schutte bronze, “Bronzefrau Nr. 13,” for 2.5 million euros.

Neuger-Riemschneider: Ai Weiwei’s “Iron Tree,” a 2013 sculpture. One sculpture from the edition sold to a German collector during the first few hours of the preview. The asking figure was about 1 million euros ($1.38 million), dealers said.

Wrecked Ferrari Sells for $250,000, Basquiat $5 Million (Bloomberg)

Inside FIAC 2013

October 29, 2013 by Marion Maneker

Murillo at FIAC
Peter Doig at FIAC
Poliakoff at FIAC
Albers, Indiana & Dubuffet at FIAC
Dubuffet at FIAC
Two Dubuffets at FIAC
Calder at FIAC
Haring at FIAC
More Haring at FIAC
Still More Haring at FIAC
John Chamberlain at FIAC
Picasso at FIAC
Ruscha at FIAC
Serge Poliakoff at FIAC
Sterling Ruby at FIAC
Steve Parrino at FIAC
Warhol at FIAC
Yves Klein at FIAC

FIAC Sales Report

October 22, 2012 by Marion Maneker

A fairgoer told us that this very small Calder sold for €400k early during FIAC. Feel free to send us your sales

Thaddeus Ropac

  • Antony Gormley‘s cast-iron bubble-bodied “Standing Matter XXXV” (2011) in the first minutes for £325,000.
  • Liza Lou‘s “Not Yet Titled” (2012) for $175,000
  •  two of Robert Longo photorealistic charcoal drawings for $275,000 each.

White Cube

  • Theaster Gates‘s “Flag (Tricolore)” (2012), made from a decommissioned firehose, which went to a French institution.
  • Liza Lou was also a hit here, with her work “Untitled #6” going for $180,000.
  • Kris Martin‘s collage “My Heimat (with moths)” went for $25,000
  • Gary Hume‘s “Plimsol Line” (2008) sold for £125,000
  • Tracey Emin also fetched £125,000.
Hauser & Wirth 
  • Paul McCarthy,”White Snow Dwarf Head 3″ at $1.75 million and a couple of the artist’s cibachrome on aluminum works for $75,000 apiece.
  • Rita Ackerman, “Fire by Days” paintings went for between $25,000 and $95,000.
kamel mennour
  • Michel François‘s “Deux temps” (2012) to a Dutch collector
  • Claude Lévêque‘s neon “Aveugle” (2012) and several other pieces, in a day of “very good work,” at prices between €50,000 and €200,000.
Sprüth Magers
  • four Cindy Sherman works from the “Bus Riders” series to a British collection for $20,000 each,
  • two Barbara Kruger pieces (“Untitled (Good)” and “Untitled (Evil)” (both 2001) to American collectors for $100,000 each
  • Andreas Gursky‘s “Beijing” (2010) for €75,000
  • Louise Lawler‘s “Pedestal” (2008-2010) to another American for $75,000.
Peres Projects
  •  €30,000 for each of Mark Flood‘s acrylic-on-canvas works “Cheat,” “Do Ass Youre Tolled,” and “Bring A Gun” (all 2012)

Eleven Rivington

  • Valeska Soares‘s remarkable colorful tableau of vintage hardcover book jackets “The Sleep of Reason” (2012) going for $50,000

Sadie Coles

  • Elizabeth Peyton for $350k

Helly Nahmad (New York)

  • Miro’s 1927 Surrealist abstract “Peinture (Le Cheval de Cirque)”

Tornabuoni Arte

  •  red-punctured Lucio Fontana “Concetto Spaziale, Attese,” from 1967-68, priced 2 million euros ($2.63 million).
  • Dadamaino for €250,000, or $326,000

Metro Pictures

  • half of the 10 smaller 2012 Robert Longo ink-and-charcoal “Studies of the American Flag” it was showing on its booth, priced at $35,000 each. Longo’s large-scale triptych of the same subject, priced at $600,000, was on reserve.

Lisson Gallery

  • 2012 Anish Kapoor fiberglass wall sculpture, tagged at 500,000 pounds ($807,000).

Templon

  • 2012 portrait “Romaine Munroe” by the U.S.-based painter Kehinde Wiley, with a price of $150,000, was bought by a French collector.

Paula Cooper

  • 2012 Rudolf Stingel silver abstract for $400,000 to a U.S. collector
  • Sophie Calle’s two-piece “Autobiographies (The Giraffe)” for $40,000 to a French client.
Continua gallery
  • a 2006 work by the Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei — a large ceramic bowl filled with pearls — had sold for €300,000
  • a work of sculpted figures by the Cameroon-born artist Pascale Marthine Tayou had gone for €85,000

Karsten Greve

  • Georgia Russell, a Paris-based Scottish artist, sold three book cover cut-outs by Wednesday, at prices between €16,000 and €18,000.

Billionaires Snap Up $8 Million Miro, Fontana in Paris (Bloomberg)

FIAC Report: “From 10am, Collectors Were Coming In and Ready to Buy” (Artinfo)

FIAC Art Fair Opens in Paris (New York Times)

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