Pavilion of Art & Design released these sales:

Galerie Von Vertes sold two works at seven figures each: a bold red 3-slash canvas by Lucio Fontana on the fair’s opening night and a painting by Max Ernst later in the week.

Stellan Holm Gallery sold pieces by Nate Lowman in the region of $700,000 and a work on paper by Franz Kline for around $400,000.

Friedman Benda: Christopher Le Brun, Painting at Sunrise, going for £140,000.

Robin Katz: major pieces by Bridget Riley, Antony Caro and Lynn Chadwick all going to collectors. Photography specialist

Michael Hoppen sold the highlight works on his stand such as Nobuyoshi Araki’s Grand Diary of a Photo Maniac (1994) for £30,000 and William Klein’s Club Allegro Fortissimo, Paris (1990) for £25,000.

David Ghezelbash:  a Greek bronze tortoise shell from 400-300 BC sold rapidly, while a 6th century Etruscan head went for €250,000 and a Cycladic head for €120,000.

Gordian Weber Kunsthandel sold very well throughout the week, remarking on an exceptional crowd including several major collectors in the field of antiquities. Tribal Art dealer 

Bernard Dulon sold the masterpiece of his stand within hours: a 19th Century Teke Fetish figure from the Congo with an asking price of €250,000.

SMO Gallery from Lebanon: Ouroboros (2011), a golden-scaled snake sculpture by Ranya Sarakbi, priced at £130,000.

Galerie Kreo:  a Marc Newson table at €300,000, a Campana Brothers Fata Morgana mirror for €32,000, Pierre Charpin’s Carbon Shelf for €36,000, and Alessandro Mendini’s Lampada in white gold for €75,000.

Galerie Gosserez sold new pieces by Valentin Loellmann, Os & Oos and gt2p going for prices ranging from £18,000 – £30,000.

Galleria O.:  Fender Lamp (2013) by Johanna Grawunder  went for €12,000.

Modernity: Gerrit Rietveld’s set of four Zig Zag chairs (1958) for £60,000, a ‘Paimio’ armchair made by Alvar Alto for Artek (1940s), a set of Poul Henningsen table lamps (1926) from the first year of production for £40,000, and a set of Ib Kofoed Larsen ‘Elizabeth’chairs (1958) for £35,000.

PAD London Reveals Strong Figures for Frieze Week Fair (ArtLyst)

Art in America’s Iphigenia Baal made this observation:

No one is forthcoming about what they are selling, for how much and to whom, but A.i.A. did overhear one dealer comparing shopping styles. “The Europeans walk round for days writing notes, then do all their buying on the Sunday. If the Americans want it, they buy on the spot.” One pair of arty spectacles with a New York City rasp dropped $80,000 on two Warhol drawings at New York’s Cheim & Read with the comment, “I just came off my medication this morning!”

And Scott Reyburn had this:

Dealers at Frieze and at the Pavilion of Art & Design in Berkeley Square, speaking on condition of anonymity, expressed resentment and said Frieze Masters was a “distraction.” They said that reservations on works for the VIP day of Frieze had been canceled after the opening of Masters and that with so many events to cover, buyers weren’t making return visits.

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Frieze Masters

David Koetser Gallery

• Adriaen Coorte still life, priced at $3.7 million.

Sam Fogg

• a Flemish early-16th-century painting of the Virgin and Child to a contemporary-art collector for 200,000 pounds
• a medieval bronze of the crucified Christ to an artist for 30,000 pounds.

Sperone Westwater

• Bruce Nauman’s installation, “Parallax Shell” (1971), along with the drawing for it, to a European collector in the $2-3 million range.

Cheim & Read

• Joan Mitchell  “Untitled” (1961), for around a million dollars to an English collector
• Louise Bourgeois bronze, “Avenza Revisited,” from 1968-69, for around $1.5 million.

Stephen Ongpin

• Lucian Freud pen-and-black-ink-and-black-wax “The Sleeping Cat” (1944)  £280,000,
• Frank Auerbach charcoal, “Study of a Seated Female Nude” (1955), for £90,000.

Lisson Gallery

• John Latham wall relief, “Untitled” (1958) £150,000.

Leo Koenig

• Sigmar Polke two untitled, unique cibachrome prints from 1986 that sold for $30,000 apiece.

Bernard Jacobson

• Ben Nicolson painting from the 1950s to a European collector for a price in the region of £400,000.
• Robyn Denny painting, “Treen 3” (1958), for approximately £75,000.

Christophe Van de Weghe

• Picasso, “Homme et Femme au bouquet,” to unidentified U.S.-based collector for $8.5m
• Salvador Dalí’s pencil-on-paper “Andromeda” (1931), which was listed at $250,000.
• a 1932 Fernand Leger painting for $2.6 million.

Frieze

Thomas Dane Gallery

• Three Jean-Luc Moulène “Bic” monochromes, made with biro ink, sold for €40,000 each to different European collectors, and so did his glass sculpture “Blown knot 6 3 2 (borronean) baria 5” (2012), which went for the same price
• sculptures by Walead Beshty andAlexandre da Cunha, both for £25,000.

David Zwirner

• Christopher Williams for $40,000
• a new piece by Michael Riedel for $75,000
• aFrancis Alÿs gun sculpture for $30,000

Pace Gallery 

• a large bronze (£35,000) by the British artist Keith Coventry
• Adam Pendleton (£45,000)
• five small works on paper by Yoshitomo Nara (priced between $35,000 and $50,000).

Andrew Kreps Gallery

• a multi-panel installation of paintings by Ricci Albenda was sold for $200,000.

Victoria Miro

• Yayoi Kusama‘s pink and gold canvas “Universe RYPK” (2010) for “a price in the mid-six figures in U.S. dollars,”

Sprüth Magers

• George Condo oil on linen (“Red Profile,” 2012) for $325,000
• a Sterling Ruby collage for $155,000
• Jean-Luc Mylayne photograph (“No 500 (2/2), Mars 2006-Mai 2007”) for €60,000

Hauser & Wirth

• Paul McCarthy, “White Snow Head,” to a European collector for $1.3 million

Stephen Friedman

• Ged Quinn: nine works were reserved or sold with prices ranging from 35,000 pounds to 130,000 pounds.

• Pablo Picasso’s Buste d’Homme for £5.9 million

White Cube

• Damien Hirst, Destruction Dreamscape, for a reported £500,000

PAD

Luxembourg & Dayan

• seven out of the eight new Chinese Pop-style “Panda” paintings by Rob Pruitt it was offering priced at $120,000 each.
•  330 blank canvases signed by celebrities for American artist Rob Pruitt for £500,000

Skarstedt

• a 1964 Andy Warhol “Flowers” painting was sold for $2.5 million

SUNDAY

 

Limoncello

• Cornelia Baltes “Headless Chicken” stilt painting, which sold for £2,500
• Jack Strange, “Like Spirit, Like Ghost, Like Human, Like Alien” (2012), sold for £6,000

Seventeen

• two pieces by David Raymond Conroy, including “Devotion” (2012), a work on paper combining posters depicting Sharon Stone in Basic Instinctand Joy Division’s Ian Curtis for £3,000, and a pair of collages, “He Always Loved Larking” (2012), for the same price.

BolteLang

• two works by the British painter Benjamin Senior(priced at between £2,500 and £3,500).

 

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