Two of the founders of the New York - based Dia Art Center Heiner Friedrich and Fariha de Menil Friedrich, sued the organization to prevent them from
selling paintings and sculptures by Cy Twombly, John Chamberlain and Barnett Newman at Sotheby's New York during its contemporary art auctions on 13 and 14 November.
«With $ 60,000 and under there is a comfort level in pulling the trigger,» said New York dealer Marianne Boesky, who
sold paintings and sculptures in that range by artists Rachel Feinstein, Diana Al - Hadid and Hans Op de Beeck.
In line with its experience of the Irish art market, the Solomon Gallery provides free advice on how to start or expand a private or corporate art collection, including guidance on how to buy and
sell paintings and sculpture at auction.
Not exact matches
That's a far cry from just five months ago, when Sotheby's
and competing house Christie's garnered record sales,
and worldwide attention, by each
selling $ 1 billion worth of
paintings and sculptures over the course of a week.
More than 110 juried artists hailing from across the country will showcase
and sell original work within a variety of categories including
paintings, photography, ceramics, jewelry,
and sculpture.
The
Sold Out exhibition included six kaleidoscopic «Infinity Mirror Rooms,» which are small box - shaped spaces that combine mirrors
and lights to stunning effect as well as 60
paintings and sculptures and archived photos documenting Kusama's life in New York in the 1960s.
Over 100 local artists
and craftsmen
sell and display their work, including
paintings,
sculpture, pottery, glass, textiles, jewelry, wood
and metal furniture,
and more.
Downtown streets offer shops
and galleries that
sell local
paintings and sculptures of local artists.
To
sell one of your
paintings, photographs,
sculptures or hunk of 3D art you first need to head up the board
and acquire a contract.
Paintings and sculptures selling for hundreds (or thousands) of dollars.
Still, most of the top lots met or exceeded estimates, including a work by modern master Francis Newton Souza, whose
painting Goan Landscape, 1964,
sold for # 68,450 ($ 105,769), well above the # 30,000 / 40,000 estimate;
and A. Balasubramaniam's fiberglass
and acrylic
sculpture titled Gravity, 2006, which
sold for # 43,250 ($ 66,830) on an estimate of # 20,000 / 30,000.
The exhibition includes carpet
paintings, chair
sculptures,
and other kinds of artworks made from postconsumer objects: goods that are designed, produced,
sold, used until they're thoroughly worn, then discarded.
Work perceived as trending that
sold out the first day included pop comments on Pop (Sylvie Fleury's life - size crushed car that she
painted with pink nail polish
and posed against a wall caked with makeup; impeccable fabrication (Anish Kapoor's shiny discs that danced down every aisle); mannequin
sculptures (Chicago imagist Karl Wirsum's robotic stick figures); body fetish (Guillaume Leblon's truncated ceramic legs
and Jonathan Monk's kicking ones, Naotaka Hiro's body casts of himself made with his right hand).
Select highlights include: Lehmann Maupin's sale of several McArthur Binion works ranging from $ 50,000 - 175,000 to trustees of two leading U.S. museums, as well as collectors new to the gallery; Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac's sale of two works by George Baselitz in a range of c. $ 599,000 - 838,000 each, a Robert Rauschenberg work for $ 725,000, a Tony Cragg
sculpture for c. $ 210,000,
and a metal
and wood piece by Jack Pierson for $ 190,000; Royale Projects
sold three Clinton Hill
paintings at around $ 95,000 each to collectors from New York
and California; David Kordansky
sold out its booth of photography by Torbjørn Rødland in the range of $ 14,00028,000 each; Jack Shainman's sales of recent work by Hank Willis Thomas, including a major
sculpture, a retroflective,
and one of Thomas» iconic flags in the Live section,
and works by Lynette Yiadom - Boakye, Becky Suss, Enrique Martinez Celaya
and Geoffrey Chadsey; Gallery Hyundai's sale of a pair piece by Seung - taek Lee for $ 100,000 - 200,000
and two works by Minjung Kim for $ 40,000 - 100,000.
LOCATION: Annandale - on - Hudson, New York SPECIALTIES: Film / video, music / sound,
painting, photography,
sculpture,
and writing TUITION: $ 55,000 TIME TO DEGREE: a total of 2 years, with three summer sessions
and two independent - study sessions NOTABLE FACULTY: Amy Sillman, Ulrike Muller, Sadie Benning, Huma Babha, Thomas Eggerer, Zoe Leonard, Nick Mauss, R.H. Quaytman FAMOUS ALUMNI: Amy Sillman, Paul Chan, Carolee Schneeman, David Horvitz, Herb Ritts, Rachel Harrison, R.H. Quaytman, Trisha Baga, Zak Kitnik, Lucy Raven BIGGEST
SELLING POINT: Bard spearheaded the low - residency MFA program, with students gathering for sessions that are clustered in eight - week summer «residencies»
and divide up long periods of independent work lasting from two to three years.
She
sells their works, mainly oil
paintings on canvas
and also
sculptures in well established galleries in England.
LOCATION: New York, New York SPECIALTIES: Computer art; visual narrative; photography, video,
and related media; fine arts (
painting,
sculpture, printmaking) TUITION: $ 36,500 TIME TO DEGREE: 2 years NOTABLE FACULTY: Mark Tribe, Marilyn Minter, Laurel Nakadate NOTABLE ALUMNI: Inka Essenhigh, Barnaby Furnas, Keith Haring, Andrea Fraser, Sarah Sze, Sol LeWitt BIGGEST
SELLING POINT: SVA is more than the snazzy ad campaign you may have seen plastered around New York's subway system.
Select highlights include: Lisson Gallery's sale of an Anish Kapoor work listed as # 1.2 Million; David Kordansky Gallery
sold out its booth of Tala Madani
paintings, ranging from $ 22,000 to $ 110,000 each, to both collectors
and public institutions; Hauser & Wirth placed
paintings and sculptures by American artist Lorna Simpson with both museums
and private collections, ranging from $ 150,000 to $ 300,000; David Zwirner
sold out of works by American sculptor Carol Bove, including four
sculptures and one work on paper at prices ranging from $ 50,000 to $ 550,000; Grimm Gallery completely
sold out its stand, including works by William Monk ranging from $ 20,000 to $ 26,000;
and Mendes Wood DM
sold works ranging between $ 10,000
and $ 50,000.
It
sold for $ 14,030,740, which surpassed the previous world auction record for a Matisse
sculpture of $ 9,242,500
and approached the world auction record for a Matisse
painting of $ 14,852,500.
Among the works that did well were Lot 16, a charming small
sculpture, one of three examples down in 1945 - 6, by David Smith, shown above, that
sold for $ 220,000 (not including the buyer's premium)
and had had a high estimate of $ 150,000; Lot 5, «Atantolone,» a gloss household
paint on canvas of colored dots on a white field that
sold for $ 170,000 (not including the buyer's premium), well over its high estimate of $ 120,000; Lot 14, a large 1943
painted wood
and wire
sculpture, «Constellation,» by Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976) that
sold for $ 1,982,500 (including the buyer's premium), more than double its high estimate,
and Lot 24, a larger Calder
sculpture, «Trepied,» that
sold near its low estimate for $ 1,542,500 (including the buyer's premium); Lot 20, a large
and very interesting
and abstract but not very colorful 1953 Francis Bacon (1909 - 1992), «Two Figures at a Window,» that
sold above its $ 1.2 million high estimate for $ 1,542,500 (including the buyer's premium); Lot 27, «Tour III» by Brice Marden (b. 1938) that
sold within its estimates for $ 1,487,500 (including the buyer's premium), tying the artist's record; Lot 41, «Grillo,» by Jean - Michel Basquiat (1960 - 1988) that
sold for $ 1,102,500 (including the buyer's premium), also within its pre-sale estimates;
and Lot 31, «Vierwaldstätte See,» a large black
and white 1969 landscape by Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) that
sold for $ 1,047,500 near its low estimate of $ 1 million.
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac (Paris
and Salzburg)
sold a major Andy Warhol, Joseph Beuys (1980) for $ 1.4 million, Robert Rauschenberg's assembled metal
sculpture Appalachian Double Latch Spring Glut, (1989) for $ 770,000,
and two Georg Baselitz
paintings, including Bündel (Bunch)(2015) for $ 800,000
and Es is kein Zimmer frei (2015) for $ 534,000.
Animamix artist Li Jikai's
painting Corkhorse Fly
and Writing (2005)
sold for $ 70,000
and Li Hui's stainless - steel
sculpture with LED lights Ark No. 2 (2005)
sold for over $ 300,000 at Christie's Hong Kong in May 2008.
More than 90 percent of the 100 - plus
paintings,
sculptures and drawings were not
sold but saved by the artist
and transferred after his death to the Musée Picasso in Paris, now closed for renovation.
In June 2008, he
and his wife
sold Jeff Koons's 1995 — 2000
sculpture Balloon Flower (Magenta) at auction for $ 25.8 million to buy a group of 1982 Sigmar Polke
paintings, currently on view at the Warehouse.
Highlights from the show include Royal College of Art graduate Jodie Carey's eight foot chandeliers made out of fluff from a hoover, Tom Price's animated, small scale sculpted plaster heads, Emma Puntis's mesmerizing miniature portraits, Tatsuya Kimata's ironic
sculptures of everyday objects sculpted using traditional marble
and stone carving skills, Doug White's majestic palm trees crafted from thousands of abandoned car tyres retrieved from road sides in Belize, Michael Lisle - Taylor's army uniforms crossed with straight jackets, which play to his 19 years in the Navy,
and Boo Ritson's large - scale photographs of people she transforms into characters caked in thick
paint, which have
sold out in her second solo show only a year after graduating.
This spring
and summer, Phillips will
sell about 140
paintings,
sculptures and photographs from a private American collection, estimated to be worth about $ 35 million.
Todd Murphy, a multimedia artist who has been
selling his
paintings,
sculptures and photography to musicians
and record executives for several decades, had his opening reception at Marc Straus Gallery earlier this month.
David Zwirner of New York, which had the best display of all, brought
and sold pieces by Carol Bove (a brass
and concrete
sculpture, listed at $ 150,000), Oscar Murillo (a large
painting collage, listed at $ 250,000),
and Christopher Williams (the last photograph of his lovingly repaired car, listed at $ 65,000).
MILFORD, Conn. — Four vibrant
and colorful
paintings by the renowned American Pop artist LeRoy Neiman (1921 - 2012)
sold for a combined $ 279,600 at a sale of fine American
and European
paintings, drawings
and sculptures held May 1st by Shannon's Fine Art Auctioneers, in the firm's gallery located at 354 Woodmont Road in Milford.
Emerging black artists starred last month at the Armory Show, New York's biggest contemporary art fair, where Nicodim Gallery
sold out of
paintings and sculptures by South Africa's Simphiwe Ndzube on the first day...
Meanwhile, in the day sale, a Robert Indiana
sculpture of the number five more than doubled its low estimate,
selling for $ 425,000,
and a Robert Longo graphite wave
painting likewise multiplied its estimate to fetch $ 60,000.
For over eighty years, Acquavella has
sold major
paintings and sculpture to private collectors
and museums worldwide.
Hauser & Wirth, which operates multiple spaces in New York, London
and Zurich,
sold a white
and blue totem
sculpture by Louise Bourgeois for $ 1.95 million
and Paul McCarthy's messy figurative
painting «WS, Dior» for $ 950,000.
Other speakers included Chuck Close (who credited Friedman for launching his career with the purchase of «Big Self - Portrait,» the first
painting he ever
sold); Claes Oldenburg (who raved about the Minneapolis
Sculpture Garden), Ursula von Rydingsvard (who made the party favors)
and museum directors Adam Weinberg (Whitney Museum of American Art), Richard Koshalek (Hirshhorn Museum
and Sculpture Garden)
and Olga Viso, the Walker's current director.
Sotheby's is hardly testing the water here: Bourgeois holds the record for the most expensive
sculpture by a woman to be
sold at auction (a within - estimate $ 28.2 million in November 2015 for her nine - foot bronze Spider, 1997)
and Kusama once held the auction price record for any living female artist ($ 7.1 million for her
painting White No. 28 (1960) in 2014) before being dethroned by Cady Noland.
They additionally
sold Kudzanai Chiurai's
painting Untitled (Office for the Enregisterment of Slaves)(2016; $ 30,000), Walter Oltmann's imposing aluminum wire
sculpture, Caterpillar Suit IV (2016; $ 25,000),
and Tracey Rose's photograph Lucie's Fur Version 1:1:1 — L'Annunciazione — Mme. OEUF!
Starting out in the 1950s with the making
and selling of furniture, Artschwager soon began pursuing his passion for art by producing
sculptures,
paintings, drawings
and other objects.
AAF will present galleries exhibiting
and selling contemporary art featuring original
paintings, prints,
sculptures and photographs.
Emerging black artists starred last month at the Armory Show, New York's biggest contemporary art fair, where Nicodim Gallery
sold out of
paintings and sculptures by South Africa's Simphiwe Ndzube on the first day, with prices ranging from $ 20,000 to $ 40,000.
The gallery also
sold a mask by Thomas Houseago for $ 160,000; a
sculpture by Antony Gormley for # 175,000; a Walter Swennen
painting, Transformations (2016), for $ 40,000;
and a pair of Harold Ancart
paintings for $ 30,000 apiece.
While probing the imaginative
and aesthetic potential embedded in the stuff of daily life, Costa's
sculptures,
paintings and installations also allude implicitly to the wider system in which art is made, validated
and sold.
The show is composed of 76 works
and includes
paintings, photographs,
sculptures and video, as well as silhouettes by Kara Walker, sound suits by Nick Cave
and «I
Sell the Shadow to Sustain the Substance,» a neon light installation by Glenn Ligon.
This year, we
sold a selection of Manolo Valdés
paintings and a
sculpture, with prices ranging between USD 350,000 — 1,000,000.
Our passion leads us to regularly buy
and sell the finest quality of Pop Art lithographs,
sculptures,
paintings and unique objects available, so our inventory changes frequently.
Hauser & Wirth had a strong first day with an eclectic booth at Frieze Masters,
selling a small Alexander Calder stabile for $ 600,000; a Dieter Roth cheese
painting for more than $ 500,000; a Fausto Melotti
sculpture for 300,000 euros, or about $ 335,000; a Francis Picabia
painting for $ 220,000;
and two Marlene Dumas works on paper for $ 45,000 each.
While many of Mr. Johns's
sculptures from the late 1950s
and»60s have been lent for years to the Philadelphia Museum, Matthew Marks, whose gallery represents Mr. Johns, said that the artist recently decided to
sell the work to the Kravises, for an undisclosed amount, if they agreed to give it eventually to the Modern, which has one of the most significant holdings of his
paintings, drawings
and prints.
When word got back to Johns, he thought «what a wonderful idea for a
sculpture» —
and so
Painted Bronze was promptly made
and sold.
Paintings sold for between $ 5.00
and $ 250.00 (
sculptures for slightly more),
and in a good year, the show could yield the artists collectively up to $ 35,000.
Galerie Terminus
sold a Gerhard Richter abstract
painting for $ 1.1 million,
and a Heiner Meyer Mickey Mouse
sculpture for $ 80,000
Most of the times, an art objects sales person will have to
sell any kind of item related to art:
paintings,
sculptures, mirror
and painting frames, art materials (brushes, canvas,
and sculpting tools)
and to perform shop related duties.