The work is from the same series as those hanging above the Pommery Champagne Bar as part of the artist’s Platform commission. on the opening day, for a price the range of $50,000 to $70,000 at the booth of Chicago’s Kavi Gupta. – Jeffrey Gibson’s Souvenir (2018), a colorful garment-like work made from a quilt topper, canvas, acrylic paint, glass and stone beads, and fringe, had sold by 2:30 p.m.

– Hong Kong’s 10 Chancery Lane Gallery sold a work by Huang Rui to a San Francisco institution for $168,000. The gallery also sold pieces by Landon Metz, Anthony McCall, and Callum Innes.

A Hugo McCloud piece went for $60,000, a Shahzia Sikander was snatched up for $90,000, and a Sam Moyer was bought for $50,000. – In the fair’s first day, New York’s Sean Kelly gallery sold a portrait by Kehinde Wiley, who painted Barack Obama’s portrait recently, for $140,000. – At Jack Shainman Gallery’s booth, a two-panel painting by Meleko Mokgosi sold for $85,000, and a collage by the late painter Barkley L. – Ragnar Kjartansson’s Dope & Corruption (2018), an illuminated sign emblazoned with those words in the booth of i8 Gallery from Reykjavik, sold for $75,000. – Galeria Nara Roesler, which has spaces in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and New York, sold several works during the fair’s opening hours: two gold-plated brass sculptural works by Laura Vinci for $4,000 each, Vik Muniz’s Metachrome: The Abaporu, after Tarsila (2018) for $50,000, and Daniel Buren’s Prisms and Mirrors, high reliefs, situated works 2016/2017 for São Paulo (2017) for $125,000. (This post will be updated as word comes in of additional sales.) Some come from releases put out by publicists and galleries, while others were told to ARTnews directly. Other notable attendees included Studio Museum in Harlem director Thelma Golden, curator couple Massimiliano Gioni and Cecilia Alemani, Serpentine Galleries artistic director Hans Ulrich Obrist (wearing only black), Maurizio Cattelan, collector Glenn Fuhrman, and artist and filmmaker John Waters, dapper as ever.īelow is a list of sales made at the Armory Show and Volta (located a short walk to the south, on Pier 90), during the fairs’ first couple days. Sales were made, Peter Schjeldahl and Museum of Modern Art director Glenn Lowry caught up at the morning press conference, and the actor Paul Rudd made an appearance. An onslaught of snow and rain on Wednesday may have kept a few collectors from making their way over to Piers 92 and 94 to see the Armory Show in New York, but the fair continued on anyway.

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