11/25/2023 0 Comments Art blocks floor prices“It's going to add a lot of energy to the show. New York dealer Hollis Taggart, who has taken part in the Armory Show for nearly two decades, attributed some of the increase in interest to Frieze’s acquisition of the fair, announced in July. Work by American artist Consuelo Jiménez Underwood on display at Ruiz-Healy Art's stand. Throngs of people weaved through the large-scale installations in the fair’s Platform sector, curated by Vancouver Art Gallery’s Eva Respini and featuring works by De Othello, Agnes Denes, Jean Shin and Teresita Fernández. While the massive scale of the Javits Center prevents bottlenecks of crowds from forming around popular stands, as often happens at other art fairs, a steady stream of visitors moved through The Armory Show all day on Thursday. While dealers at some smaller galleries reported a slow start to business and expressed trepidation that collectors may be split between The Armory Show and Frieze Seoul-the fair taking place in South Korea this week-others noted an increase in foot traffic on Thursday compared to VIP previews of previous years. Lower East Side gallery 56 Henry sold out its solo stand of seven sculptures and reliefs by New York artist LaKela Brown, which ranged in price from $9,000 to $18,000. Wentrup, based in Berlin, sold out its solo stand dedicated to Jenny Brosinski, with prices ranging from $40,000 to $50,000. Jessica Silverman's stand at The Armory Show Photo by Lance Brewer Simpson, including one to Rollins Museum of Art in Winter Park, Florida. The gallery also sold five table-top bronze sculptures by Rose B. Tut, which sold in the range of $12,000 to $20,000 each. The gallery also sold a Margo Wolowiec weaving for $38,000, along with several works on paper by Clare Rojas and Rupy C. San Francisco-based dealer Jessica Silverman sold a large bronze sculpture by Woody De Othello for $400,000 and a Julie Buffalohead oil painting for $50,000 to a foundation based in Texas. At Nara Roesler, Heinz Mack’s The painter’s garden (chromatic constellation) (2001) fetched €240,000, while two paintings by Fabio Miguez sold for $15,000 each. It also found buyers for works by Chiharu Shiota for prices ranging from €60,000 to €100,000 and all of the stand’s Philippe Cognée pieces for between €30,000 and €75,000 each. ![]() ![]() The Parisian gallery Templon, which opened a New York outpost less than ten blocks from the Javits Center last year, sold a Will Cotton painting for $150,000. The work was still available Friday morning. ![]() ![]() And London’s Ben Hunter Gallery sold a Kim Lim work for $250,000.Ĭhelsea-based 303 Gallery sold the 31-panel painting A Month of Early Morning Fog Over Lake Montauk (2023) by Rob Pruitt for $175,000, plus pieces by Cassi Nomoda, Nick Maus and Alicja Kwadje for $65,000, $70,000 and $37,400, respectively.Ĭrowds gathered around Toronto gallery Patel Brown's stand to view Efflorescence/The Way We Wake (detail) (2023) by Rajni Perera and Marigold Santos. A Lynne Drexler painting sold for $800,000 and an Alice Baber painting fetched $200,000 at New York gallery Berry Campbell’s stand. London’s Victoria Miro sold out its stand of new works by New York painter María Berrío in the morning, with prices ranging from $65,000 to $200,000. Sales came swiftly as soon as the fair opened, with top prices in the upper six figures-a notably lower price ceiling than at Frieze’s other New York fair, which takes place in spring. While speculation abounds about what the acquisition of The Armory Show by British fair and media company Frieze could mean for the event that bills itself as “New York’s art fair”, dealers and collectors were all business on the Javits Center floor during the Armory’s VIP preview on Thursday (7 September).
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