The Ramiken Crucible gallery, specializing in emerging art, sold out its entire booth: three photographs by Lucas Blalock, priced at $14,000 each, and four sculptures by Andra Ursuta, at $40,000 apiece, according to co-owner Blaize Lehane.
Rodriguez said he was interested in an abstract painting by Joe Bradley at Gagosian Gallery’s booth, but it was already sold.
Sweet Spot
“Larry said it was gone,” Rodriguez said, referring to gallerist Larry Gagosian. The gallery declined to give the sale price for the 2015 abstract, a mix of green, white, blue, yellow and brown.
Nearby, Swiss dealer Eva Presenhuber sold another abstract canvas by Bradley, for $450,000. Wyatt Kahn’s multipanel white monochrome canvas went for $55,000. Doug Aitken’s lightbox shaped as an airplane fetched $285,000.
At David Zwirner’s booth, the focus was on figurative painting and the sweet spot for prices ranged from $500,000 to $1 million, the gallery owner said.
The gallery quickly sold a large painting by Kerry James Marshall for $850,000. Chris Ofili’s large new painting, recently on view at the Aspen Art Museum, went for $750,000.
A painting by young Colombian artist Oscar Murillo featuring his signature doodles and a logo for coconut water Vita Coco fetched $300,000.
“Below $500,000, I pulled the trigger all day long,” said Lisa Schiff, a New York art adviser. “For secondary market works over $3 million, it was trickier. A lot of it was bullishly priced. I don’t feel comfortable being bullish right now after the auctions were soft.”
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