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Dorothy Dehner News: ARTICLE | What Sold at Frieze Seoul and The Armory Show 2024, September  9, 2024 - Maxwell Rabb for Artsy

ARTICLE | What Sold at Frieze Seoul and The Armory Show 2024

September 9, 2024 - Maxwell Rabb for Artsy

Installation view of Mendes Wood DM’s booth at Frieze Seoul, 2024. Photo by Lets Studio. Courtesy of Lets Studio and Frieze.
 
What Sold at Frieze Seoul and The Armory Show 2024

Maxwell Rabb
September 9, 2024

The art world’s summer break is over. Last week, two major art fairs returned on opposite sides of the globe: The Armory Show at the Javits Center in New York (September 6th–8th) and Frieze Seoul at the COEX Center in Gangnam (September 5th–7th).

Both fairs are operated by Frieze, which launched its inaugural Seoul fair in 2022 and acquired The Armory Show last summer. This edition of The Armory Show—its 30th anniversary—marked its first under the full ownership of Frieze, as well as new director Kyla McMillan, who described the fair as taking place in an “exciting and transformative year for us.”

The fair takes place alongside several fairs in New York, including Independent 20th Century, VOLTA, and Art on Paper. In Seoul, Frieze takes place on the floor above the Korean International Art Fair (Kiaf) during a packed week of art world activity in the Korean capital.

Galleries at Frieze struck an optimistic tone towards the atmosphere at the fair, which saw more than 70,000 visitors throughout its run, including representatives from some 130 museums. “We’re continuing to see interest from great collectors, despite all the chatter about the ‘market,’” said Pace Gallery president Samantha Rubell. “We also noticed a considerably more international group of visitors this year.”
Top sales at The Armory Show 2024 
 

Kasmin led sales with Robert Motherwell’s Apse (1980–84), which sold for $825,000 on the fair’s VIP day. Other notable sales included:

Locks Gallery reported selling an oil painting by Pat Steir for $750,000. The gallery also placed two Hanne Friis textiles for $20,000 each.

 

Berry Campbell reported a string of sales, including:

Tang Contemporary Art reported several sales, including:

  • A bronze casting by Ai Weiwei for $450,000, and one of the artist’s “Lego Brick” works for $140,000–$160,000.
  • An oil painting by Jonas Burgert for $90,000.
  • Two oil paintings by Zhu Jinshi for $80,000 each.A painting by Suntur for $22,000.

Ludorff sold works including:

Other top sales from The Armory Show 2024 included:
  • Victoria Miroone of Artsy’s 10 best booths from the fair—reported selling five out of six editions of Isaac Julien’s Once Again… (Statues Never Die) (2022) for $350,000–$450,000. The gallery also sold several photos by the artist for prices between $40,000 and $80,000.

  • Catharine Clark Gallery sold two major works by Masami Teraoka to a private foundation in Asia, including an “AIDS” series work, for $175,000. The gallery reported selling two historical works that debuted at the Whitney Museum of American Art for $150,000 each. Four additional works sold for prices between $8,500 and $125,000.A Lighthouse called Kanata sold 15 works, including Ayane Mikagi’s Garden (2024), a Japanese pigment on paper and mounted panel; Joseph Walsh’s ash, bronze, and patinated plate work; Satoru Ozaki’s hammered and polished stainless steel sculpture; and a work by Kentaro Sato for $50,000–$250,000.

Other notable sales at The Armory Show 2024 
Sean Kelly Gallery reported several sales, including:
  • Sam Moyer’s Compound Fern (2024) for $70,000.
  • Jose Dávila’s archival pigment print Untitled (Cowboy) (2023) for $65,000.
  • Ilse D'Hollander’s Untitled (1995) for $61,000.
  • Hugo McCloud’s paintings, including Blessing of the Hands 1 and Untitled (both 2024), for $45,000 and $30,000, respectively.

Michael Kohn Gallery made a notable string of sales, including:

 

Eric Firestone Gallery’s sales included:

  • A painting by Paul Waters for $100,000 and another for $50,000.
  • Three monumental ceramic works by Cybele Rowe for $50,000 each.
  • Three paintings by Huê Thi Hoffmaster for prices between $25,000 and $50,000 each.

KOTARO NUKAGA placed several works from its group presentation, including a mixed-media work by Tomokazu Matsuyama, which sold for $100,000. Other works sold included:

 
 

Southern Guild made several notable sales, including:

Jessica Silverman sold a diptych by Rupy C. Tut for $75,000 and a multi-panel work by Sadie Barnette for $70,000. Other sales included:

 
 
 

Other notable sales reported by galleries at The Armory Show 2024 included:

 
 
More reported sales from The Armory Show:
 

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