Price Check! Here’s What Sold—and For How Much—at the 2019 Edition of FIAC

Despite some inclement weather at FIAC in Paris, which took the
wind out of Yayoi Kusama’s inflatable pumpkin at the main entrance
and spread some rogue bits of an art installation’s cotton candy at
well-heeled guests, reports from the fair were upbeat. While
concrete sales remained somewhat elusive,
there was genuine enthusiasm for the event and for the city itself,
which was described as “buzzing” by reporters on the ground as they
flitted from the opening of David Zwirner’s
new gallery to the high-ceilinged Grand Palais.

“We sold almost everything, and I didn’t have to do anything,”
Pace’s Marc Glimcher told artnet News, noting that he “lost a few
friends” over fights for Yoshitomo Nara’s drawings on the heels of
the artist’s record auction
result in Hong Kong.

To get a sense of how FIAC fared amid the renewed enthusiasm for
Paris, helped along by an impending
Brexit, we combed through reported sales from the nearly 200
participating galleries. Nota bene: Sales reports are
notoriously slippery in the art world. Some purchases may have been
finalized long before the fair, while others might only be
handshake deals, still waiting on paperwork and cash. But prices
themselves are more reliably telling, providing a snapshot of where
individual artists stand in the matrix of the art market today.
Even here, of course, there is room for slippage: Some dealers
occasionally offer inflated figures, while others prefer to report
ranges or the “asking price” to obscure the actual selling price,
or to cover up favorable treatment that one buyer may have received
over another. We also do not include reported sales unaccompanied
by a price or price range in our list, so the galleries that tend
to disclose figures are disproportionately represented here.

See below for a round-up of sales at the glamorous Paris affair.
All prices below have been sorted by medium and price and converted
to USD (rounded to the nearest hundred) for ease of reading.

PAINTINGS

$1.75 million: Louise Bourgeois, I Want To Be Sure You
Love Me !! (2008) at Hauser & Wirth

$1.7 million: Robert Rauschenberg’s Everglade
(Borealis) (1990) at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac

$1.3 million: Georg Baselitz, Im Takt aber leise
(2019) at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac

$1.2 million: Mark Bradford’s Painting
6 (2019) at Hauser & Wirth

$750,000: Ellen Gallagher’s Untitled (2000)
at Hauser & Wirth

$625,000: Yan Pei-Ming, L’artiste a 58 ans, Yan
Pei-Ming (2019) at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac

$625,000: Yan Pei-Ming, L’artiste a 58 ans, Gustave
Courbet (2019) at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac

$480,000: Roy Lichtenstein’s Untitled (Brushstroke
Head) (1986) at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac

$350,000: A large painting by Kehinde Wiley at Galerie Templon

$320,000: A 2015 painting by Harold Ancart at CLEARING

$312,000: Arnulf Rainer, Kreuz, ohne Titel,
(1987/88) at Thaddaeus Ropac

$276,000: Günther Förg’s Untitled (2009)
at Hauser & Wirth

$165,000: Rita Ackermann’s Mama
Nagyika (2019) at Hauser & Wirth

$160,000: Takesada Matsutani’s Stream
98-3-3 (1998) at Hauser & Wirth

$75,000–80,000 each: Six works by Lucas Arruda at David Zwirner

$56,000–78,000 each: Ouattara Watts’s new
paintings Soleil and Bantou at Galerie
Cécile Fakhoury

$9,000 each: Nine new paintings by Alvaro Barrington at
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac

SCULPTURES

$512,000: Antony Gormley’s OPEN INTROVERT IV, (2018) at
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac

$512,000: Antony Gormley’s DIVERT, (2018) at Galerie
Thaddaeus Ropac

$420,000: Eduardo Chillida, Elogio de la lax XII
(In praise of light XII) (1969) at Hauser & Wirth

$305,000: Tony Cragg’s stainless steel Gate, (2019) at
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac

$160,000: Jack Pierson, Move Closer (2019) at
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac

$50,000: Mira Schor’s Invasion Game (1990) at
Lyles & King

$39,000: Oliver Beer, Double Stopping (2019) at
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac

$26,000: Oliver Beer, Single Stopping (2019)
at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac

PRINTS, PHOTOGRAPHS, &
WORKS ON PAPER

$425,000: Lorna Simpson’s Pyramid (2019) at
Hauser & Wirth

$320,000–750,000 each: Three works by Sherrie Levine at David
Zwirner

$200,000: Philip Guston, Untitled (ca. 1975)
at Hauser & Wirth

$35,000–150,000 each: Multiple works by Wolfgang Tillmans at
David Zwirner

$30,000 each: All 22 of Jennifer Guidi’s new works on paper from
the series “11:11” at David
Kordansky

$4,000 each: Editions of Maria Eichhorn’s Prohibited
Imports (2003/08) at Galerie Barbara Weiss

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