Price Check! Here’s What Sold—and for How Much—at the 2020 Armory Show in New York

After surviving last year’s late-breaking drama
surrounding a structurally unsound pier, the Armory Show was
undoubtedly expecting 2020 to be less eventful (and turbulent) than
2019. This was, of course, not the case. The very real threat of
COVID-19 led New York’s governor, Andrew Cuomo, to declare a state
of emergency on the final day of the art fair.

Despite a slightly quieter and less demonstrably affectionate
crowd, however, dealers reported reasonably swift sales at the event,
especially on VIP day and in the five-figure price range.
(Crowds were noticeably thinner after opening day.) Upfor Gallery
sold a whopping 34 works, including multiple paintings by
“Presents” prize winner Julie Green. Pippy Houldsworth Gallery
found buyers for works ranging in price from $8,500 to $95,000 by
Mary Kelly, Francesca DiMattio, Jadé Fadojutimi,
and Jacqueline de Jong. Sorry We’re Closed sold its entire
booth and Bologna-based gallery P420 sold out of works by Adelaide
Cioni.

Below, we have pulled together a list of reported sales from the
fair, with all prices converted to USD for ease of reading. As
always, keep in mind that some dealers occasionally offer inflated
figures, while others prefer to report ranges or “asking prices” to
obscure actual selling prices, or to cover up the favorable
treatment they offer to some buyers, but not to others. We did 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.

PAINTINGS

$280,000: Mary Corse, Untitled (White Narrow Inner Band
with White Sides, Beveled) (2020) at Kayne
Griffin Corcoran

$280,000: Mary Corse, Untitled (White with Narrow Black
Band, Beveled) (2020) at Kayne Griffin Corcoran 

$240,000: Kehinde Wiley, Portrait of Tahiatua
Maraetefau II (2019) at Galerie Templon

$225,000: Hans Hofmann’s Yellow (1945) at
Hollis Taggart

$125,000: A painting by Michael (Corinne) West at Hollis
Taggart

$120,000: Imi Knoebel’s Anima
Mundi 8-4 (2019) at von Bartha

$110,000: Omar Ba, World War I (2020) at Galerie Templon

$100,000: A Marina Rheingantz painting at
Bortolami

$85,000 each: Two Callum Innes paintings at Sean
Kelly Gallery

$60,000 each: Several works by Vik Muniz at Galeria Nara
Roesler

$60,000: A painting by Richard Pousette-Dart at Hollis
Taggart

$50,000: Laura Lancaster’s Nowhere (2019) at
WORKPLACE

$45,000: Hans Hoffman’s The Table (1945) at
Hollis Taggart

$36,000: A painting by Sharon Ellis at Kohn Gallery

$35,000: Mary Obering, Byrd Fair Park (1980)
at Kayne Griffin Corcoran

$35,000: An Ivan Morley painting at Bortolami

$30,000 each: Four Mary Obering works at
Bortolami

$20,000–25,000 each: Two 2019 untitled works by Landon Metz at
Von Bartha

$20,000 each: Several portraits by artist Cristina Canale at
Galeria Nara Roesler

$25,000: A painting by Caroline Kent acquired by a Texas
institution at Kohn Gallery

$12,500–17,000 each: Three paintings by Kate Barbee at Kohn
Gallery

$12,000: Nkechi Ebubedike, Ecstasy (2020) at
TAFETA

$5,000–25,000 each: Six June Edmonds “Flag” paintings
at Luis De Jesus Los Angeles

$3,500: Deborah Brown, Beach (2018) at
Gavlak

SCULPTURES, INSTALLATIONS &
MIXED MEDIA

$1 million: A mixed media work by Betye Saar at Roberts Projects

$150,000: Alicja Kwade, Formation (2019) at
303 Gallery

$90,000: A sculpture by Yayoi Kusama at Andrew Kreps

$80,000: Lavar Munroe’s mixed media work 17/18
‘WWJD’ (2020) at Jack Bell
Gallery

$75,000–95,000: All of the plastic Hugo McCloud works at Sean
Kelly Gallery

$75,000: Jose Alvarez (D.O.P.A.), Fearless, Limitless
and Free (2015–18) at Gavlak

$70,000: Gisela Colon, Hyper Ellipsoid (Gold
Green) (2018) at Gavlak

$60,000: A Julian Charrière sculpture at Sean
Kelly

$60,000: A quilt by Sanford Biggers at David Castillo
Gallery

$45,000: Leslie Wayne, Here and There (2020)
at Durham Press

$40,000: Viola Frey, Untitled (Fan on Hot Bricolage,
Vessel Head) (1980–81)

$32,000: Alicja Kwade’s Rain (5 minutes/90
cm) (2019) at 303 Gallery

$21,000 each: Anne Samat, I’m Here to
Stay and No Place To Be Ending But Somewhere To Start
#1 (both 2020) at Marc Straus

$16,000 each: Edition 2 of 6, plus 2 artist proofs of Maynard
Morrow’s bronze stanchion Untitled /
Apocalypse (2018) at Gavlak

$12,500 each: Two sculptures by Chiffon Thomas, one sold to a
major New England museum from Kohn Gallery

$8,000: Anthony Sonnenberg, Chalice (Bleed Out, Drink
Up) (2020) at Gavlak

$3,500 each: Works by Pedro Wirz at Kai Matsumiya

PRINTS, DRAWINGS, &
PHOTOGRAPHS

$125,000: Yoshitomo Nara’s Untitled (Blue ground, girl
in cloud) (2003) at Gavlak

$80,000: Hank Willis Thomas’s UV print “Rated X By
An All White Jury” (Black Over Yellor) [sic] (2020)
at Kayne Griffin Corcoran

$46,500: Mickalene Thomas’s photograph Racquel
#3 at Yancey Richardson Gallery

$45,000 each: Two glass microspheres in acrylic on paper by Mary
Corse, Untitled (Red Arch) (2000) and
Untitled (2000), at Kayne Griffin Corcoran

$40,000: Mika Tajima’s Art d’Ameublement (Parcel das
Tartarugas), (2019) at Kayne Griffin Corcoran

$20,000: Kumasi J. Barnett’s The Amazing Black-Man Neon
Sign at Lowell Ryan Projects

$18,500: Rosha Yaghmai’s Window, Book of Kings 2
(2020) at Kayne Griffin Corcoran

$11,000 each: Two collage works by Marcia Kure at Officine
dell’Immagine

$7,000-$20,000 each: A series of
Dawoud Bey photographs at Sean Kelly Gallery

$5,000 each: Two of Candida Alvarez’s acrylic and pencil on Yupo
paper works at Gavlak

$2,500 each: 42 comics at Lowell Ryan Projects

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