Art Cologne 2018

Art Fair Report: Art Cologne 2018

“There’s a very serious and very educated base here, and we want to engage with that audience—and not just collectors, but Kunstverein [German art non-profit associations] directors, curators, writers,” said Gagosian’s Jona Lueddeckens, who helped put together the booth. “That’s specific to the art fair in Cologne.” (Quote from Artsy article about Art Cologne)

Now, what did the galleries bring to the fair; and even more important: what sold?

Take a look at our comprehensive sales report below:

Thaddaeus Ropac

- sold two large Georg Baselitz oil on canvases for € 500,000 each

- sold sculptures by Erwin Wurm

- had a small Sigmar Polke canvas on offer in the backroom for € 1million

- had Alex Katz' Coca Cola Girl #12 on offer for around € 400,000

David Zwirner

- sold a large scale Neo Rauch painting within the first hours of the fair to a german collector for $ 1.25million.

The gallery also sold works by Isa Genzken, Thomas Ruff and Wolfgang Tillmanns in the six-figure range.

White Cube

- had a large 2011 Damien Hirst spot painting in their booth, on offer for $ 850,000

Galerie Michael Werner

- had two large scale 1977 Georg Baselitz linocuts (one on paper on offer for € 100,000; the other one on canvas on offer for € 135,000)

Karsten Greve

- had a monumental Gotthard Graubner cushion canvas which sold for € 690,000 to a german collector on the first day of the fair

- the gallery also had a mid-size work on paper by Graubner on offer for € 98,000

König Galerie

- sold a Katharina Grosse oil on canvas for € 180,000

- sold several works by Jeppe Hein

Galerie Nächst St. Stephan

- sold a Katharina Grosse oil on canvas for € 192,000

- sold a Lee Ufan work for $ 142,000

Galerie Hans Mayer

- had a beautiful large scale Markus Oehlen in their booth priced in the lower six-figure range

- sold several works by Tony Oursler

Galerie Bärbel Grässlin

- had a Günther Förg work on offer in their booth for € 420,000

Galerie Schwarzer

- had a small Gotthard Graubner cushion canvas priced at € 130,000

Galerie Michael Haas

- sold a large scale AR Penck canvas on the first day of the fair for an undisclosed amount

Galerie Klüser

- had an Alex Katz flower painting for € 435,000 and sold a Katz drawing for around € 45,000

- sold an aluminum sculpture by Olaf Metzel

Gagosian Gallery

- sold a sculpture ("Marsupiale") by Urs Fischer

Galerie Daniel Buchholz

- sold a 2-part sculpture by Isa Genzken for € 400,000

- sold works by Anne Imhof for € 32,000 each

Sprüth Magers

- sold a work by John Baldessari for $ 375,000

- sold a knit canvas by Rosemarie Trockel for € 200,000

Hauser & Wirth

- sold 4 works by Takesada Matsutani for $ 85,000 each

- sold 3 works by Mary Heilmann for prices between $ 40,000 to $ 395,000

- had a large glass box by Larry Bell on offer for $ 525,000

Galerie von Vertes

- had a Gerhard Richter "Vorhang" edition for € 280,000

- had a Gerhard Richter oil on paper "20.2.89" for € 580,000

- had a Yayoi Kusama oil on canvas € 1.2million

- sold a George Condo oil on canvas for € 225,000 and a smaller one for € 195,000

- sold a Joan Miró oil on canvas from 1970 for € 400,000

- sold a Calder mobile for around € 450,000

Galerie Michael Schultz

- had a Gerhard Richter Vorhang edition for € 220,000

- had Andy Warhol's Electric Chairs (Suite of 10) for € 750,000

- sold a Warhol drawing for € 40,000

- sold a Gerhard Richter "Green-red-blue" for an undisclosed amount

Galerie Maulberger

- had the most expensive work of the fair: Günther Uecker, "Phantom", 1990 (Hommage à Lothar Wolleh); on offer for € 2.9million. As far as we know it didn't sell.

- had a large Emil Schumacher oil on canvas from 1961 for € 350,000

- sold a Walter Stöhrer mixed media on paper from 1986 for € 19,800

Galerie Koch

- had a Gerhard Richter oil on paper for € 270,000

- had a Gerhard Richter "Souvenir" for € 125,000

- sold an Adolf Luther mirror object for € 24,000

Samuelis Baumgarte

- had a large scale Heinz Mack painting for € 420,000; a mid-sized canvas by the artist priced at € 309,000 and a small acrylic on canvas for € 55,000

- sold Otto Piene's 1972 "Feuerorgel" for € 90,000

- had three red Piene works for € 27,000 each

Thole Rotermund

- sold several Lyonel Feininger works in a price range between € 38,000 to 138,000

- had a 1946-48 watercolor of a landscape under a yellow sky by Emil Nolde for € 165,000; and another Nolde watercolor from 1920 for € 190,000

- sold several small Per Kirkeby watercolors and a Gerhard Richter watercolor from 1984

Galerie Utermann

- had a 1918 Lyonel Feininger watercolor and ink on paper for €120,000. Another Feininger marine landscape from 1932 was on offer for €160,000.

- sold a 60 x 50 cm oil and sand on canvas by Emil Schumacher from 1962 for €80,000

- had a Marino Marini oil and gouache on paper from 1953 for €110,000

- had a 1963 Fritz Winter oil on canvas for €170,000; another Winter oil on canvas from 1961 for €125,000; and Fritz Winter's „Kalter Nebel“ abstraction from 1956 for €135,000

- sold Ernst Wilhelm Nay‘s 1942 „Cathedral“ for €48,000

- had an Ernst-Ludwig Kirchner 1935/37 mixed media on paper for €140,000

- had a Karl-Schmitt Rottluff mixed-media on paper cityscape with church for €160,000

- had a Christian Rohlfs Tempera on canvas for €125,000

- had Norbert Tadeusz's large scale „Cavalli“ for €56,000 and two smaller canvases by the artist for €27,000 and €34,000

- had a Hann Trier tempera on canvas for €48,000

Setareh Gallery

- had a large scale Hans Hartung for € 590,000; and beautiful smaller one for € 300,000

- had a wall sculpture by Imi Knoebel for € 280,000

Galerie Ludorff

- sold a Karin Kneffel oil on canvas for € 240,000

- sold Winfried Gaul‘s „Mannheimer Quadrat“ from 1969 for €24,000

- had a Max Pechstein watercolor €85,000

- had a Lyonel Feininger watercolor and black ink on paper €95,000

- had two Karl Schmitt-Rottluff watercolors with black ink and pencil on paper for €85,000 and €95,000

- had Hans Hartung‘s „P1971-20“ mixed media on cardboard €85,000

- had a Gotthard Graubner Gouache on paper €29,500

- had a 1974 Heinz Mack €85,000; and a colorful Mack pastel on paper for €95,000

- sold Stepan Balkenhol‘s Relief Man from 2000 sold for €85,000

- had a small Mataré Bronze calf €49,000

- sold Richard Serra's „Trajectory #4“ (2004) etching for €24,000

Galerie Schlichtenmaier

- a beautiful Walter Stöhrer oil on canvas sold for € 45,000

- Adolf Fleischmann Composition #106 - sold for €48,000

- another larger Fleischmann Composition was on offer for €75,000

- a colorful Fleischman gouache on paper in orange/red/brown tonalities - sold for €15,000

- also on offer: Karl Pfahler‘s bright blue-white mixed media on canvas for €28,000

- sold: Winfried Gaul‘s rhombic „Day and Night“ from 1966 for €24,000

- on offer in the booth: a blue-red Fred Thieler abstraction for €31,000 and another Thieler oil on canvas for €25,000

- sold: a monochromatic Karl-Fred Dahmen for €17,800

Henze Ketterer & Triebold

- had a Otto Modersohn oil on cardboard €75,000

- sold several Ernst-Ludwig Kirchner drawings for prices between €48,000 to €65,000

- had two Ernst-Ludwig Kirchner oil on canvas both in the € 1-2million range

- sold a Erich Heckel watercolor €48,000

- had a Erich Heckel tempera on canvas €275,000; and a Erich Heckel coastal landscape oil on canvas for €290,000

- had Bernd Zimmer‘s bright orange-yellow sun coming through blue-grey fog for €44,000

- had a small oil on canvas by Bernhard Schultze for €12,500

Galerie Valentien

- had several Max Ernst frottage and pencil on paper for prices between €30,000 to €68,000

- had a Fritz Winter oil on Paper €28,000

Galerie Thomas

- sold a Willi Baumeister mixed media on canvas from 1920 for €185,000

- had a wall of small fluorescent acrylic on paper Peter Halley works for €11,500 each plus a wall of Peter Halley gouaches for €25,000 each

- had a Gabriele Münter oil on paper ("Poppies") €58,000

- had a Jim Dine „Night Garden“ acrylic on canvas from 2009 for €215,000; a patinated and emailed Jim Dine Bronze from an edition of 8 for €215,000 and a large scale drawing „Rondo #2“ by the artist for 68,000.