Price Check! Here’s What Sold—and for How Much—at Frieze Los Angeles 2020

The sales reports from the sophomore edition of Frieze Los
Angeles, which opened last week to well-heeled collectors and hangers-on at
Paramount Pictures Studios, are in. And though the figures need to
be taken with a hefty spoonful of salt, indications at the top end
of the market point to a lucrative event for dealers and their
artists.

Among the notable attendees this year were A-Rod, his Super
Bowl beau J. Lo, art fair regular Leonardo DiCaprio, singers Usher
and The Weeknd, and tennis star Maria Sharapova.

And included in the group of wealthy buyers were people like Ari Emanuel,
the Hollywood super agent who co-founded Endeavor, the megalith
company that owns a 70 percent stake in the Frieze fairs (he bought
a painting by Jordan Casteel at Casey Kaplan); and Kendall
Jenner, who bought a James Turrell work, perhaps on the advice
of her brother-in-law, Kanye West.

Below, we rounded up some figures from dealers willing to
disclose sales.

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 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

$2 million: Neo Rauch, Aprilnacht (2011) at
David Zwirner

$1,350,000: Robert Rauschenberg, Bowery Parade
(Borealis) (1989) at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac

$866,000: Georg Baselitz, Schwarzes Pferd [Black
Horse] (1986) at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac

$600,000: A new painting by Mark Grotjahn at Blum & Poe

$550,000: Alex Katz, Ada (2018) at Galerie
Thaddaeus Ropac

$500,000 each: Two new paintings by Jonas Wood at David
Kordansky

$420,000: Tracy Emin, There was only The
Truth (2019) at White Cube

$350,000: A work by Oscar Murillo at David Zwirner

$350,000: Stanley Whitney, Angels on Sunday, Maids on
Monday (2019) at Lisson

$310,000: A work by Mary Weatherford at David Kordansky

$280,000: Darren Almond, Night Snow at
Tsukahara (2020) at White Cube

$254,000: Imi Knoebel, Bild 06.03.2015 (2015)
at White Cube

$200,000: A painting by Harold Ancart at David Zwirner

$200,000: A painting by Lucas Arruda at David Zwirner

$145,000: Allora & Calzadilla, Electromagnetic
Field (2019) at Lisson

$120,000–$1 million each: Five paintings by Lisa Yuskavage at
David Zwirner

$100,000–$120,000 each: Several paintings by Henry Taylor at
Blum & Poe

$100,000: Ali Banisadr, The Serpent and the
Key (2019) at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac

$85,000–$495,000 each: All five of Avery Singer’s new works
shown at Hauser & Wirth

$16,500–$18,500 each: Gabriela Sanchez’s works at Charlie
James

$14,000–$30,000 each: All of painter Calinda Rawles’s works at
Various Small Fires

SCULPTURES, INSTALLATIONS,
& MIXED MEDIA

$910,000: Anish Kapoor, Mirror (Gold /
Magenta) (2019) at Lisson

$520,000: Antony Gormley, GUT XVIII (2018) at
White Cube

$500,000 each: Two works by Carol Bove at David Zwirner

$275,000: Liza Lou, Shelter from the
Storm at Lehmann Maupin

$150,000: A work by Isa Genzken at David Zwirner

$100,000: Theaster Gates, Afro (2018) at White
Cube

$76,000: Bram Bogart, Het maartse (1994)
at White Cube

$65,000: Daid Altmejd, Codebreaker (2020) at White
Cube

$65,000: Ibrahim Mahama, LET THEM SAY (2019)
at White Cube

$13,000: Laure Prouvost, IDEALLY HERE WOULD BE A DOOR TO
YOUR GRANDMA’S LEAVING ROOM (2019) at Lisson

PHOTOGRAPHS, PRINTS, &
WORKS ON PAPER

$360,000: Julie Mehretu, Codex Monotypes (2018) at
White Cube

$120,000: Robert Longo, Study of Grey
Wolf (2019) at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac

$25,000: Jessica Rankin, Being Matter
Ignited (2020) at White Cube

$120,000: A painting on paper by from 2015 at Lisson

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