Price Check! Here’s What Sold—and for How Much—at the 2020 Untitled and FOG Art Fairs in San Francisco

The past weekend was a bustling one in San Francisco, as dealers
gathered in the city to present their wares at the Untitled and FOG
Design+Art fairs.

Some 60 galleries from 12 countries gathered for the fourth
edition of Untitled, where the Los Angeles-based Night
Gallery was awarded an inaugural eBay-sponsored
$10,000 booth prize. The gallery won accolades for its presentation
of works by JPW3, whose multimedia objects made
from repurposed materials evoke the climate crisis. The
fair—which tends to attract smaller dealers and markets itself as a
site for discovery—also featured Artnet contributor Brian Boucher as a writer-in-residence, penning
updates on the fair each day.

Meanwhile, the seventh edition of FOG Design+Art featured 48
galleries, including mega-dealers like Hauser & Wirth, Gagosian,
and David Zwirner, and served as a hub for blue-chip work and
high-end design. Together, the fairs offered a moment for dealers
to continue working to cultivate the San Francisco market, which is
home to a growing number of wealthy tech elite but a proportionally
modest number of dedicated art collectors.

Below, we have pulled together a list of reported sales from the
two fairs. Notably, participants in the San Francisco events were
generally less inclined to share sales information than exhibitors
at other large international fairs. And, 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.

UNTITLED ART
FAIR

$14,000 each: Two works by Chris Straus at Marc Straus

$10,000–15,000 each: A group of David Kramer works at Freight +
Volume

$10,000 each: Half of the works by Leilah Babirye on view at
Rebecca Camacho

$7,000–24,000 each: The entire solo booth of Andy Dixon’s work
at BEERS London

$7,000: A work by Paul Pretzer at Marc Straus

$5,000–11,000 each: Nine works by Erin O’Keefe at Denny
Dimin

$1,900–3,000 each: Two works by Lau Wai at Denny Dimin

FOG ART + DESIGN
FAIR

$350,000: Jenny Holzer’s THOUGHT (2019) at Hauser
& Wirth

$350,000: Rashid Johnson’s Untitled Escape Collage
(2019) at Hauser & Wirth

$295,000: Paul McCarthy’s A&E EVAMY,
Tehachapi (2019) at Hauser & Wirth

$150,000: Ed Clark’s Untitled (2000) at Hauser &
Wirth

$100,000: Larry Bell’s Coo Maquette (2019) at
Hauser & Wirth

$75,000: Mika Rottenberg’s Untitled Ceiling
Projector (2018) at Hauser & Wirth

$72,000 each: Two photographs by Fischli & Weiss at Sprüth
Magers

$48,000 each: Three LED works by Leo Villareal at Pace

$35,000: Rita Ackermann’s Green Tulip (2015)
at Hauser & Wirth

$25,000: A painting by Brenda Goodman at The Landing

$12,000: An Otto and Gertrud Natzler ceramic work at The
Landing

$10,000–16,000 each: Several stools by Alma Allen at The
Landing

$7,000: A Glen Lukens ceramic work at The Landing

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