{"id":911941,"date":"2026-09-27T19:26:34","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T19:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/911941\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T19:26:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T19:26:34","slug":"heres-what-dealers-said-sold-at-the-armory-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/911941\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s What (Dealers Said) Sold at the Armory Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

Art Fairs<\/a><\/p>\n

If collectors had any concerns about the wars or inflation, they did not seem to share them at the New York fair, where the mood was almost too serene.<\/p>\n


\n \"Aaron
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\"Here\u2019s
\n Catinca Tabacaru exhibited in New York for the first time since leaving the Lower East Side in 2020. She stands next to Youssra Raouchi’s \u201cFever Dream\u201d (2025). (all photos Aaron Short\/Hyperallergic unless noted)<\/p>\n

This week, the world outside the Armory Show has been embroiled in turmoil.<\/p>\n

Oil and food prices are soaring while mortgage rates topped 7%<\/a>, which could compel the Federal Reserve to hike<\/a> interest rates again next month. President Trump and other world leaders traded barbs<\/a> at the United Nations over the Iran War as a resolution to call for the end of the conflict failed<\/a> in the Senate. Yesterday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed the war in Gaza was the \u201copposite of a genocide<\/a>\u201d as protests<\/a> erupted outside the UN.<\/p>\n

Across town at the glass-encased Javits Center, the mood was almost too serene<\/a>. A swarm of museum curators, art advisors, and members of New York\u2019s top tax brackets browsed the booths of the city\u2019s premier art fair on Thursday. The Armory Show, which runs through Sunday, opened the previous day to an even more exclusive tier of VIPs, who returned to splurge on what they coveted. A smattering of celebrities including Jodie Foster, David Alan Grier, Piper Perabo, Paul Rudd, and Karl-Anthony Towns made the trek too, according to a fair spokesman.<\/p>\n

If collectors had any concerns about the wars or inflation, they did not share them.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey don\u2019t care,\u201d Michael Borghi, a dealer with Hollis Taggart, told Hyperallergic while gripping an abstract Stuart Davis painting he sold for more than $100,000. \u201cThey\u2019re really rich individuals, they don\u2019t care.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"A view of the Armory Show’s Platform section (photo Valentina Di Liscia\/Hyperallergic)<\/p>\n

Sales on the first day of the fair appeared fairly steady. Michael Rosenfeld Gallery sold a Joan Mitchell painting for more than $2 million to a private collection, as well as collages by Louise Nevelson and Hannelore Baron, an Armory spokesman said. Over at Edwynn Houk Gallery, a L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Moholy-Nagy gelatin silver print sold for $320,000. Gazelli Art House found a home for a Lilly Fenichel canvas with a European museum for $200,000, while Norr Cohan (formerly James Cohan Gallery) sold Yinka Shonibare\u2019s \u201cThe Landscape Project (Cotton Plantation)\u201d for more than $180,000, Nara Roesler sold Sheila Hicks\u2019s \u201cThe soft side of my nature\u201d (2025) for $260,000, and 303 Gallery placed two Rob Pruitt paintings for $155,000 each and a Doug Aitken lightbox for $150,000. Galerie Maximillian sold Rashid Johnson\u2019s \u201cUntitled (Large Mosaic)\u201d (2025) for about $175,000 in the first hour of the fair, the Armory announced late Thursday evening. (Of course, it\u2019s impossible to know whether these sales actually happened at the fair itself or via a PDF circulated months earlier.)<\/p>\n

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