{"id":628468,"date":"2026-09-26T20:42:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T20:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/628468\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T20:42:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T20:42:18","slug":"the-armory-show-opens-with-steady-sales-on-opening-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/628468\/","title":{"rendered":"The Armory Show Opens with Steady Sales on Opening Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following a flood of gallery openings in Tribeca and Chelsea at the start of the month, the fall art season in New York is officially in full swing with the opening of the annual Armory Show<\/a> at the Javits Center on Thursday\u2014marking its sixth edition on the far West side of Manhattan.<\/p>\n

Despite continued challenges and uncertainty in the art market, the vibe was decidedly upbeat, attendance was solid if not frenzied, and reports of sales\u2014from five to seven figures\u2014began streaming in early on the VIP preview day. Topping the list of sale prices was a Joan Mitchell<\/a> painting sold by Michael Rosenfeld Gallery for over $2 million to a private collection.<\/p>\n

Bold-faced names including Jason Biggs, Jodie Foster<\/a>, Paul Rudd, and Knicks<\/a> star Karl-Anthony Towns<\/a> were among those spotted strolling the aisles. Also in attendance was artist Rama Duwaji, wife of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.<\/p>\n

And the dedicated fair sections, especially \u201cFocus<\/a>,\u201d which highlights artists of Caribbean descent, and \u201cPresents,\u201d which showcases galleries younger than 12 years old with solo and dual presentations, seemed particularly energetic and crowded.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\"Art<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSean Kelly at The Armory Show 2026, September 25-27, Javits Center, Booth 208.
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPhoto: Sebastiano Pellion di Persano. Courtesy of Sean Kelly, New York<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Armory Show has been a great way to kick off the fall season,\u201d veteran art dealer Sean Kelly<\/a> told Galerie. \u201cWe\u2019ve had an excellent turnout for the first day of the fair, with strong engagement from collectors and significant placements across our presentation. There\u2019s been a real sense of energy and enthusiasm this week, and it\u2019s been a wonderful way to reconnect with the community and begin the new season.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among the gallery\u2019s initial\u00a0sales were an oil on linen by Janaina Tsch\u00e4pe, Flickering surrounding us, (2026) for $170,000, an oil on wood by Laurent Grasso, Studies into the past, for \u20ac60,000, Jose D\u00e1vila\u2019s print, Untitled (Les M\u00e9nines) II, (2020), for $65,000, and Sam Moyer\u2019s mixed media Magic Number (2026) for $125,000.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\"Art<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPerrotin at The Armory Show 2026, September 25-27, Javits Center, Booth 100.
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPhoto: Courtesy of Perrotin<\/p>\n

Perrotin<\/a>\u2019s solo-artist booth was abuzz with interest for the vibrantly colored, rough-textured prints of artist Kathia St. Hilaire, inspired by her ancestral roots in Haiti and experiences growing up in South Florida. \u201cMy\u00a0work on Perrotin\u2019s booth is inspired by the 1960s Haitian literary movement Spiralism, started by Frank\u00e9tienne directly in response to the violent dictatorship by Francois Duvalier (or Papa Doc),\u201d St. Hilaire said. The artist has developed a printmaking technique that builds up to 50 layers of paint, and \u201chas the look of tapestries, specially resembling Vodun flags,\u201d as she described it. Six artworks were sold at prices ranging from $5,000 to $45,000.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\"Colorful,<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNara Roesler at The Armory Show 2026, September 25-27, Javits Center, Booth 101.
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPhoto: Courtesy of Nara Roesler<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Brazil-based Nara Roesler<\/a>\u2019s eye-catching booth\u2014one of the first visitors encounter when entering the sprawling space\u2014reported sales including Sheila Hicks<\/a>\u2019s linen on cotton, The soft side of my nature (2025) with an asking price of $260,000, Abraham Palatnik\u2019s painting W-600 for $60,000, Marco A. Castillo\u2019s Wakamba con facciones cartesianas 2 for $50,000, and two works by Manoela Medeiros, Tropical Still Life, Nymphaea, (2026) and Tropical Still Life, Leaves with Black Seeds (2026) for $22,000 and $9,000 respectively.<\/p>\n

The show \u201chas a particular energy,\u201d said David Norr, of Norr Cohan<\/a>. \u201cPeople return to New York, reconnect, and discover what artists and galleries have been working on. . .We\u2019ve had engaging conversations with collectors and curators, and we\u2019re delighted to have placed works by Spencer Finch, Eamon Ore-Giron, Yinka Shonibare, and Alison Elizabeth Taylor in significant private collections.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following a flood of gallery openings in Tribeca and Chelsea at the start of the month, the fall…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[9223,437,434,435,436,438,146,85,46,284228,50642],"class_list":["post-628468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-armory-show","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-joan-mitchell","tag-perrotin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}