Fourth SOFA New York Garners Record Sales Attendance

Art Business News, Oct, 2001

* Donna Schneier Fine Arts, New York sold two seminal Stanislav Libensky/Jaroslava Brychtova cast glass sculptures: "Table Laid for a Bride, 1989," offered at $55,000 (The sister piece, made from the same mold, resides in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.) and "Taking Off," 1994, offered for $85,000.

* Franklin Parrasch Gallery of New York sold "Huddie," a seminal 28 inch ceramic bust from 1973 by Robert Arneson, the father of California Funk Art, offered for $125,000. Also sold was a teapot by Beatrice Wood, 1970, for $4,500.

* Marx-Saunders Gallery, Chicago, sold "Red Lumina with Compound Disk 209" by Tom Patti, offered at $60,000, from the artist's personal collection.

* Moderne Gallery, Philadelphia, sold "Crescent Rocker" by Wendell Castle, a stack-laminated walnut suede, 1977, offered at $17,000.

Significant sales at SOFA New York in the media of metal and wood included:

* Wendell Castle, "Morning," gold leaf over wood, offered at $22,000 by Leo Kaplan Modern, New York.

* Chris Hill, "Murmur," steel acrylic, offered at $38,000 by Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago.

* Mariko Kusumato, "Daughter's Room," nickel silver, brass, copper, wood and bronze, offered at $20,000, and "Stages of Life II," also offered at $20,000. Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, Calif., sold both Kusumato's sought-after music boxes on opening night.