February 28, 2018

Sarah Hanson, writing for The Art Newspaper, took note of Menconi + Schoelkopf’s booth at the ADAA Art Show, writing:

“Andrew Schoelkopf, now a director at Menconi + Schoelkopf, was a youngster pressed into service by his dealer parents on opening night. “They’d never done an art fair before,” he says. “We had an extraordinary, big bronze by Elie Nadelman and a Stuart Davis. We sold three or four things that night. It was an exciting moment.”

“But only a few dealers saw a similar flurry of business during the Tuesday night preview. Sean Kelly found a dozen takers on clever new cut-out editions by Jose Dávila, which playfully reference Picasso and Calder ($18,000-$45,000). David Zwirner continued its 25th anniversary celebration with a salon-style hang of one work apiece by each of its 50 artists. They ranged from a drawing by new recruit Rose Wylie ($5,000) to a tiny, much-admired Fred Sandback relief ($250,000), with “quite a few” sales in the first few hours, according to director Veronique Ansorge. Schoelkopf, fielding inquiries on a Marsden Hartley ($1.85m) and a trio of Oscar Bluemner paintings on paper ($750,000-$2.45m), says the market for American Modernism is “the best it’s ever been”.” [ADAA’s Art Show misses Armory week crowds, but focused displays of challenging works still prove popular,” The Art Newspaper, February 28, 2018]