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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\tHauser & Wirth sold more than 30 prints and works on paper, priced between $5,000 and $250,000.\u00a0Two Palms, one of New York\u2019s top multiples printers,\u00a0sold out an edition of 28 Cecily Brown etchings, priced at $7,500 each. The gallery also placed cast-paper works by Mickalene Thomas at $80,000 apiece. Elsewhere, dealers reported six-figure sales, including works by David Hockney and Rashid Johnson at Galerie Maximillian, alongside a steady clip of lower-priced material.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tThat pattern will sound familiar. Prints have been one of the more resilient corners of the market in recent years, driven in part by younger buyers and collectors priced out of painting and sculpture but able to scope up prints by blue-chip names at lower price points. Much of the growth has come from volume rather than trophy prices\u2014a lot of works moving at levels that still feel within reach.<\/p>\n
\n\tBut that part of the market comes with its own pressures. As the latest UBS Art Market Report<\/em> notes, rising costs have made fairs harder to sustain for dealers working at lower price points\u2014particularly in prints and photography\u2014where margins are thinner and sales volume is more important to making up costs. At the same time, prints and multiples have quietly gained share, accounting for roughly 12 percent of dealer sales by value, even as works on paper overall have slipped slightly.<\/p>\n \n\tYou could see that mix in the crowd, too. The fair drew more than 100 curators to a newly launched summit and hosted a slate of programming with artists including Julie Mehretu, Hank Willis Thomas, and Derrick Adams, alongside a benefit honoring\u00a0Christophe Cherix, director of the Museum of Modern Art since September and the museum\u2019s former chief curator drawings and prints.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tFor IFPDA executive director Jenny Gibbs, that activity was by design. \u201cMy goal is to be a print world \u00dcbermensch, bringing people together to share knowledge and build connections,\u201d she told\u00a0ARTnews<\/em>\u00a0by email, pointing to the week\u2019s mix of institutional programming and off-site events. \u201cAnd not coincidentally, the goodwill and excitement around these events translated into very, very strong sales.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tGibbs added that collectors did not draw sharp distinctions between prints and drawings. \u201cCollectors and institutions responded to the material holistically, often moving fluidly between editions and unique works on paper, which is very much in line with how the field is evolving,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n \n\tWhether that shift will meaningfully reshape the fair is still an open question. For now, the early returns suggest continuity more than transformation: a fair that remains rooted in the part of the market where most of the action now sits, even if that part is getting harder to sustain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/market\/ifpda-print-fair-2026-sales-attendance-drawings-expansion-1234781135\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Photo_-Annie-Forrest.-Courtesy_-IFPDA-Print-Fair-1-1.jpg?w=1024″] The\u00a02026 edition of the annual IFPDA Print Fair\u00a0closed Sunday with record attendance and strong sales, offering an early look at what happens when a fair built on prints starts to stretch beyond them. Held at the\u00a0Park Avenue Armory, this year\u2019s edition drew more than 21,000 visitors over four days, including roughly 5,000 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-1883444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1883444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1883444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1883444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1883444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"An](\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Photo_-Jason-Lowrie.-Courtesy_-IFPDA-Print-Fair.jpeg?w=400\")
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