Art Fairs
Here’s What Sold—and for How Much—at Frieze London and Frieze Masters
In this edition of "Price Check!" Hauser and Wirth reported three seven-figure sales: a Picabia, a Monet, and a Gorky.
Ah, London in the fall. As the temperature drops, the art market comes alive, with a bevy of auctions and two major-league fairs in Regent’s Park: Frieze London and Frieze Masters, which closed on Sunday, October 13. This year those festivities faced heightened competition from Art Basel Paris, and a tough market. But business still got done. Below are the sales reported in the roughly 300 booths between the two events.
Let’s close with the usual caveats. Many exhibitors do not discloses prices or sales, so read this list as an intriguing glimpse—but by no means a definitive rundown—of the action on the fair floor. All prices have been converted to U.S. dollars and rounded. And, at the risk of stating the obvious: We are at the mercy of self-reporting, so enjoy the prices with the knowledge that buyers may have received discounts.
Above $1 Million
$8.5 million: Arshile Gorky, The Opaque (1947) at Hauser and Wirth
$4.9 million: Édouard Manet, Pelouse du champ de courses à Longchamp (Public Enclosure at the Longchamp Racecourse) at Hauser and Wirth
$4 million: Francis Picabia, Elle danse (She Dances) at Hauser and Wirth
$2.2 million: Lisa Yuskavage painting at David Zwirner
$1.8 million: Henry Moore, Working Model: Reclining Figure: Umbilicus at Osborne Samuel Gallery
$1.63 million: Yayoi Kusama, Infinity Nets (2005) at Archeus / Post-Modern
$1.4 million: Yayoi Kusama, Look at the Gathering of Women in Love (2009) at Archeus / Post-Modern
$1.4 million: Robert Rauschenberg painting at Bastian
$720,000: Yayoi Kusama painting at David Zwirner
$670,000: Yayoi Kusama painting at David Zwirner
$650,000: William Kentridge, Drawing for Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot (Still Life with Black Jug I), 2020, at Hauser and Wirth
$600,000: Robert Longo, Untitled (White Peonies) at the Pace Gallery
$565,000: Lucio Fontana work at Hauser and Wirth
$550,000: Lee Lozano painting at Hauser and Wirth
$550,000: Jesse Mockrin, The Descent at James Cohan
Between $100,000 and $500,000
$500,000: Alicja Kwade’s l’ordre des mondes (Totem) at Pace
$450,000: Steven Shearer painting at David Zwirner
$450,000: AI Held painting at White Cube
$391,000: A Roman marble head of Apollo at ArtAncient
$360,000: Emily Kam Kngwarray work at Pace Gallery
$350,000: Woody De Othello, Seeing Both Sides at Jessica Silverman Gallery and Karma
$326,000–$380,000: Andy Warhol’s Ladies and Gentleman (1975) at Maruani Mercier
$326,000: A Syed Haider Raza painting at Rossi and Rossi, along with Grosvenor
$304,000–$369,000: Le Corbusier, Marie Cuttoli (1936) at Maruani Mercier
$299,700: Ramkinkar Baij painting at DAG
$293,000: Fausto Melotti work at Hauser and Wirth
$261,000: A Roman statue at Galerie Chenel
$254,000: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska work at Philip Mould and Company
$225,000: Elizabeth Peyton, Lara, August 2021 (2021) at Thaddaeus Ropac
$200,000: Joan Snyder, Mud & Lace (2024) at Thaddaeus Ropac
$182,000–$208,000: Bharti Kher, Drunken Frenzy (2011) at Nature Morte
$182,000: Leiko Ikemura, Usagi Kannon Pray (168) at Lisson Gallery
$179,800: S.K. Bakre’s work at DAG
$175,000–$195,000: Charles Gaines “Shadows” series works at Hauser and Wirth
$168,000: Gerhard Richter, 23.5.08 (2008), a lacquer on color photo, at Hauser and Wirth
$160,000: Lisa Yuskavage painting at David Zwirner
$150,000: Jesse Mockrin, Bitter Seeds at James Cohan
$150,000: Two works by Emily Kam Kngwarray, each, at Pace Gallery
$149,800: Avinash Chandra, Moon and Houses (1960) at DAG
$130,000-$196,000: Rococo candelabras at Koopman Rare Art
$124,000: A Celtic silver ribbon torc at ArtAncient
$120,000: Sasha Gordon painting at David Zwirner
$120,000: Rose Wylie sculpture at David Zwirner
$117,000–$130,000: Subodh Gupta, Inner Garden (VI), 2024, at Nature Morte
$111,000: Mary Beale work at Philip Mould and Company
$110,000: Nigel Cooke, Nemesis (2024) at Pace Gallery
$109,000: Alighiero Boetti at Larkin Erdmann
$100,000–$300,000: Pat Passlof and Miriam Shapiro works at Eric Firestone
$100,000-$200,000: A 10th–13th century Kashyapa marble head at Rasti Fine Art
Below $100,000
$98,000: Megan Rooney, Green Sky (longing), 2024, at Thaddaeus Ropac
$90,000-$240,000: Works by Lee Bae at Johyun Gallery
$90,000–$110,000: Judy Chicago, Childhood’s End #2 (1972) at Gavlak
$90,000: Robert Longo, Study of Santa Teresa (2024) at Thaddaeus Ropac
$87,000: Alicja Kwade, Tropisches Jahr (2023) at Pace Gallery
$85,000: Kennedy Yanko, Sowy Thistle James Cohan
$80,000–$100,000: Multiple José Antonio da Silva paintings, each, at Cecilia Brunson Projects
$80,000–$90,000: Claire Tabouret painting at Almine Rech
$80,000: Kennedy Yanko, Water Hemlock at James Cohan
$78,000: Zadie Xa, The wellspring of childhood (Vancouver Sunset), 2024, at Thaddaeus Ropac
$78,000: Zadie Xa, All waters touch (2024) at Thaddaeus Ropac
$76,000: Clara Klinghoffer, The Artist Pratima Devi Tagore at Charles Ede
$71,000: Martha Jungwirth, Untitled, from the series “Corona-Tagebuch” (2021) at Thaddaeus Ropac
$70,000: Kennedy Yanko, Hound’s Tongue at James Cohan
$67,000: Eugène Carrière, Étude, fillette endormie (Study, Sleeping Little Girl), ca. 1897, at Hauser and Wirth
$65,000: Martha Jungwirth, Untitled, from the series “Corona-Tagebuch” (2020) at Thaddaeus Ropac
$61,000–$89,000: Four Peter Uka paintings, each, at Mariane Ibrahim
$60,000–$70,000: Claire Tabouret self-portrait at Night Gallery
$59,000–$91,000: Works by Clare Woods at Stephen Friedman Gallery
$59,000: Emily Young’s Dolomitic Torso at Bowman Sculpture
$50,000–$100,000: 14 Billy Childish paintings, each at Lehmann Maupin
$50,000–$90,000: Nengi Omuku paintings, each, at Kasmin and Pippy Houldsworth
$50,000: One Paul Anthony Smith painting at Timothy Taylor
$49,000: Meret Oppenheim, Eichhörnchen (Squirrel), 1970, at Hauser and Wirth
$49,000: Tom Wesselmann work at Larkin Erdmann
$47,000: Gillian Wearing painting at Maureen Paley
$46,000: A Seymchan Meteorite Cross Section at ArtAncient
$46,000: A Nour Jaouda installation at Union Pacific
$46,000–$228,000: Works by Caroline Walker at Stephen Friedman Gallery
$46,000 Li Hei Di, Oblivion blest (2024) at Pippy Houldsworth
$46,000: Li Hei Di, Like an ancient wind rejected by your house (2024) at Pippy Houldsworth
$45,000: A Koak work at Union Pacific
$43,000–$65,000: Twenty works by Nathalie Du Pasquier, each, at Pace Gallery
$42,000–$52,000: Saad Qureshi, Night That Witnessed II (2017) at Nature Morte
$40,000–$450,000: Multiple works by Adriana Varejão and Celia Paul, each, at Victoria Miro
$40,000: Tidawhitney Lek at Night Gllaery
$39,000–$104,000: Four Juliana Seraphim pieces, each, at Richard Saltoun Gallery
$39,000: George III china cabinet at James Graham-Stewart
$35,000–$40,000: Brian Calvin painting at Almine Rech
$35,000: Six Paul Anthony Smith paintings, each, at Timothy Taylor
$33,000: Sophia Loeb, A sua luz ilumina o meu silêncio (Your light illuminates my silence), 2024, at Pippy Houldsworth
$33,000: Sophia Loeb, Chamas de fogo descancão sobre nós (Flames of fire rest upon us), 2024, at Pippy Houldsworth
$32,000: A Nour Jaouda installation at Union Pacific
$28,000–$75,000: Four paintings by Walter Price, each, at David Zwirner
$26,000–$91,000: Balraj Khanna works at Jhaveri Contemporary
$26,000–$39,000: Dana Awartani, Dodecahedron within an Icosahedron ll from the Platonic Solid Duals (2018) at ATHR Gallery
$26,000–$33,000: Lorenzo Vitturi, Fracta 1 (2023) at Nature Morte
$25,000–$50,000: Ji Xin works at Almine Rech
$25,000–$40,000: Four drawings by Steven Shearer, each, at David Zwirner
$23,000–$29,000: Tanya Goel, Mechanisms (Fragments) 7 and 9 (2024) at Nature Morte
$23,000: Megan Rooney, Untitled (2024) at Thaddaeus Ropac
$23,000: Works by Gregory Hodge, each, at Sullivan and Strumpf
$20,000–$50,000: Bani Abidi at Experimenter
$16,000–$79,000: Several Lain Singh Bangdel pieces, each, at Rossi and Rossi, along with Grosvenor
$13,700: A Franz Anton Griessler charcoal drawing at Charles Ede
$13,000–$46,000: Six Naminapu Maymuru White paintings, each, at Sullivan and Strumpf
$13,000–$17,000: Charlotte Edey bead-and-painted panels at Ginny on Frederick
$11,000: Nils Alix-Tabeling works, each, at Public
$10,000–$23,000: Twenty Sam Herman glass pieces, each, at Frestonian Gallery
$10,000–$15,000: Ji Xin sculpture at Almine Rech
<$10,000: Three Paul Anthony Smith studies at Timothy Taylor
$9,200: An Ayla Tavares sculpture at Hatch
$8,200: An Ayla Tavares sculpture at Hatch
$4,000–$12,000: Works by Ekaterina Canseco and Roksana Pirouzmand, each, at Murmurs
$3,900–$7,800: Sara Abdu, I Loved You Once: The Unveiled I (2024) at ATHR Gallery
$3,900–$7,800: Sara Abdu, I Loved You Once: The Unveiled II (2024) at ATHR Gallery
$3,800: Ayla Tavares wall works, each, at Hatch