Now that the dust has settled on a week full of art viewing, party hopping, and, of course, celebrity spotting in Los Angeles, we took a look at the sales reported by galleries who showed at Frieze L.A. The fair’s third edition returned to the city in its new Beverly Hills digs and welcomed more than 30,000 visitors over the course of four days, with 100 local and international galleries.
Among the high-priced highlights were Xavier Hufkens’s reported sale of all its new paintings by Thomas Houseago, each with a price tag of $350,000, and one of which, Purple Sunset on the Pool, will enter LACMA’s permanent collection. Meanwhile, David Kordansky’s solo booth of Michael Williams’s “Puzzle Paintings” sold out within the first hour of the fair, with all seven “Dog Paintings” selling for $100,000 each. And in other mega-gallery news, a new work by Jordan Wolfson sold at David Zwirner’s booth for $400,000—amid rumors that that Larry Gagosian is reportedly wooing the artist to join his stable.
Below, see our roundup of all the prices galleries deemed worthy of sharing with us, and remember that some dealers occasionally (quite often) inflate prices and others decline to share figures at all. As always, we do not include sales unaccompanied by figures, so the galleries that tend to disclose numbers are disproportionately represented here. All prices are converted to USD for ease of reading.
PAINTINGS
$1.5 million: Georg Baselitz, Eisdiele (2020) at Thaddaeus Ropac
$1.2 million: Beatriz Milhazes, O Bailarino (2019) at White Cube
$1.1 million: A painting by Robert Rauschenberg from 1998 at Thaddaeus Ropac
$1.1 million: A work by Robert Rauschenberg at Gladstone Gallery
$1 million: Barkley L. Hendricks, Estelle (1972) at Jack Shainman
$1 million: A painting by Alice Neel at David Zwirner
$850,000: A painting by Carroll Dunham at Gladstone Gallery
$600,000 to $1 million each: Three works by Lisa Yuskavage at David Zwirner
$600,000: A work by Marlene Dumas at Zeno X Gallery
$535,000: A painting by George Condo at Sprüth Magers
$500,000: Jack Whitten’s 82 Degres F (27.777C) (11) (2011) at Zeno X Gallery
$448,000: Imi Knoebel, Untitled (1988) at White Cube
$350,000 each: Several new paintings by Thomas Houseago at Xavier Hufkens
$350,000: Lari Pittman, Luminous: Cities with Egg Monuments 2 (2022) at Lehmann Maupin
$350,000: Stanley Whitney, Morning Sung (2022) at Lisson Gallery
$285,000: Nigel Cooke, Sunsets (2021) at Pace (sold to an Asian institution)
$249,293: A painting by Anne Imhof at Sprüth Magers
$225,000: Nina Chanel Abney, Outdoor Dining #2 at Jack Shainman
$220,000 each: Four new paintings by Josh Smith at David Zwirner
$216,000: Martha Jungwirth, Ohne Titel, aus der Serie “Corona-Biester” (2021) at Thaddaeus Ropac
$200,000: A painting by Nate Lowman at David Zwirner
$200,000: McArthur Binion, Seasons: VIII (2016) at Lehmann Maupin
$200,000: Paulina Olowska’s painting Artist’s Flea Market (2021) at Pace
$175,000 to $250,000: Calida Rawles, The Way of Time (2021) at Lehmann Maupin
$175,000: Leon Polk Smith, Four Blue Diagonals (1950) at Lisson Gallery
$170,000: Lee Bul’s Perdu CIX (2021) at Lehmann Maupin
$150,000 to $200,000: A work by Javier Calleja at Almine Rech
$150,000: An acrylic work by Clare Rojas at Jessica Silverman
$150,000 each: Two paintings by Katherine Bernhardt at David Zwirner
$140,000 each: Camille Henrot’s Dos and Don’ts—The Old Rule (2022), and Dos and Don’ts—True Politeness (2022) at Hauser and Wirth
$140,000: Joanna Pousette-Dart, Banded Paintings #5 (2015-16) at Lisson
$135,978: Magnus Plessen, Untitled (Fig. 23) (2021) at White Cube
$125,000: Loie Hollowell’s Life Line, June 18 (2018) at Pace
$110,000: A Glenn Kaino painting at Pace
$107,649: Bram Bogart, Kruis Wit (1970) at White Cube
$100,000 each: Michael Williams’s Dog Painting (1) through (7) (all 2021) at David Kordansky
$95,000: A painting by Sayre Gomez at François Ghebaly
$95,000: A work by Kara Walker at Sprüth Magers
$95,000: A painting by Richard Aldrich at Gladstone Gallery
$90,000 to $120,000: A work by Vaughn Spann at Almine Rech
$90,000 to $100,000 each: Three studies by Alex Katz at Gladstone Gallery
$85,000: Amelia Toledo, Horizon Painting (1998) at Nara Roesler
$75,000 to $100,000: A painting by Brian Calvin at Almine Rech
$75,000: A painting by Dashiell Manley at Jessica Silverman
$70,000: Hayv Kahraman, Entanglements no 2 (2022) at Jack Shainman
$70,000 to $80,000: A painting by Leelee Kimmel at Almine Rech
$65,000: Radcliffe Bailey, Equinox 1659-1726 (2021) at Jack Shainman
$60,000: A painting by Rebecca Morris at Bortolami
$50,000 each: Amelia Toledo’s Mina de cores #02 (2007) and Mina de azul # 02 (2006/21) at Nara Roelser
$50,000: Loie Hollowell’s Around the Clock, July 19 (2021) at Pace
$50,000: Amelia Toledo, Green well (2006/2021) at Nara Roesler
$50,00: A painting by Renée Green at Bortolami
$40,000 to $50,000: A painting by Chloe Wise at Almine Rech
$38,000: A sculpture by Kelly Alashi at François Ghebaly
$35,000: A painting by Melvino Garretti at Parker Gallery
$30,000: A painting by Richard Aldrich at Gladstone Gallery
$30,000 each: Two Richard Aldrich paintings at Bortolami
$30,000 each: Naotaka Hiro’s paintings Untitled (Coronal) and Untitled (Pegs) at Bortolami
$25,000: A painting by Melvino Garretti at Parker Gallery
$20,000: Roy Colmer’s Untitled #31c (1966) at Lisson Gallery
$15,000: Geoffrey Chadsey, Red Suit (2022) at Jack Shainman
$10,000 to $40,000 each: Paintings by Tariku Shiferaw at Galerie Lelong
SCULPTURES, MIXED MEDIA, & INSTALLATIONS
In the range of $3 million: Jeff Koons, Gazing Ball (Antinous-Dionysus), (2013) at Pace
$450,000: A work by Jenny Holzer at Sprüth Magers
$400,000: A sculpture by Woody De Othello at Jessica Silverman
$400,000: A new work by Jordan Wolfson at David Zwirner
$385,000: Liza Lou, Into the Mountain (2021) at Lehmann Maupin
$250,000: A work by Daniel Buren at Bortolami
$225,000: A work by Kathleen Ryan at François Ghebaly
$200,000: Beatriz Milhaze’s collage work Hawai em Amarelo VIbrante (2019) at White Cube
$150,000: A sculpture by Sonia Gomes at Pace
$88,000 each: Ryan Gander’s I be… (xlii) andI be… (xlii) (2021) at Lisson Gallery
$81,473: Tracey Emin, Belligerence (2014) at White Cube
$80,000: A sculpture by Leonardo Drew at Galerie Lelong
$80,000: Hugh Hayden, 110% Cocoa (2021) at Lisson
$75,000: A rotten fruit sculptural work by Kathleen Ryan at François Ghebaly
$65,000 each: Two works by Anicka Yi at Gladstone Gallery
$60,000: Pedro Reyes’s Encounter (2018) at Lisson
$50,000 each: Two sculptures by Martin Margiela at Zeno X Gallery
$50,000: Virginia Overton, Untitled (Quartered Cedar) (2016) at White Cube
$50,000: Hank Willis Thomas’s Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho (2022) at Jack Shainman
$50,000: A blown glass work by Fred Wilson at Pace
$45,000: A textile work by Yto Barrada at Pace
$40,000: Nick Cave, Untitled (2018) at Jack Shainman
$35,000: Akinsanya Kambon’s Sundiata (2020) at Jack Shainman
$15,500: Pedro Reyes, Future Friends (2020) at Lisson
$4,000: Ravi Jackson, Kurt 3 (2022) at David Lewis
PRINTS, PHOTOGRAPHS, & WORKS ON PAPER
$175,000: Toyin Ojih Odutola, Accountability (2021-2022) at Jack Shainman
$100,000: A work on paper by Matthew Barney at Gladstone Gallery
$65,000 to $70,000 each: Four works by Richard Misrach at Pace
$60,000: Christian Marclay’s Look (2016-19) at White Cube
$60,000: Todd Gray, Atlantic (Barry and Glodean), (2022) at David Lewis
$50,000 to $60,000 each: Three works by Robert Mapplethorpe
$35,000: Morgan Fisher’s photo triptych Negative Gloves in Complementary Colors, at Bortolami
$29,873 each: Multiple gouache works on paper by Tracey Emin at White Cube
$20,000: Gordon Parks, Woman and Dog in Window, Harlem, New York (1943) at Jack Shainman
$18,000 to $75,000 each: Five photographs by Andy Warhol at Jack Shainman
$12,000 each: Three works by Marina Perez Simão at Pace
$8,500: A work by Marina Perez Simão at Pace
$8,500: A work on paper by David Byrne at Pace
$8,000: Laure Prouvost, This Means Vitamins (2020) at Lisson
$8,000: Peter Schlesinger, Photographer Reto Guntli doing a backflip, (1980) at David Lewis
$7,000 to $12,000 each: Three crystallograph works by Kelly Alashi at François Ghebaly
$5,000 to $20,000 each: Three works on paper by Arcmanoro Niles at Lehmann Maupin
$5,000 each: Movie posters by Patrick Johnson at François Ghebaly
$3,000 each: Nine drawings by Madeline Hollander at Bortolami