Installation view of Lehmann Maupin’s booth at Frieze London, 2023. Photo by Linda Nylind. Courtesy of Frieze.
Top sales at Frieze London and Frieze Masters
Barbara Chase-Riboud, My blood sings through your turned flesh, 2020. © Barbara Chase-Riboud. Photo by Damian Griffiths. Courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
Hauser & Wirth—one of Artsy’s best booths from the fair—reported a number of significant sales across both Frieze London and Frieze Masters, including:
- Louise Bourgeois’s sculpture Knife Work (1949) for $3 million.
- Two works on paper by Philip Guston: an untitled charcoal-on-paper work for $600,000; and an untitled ink-on-paper work for $200,000.
- Jack Whitten’s Atlantic Rising (1966) for $950,000.
- A pair of works on paper by Barbara Chase-Riboud for $120,000 apiece.
Thaddaeus Ropac reported a number of sales, including:
- A 1984 Robert Rauschenberg work for $1.35 million.
- A 2023 painting by Georg Baselitz for €1.2 million ($1.26 million).
- Four works by Mandy El-Sayegh for $115,000.
- Three works by Martha Jungwirth for €320,000 ($336,970).
Installation view of Thaddaeus Ropac’s booth at Frieze London, 2023. Photo by Linda Nylind. Courtesy of Frieze.
Kasmin sold a number of significant works at Frieze Masters, including:
- Robert Motherwell’s Hollow Men No. VI (1988/1990) for $3.2 million.
- A Lee Krasner painting for $675,000.
- A Max Ernst work for $400,000.
- A Wassily Kandinsky work for $210,000.
White Cube’s notable sales included:
- A painting by Tracey Emin for £1.2 million ($1.45 million).
- A work by Anselm Kiefer for €1 million ($1.05 million).
- A sculpture by Antony Gormley for £525,000 ($637,770).
- A painting by Mona Hatoum for £225,000 ($273,330).
- A work by Tunji Adeniyi-Jones for $80,000.
Pace Gallery’s notable sales included:
- Louise Nevelson’s sculpture Model for Celebration II (1976) for $2 million, which was featured outdoors in Frieze Sculpture.
- A work by Paulina Olowska for $250,000.
- A painting by Adam Pendleton for $150,000.
Sprüth Magers’s notable sales included:
- A 2023 George Condo painting for $2.6 million.
- A 2023 work by Anne Imhof for $150,000.
- A 2007 work by Barbara Kruger for $135,000.
- Two Rosemarie Trockel ceramics for €95,000 ($100,000) apiece.
- A Sylvie Fleury neon work for €80,000 ($84,240).
Xavier Hufkens’s notable sales included:
- A painting by Tracey Emin for £900,000 ($1.1 million).
- A Sterling Ruby work for $350,000.
- A Leon Kossoff painting for £250,000.
- A Cassi Namoda work in the range of $55,000–$60,000.
- Two paintings by Constantin Nitsche, priced between €10,000 ($10,530) and €55,000 ($57,920).
Sold-out booths
Damien Hirst, installation view in Gagosian’s booth at Frieze London, 2023. Photo by Linda Nylind. Courtesy of Frieze.
A handful of galleries across the two tents boasted sold-out booths, including:
- Gagosian sold out its solo presentation of 12 paintings by Damien Hirst at Frieze on the fair’s opening day.
- Pace sold out its Frieze Masters display of sculptures by Arlene Shechet, priced between $65,000 and $90,000 per piece.
- MASSIMODECARLO sold out its solo presentation of Xiyao Wang, with works priced between €40,000 ($42,120) and €70,000 ($73,710).
- London gallery Harlesden High Street—making its Frieze debut this year—sold out its booth, which included multiple paintings by Hamed Maiye for £7,500 ($9,109) each, and several paintings by Mattia Guarnera-MacCarthy for £5,000 ($6,070) each, which sold within the first 10 minutes of the fair.
- Carl Freedman sold out its solo booth featuring paintings by Vanessa Raw, priced from £16,000–£30,000. The booth was part of the Artist-to-Artist section, in which prominent artists selected artists to present solo booths. Raw was chosen by Tracey Emin.
- Praxis sold out its solo booth of works by Simonette Quamina.
- Marianne Boesky sold out its standout booth featuring paintings and works on paper by Danielle Mckinney. Prices ranged from $45,000–$55,000 for paintings and $16,000 for works on paper.
More key sales at Frieze London
Eddie Martinez, Untitled, 2022. © Eddie Martinez. Courtesy of the artist and Timothy Taylor.
- David Zwirner’s reported sales included a painting by Gerhard Richter for $650,000; a pair of bronze sculptures by Josh Smith for $600,000 and $250,000 each; a work by Rose Wylie for $400,000; a painting by Oscar Murillo for $350,000; a work by Shio Kusaka for $75,000; and multiple works by Frank Walter for prices ranging from $35,000–$55,000.
- Timothy Taylor made “significant” sales from its solo presentation of Eddie Martinez works—one of Artsy’s best booths from the fair—including 22 framed drawings and painted works on paper priced from $12,000–$40,000.
- Stephen Friedman Gallery sold “several” pieces from its solo presentation of works by Leilah Babirye, including a sculpture for $250,000 and a work on paper for $15,000.
- Kukje Gallery’s notable sales included a work by the recently deceased Park Seo-bo in the range of $430,000–$516,000; a Ha Chong-hyun painting in the range of $223,000–$268,000; a Suki Seokyeong Kang in the range of $75,000–$90,000; a Kibong Rhee work in the range of $60,000–$72,000; a work by Alexander Calder in the range of $250,000–$300,000; a work Jean-Michel Othoniel work in the range of €67,000 ($70,550)–€80,000 ($84,240); a work by Daniel Boyd in the range of $32,000–$38,000; and multiple works by Julian Opie in the range of £22,000 ($36,730)–£31,200 ($37,900).
- Lehmann Maupin’s reported sales were led by a 2018 painting by David Salle for $425,000 and a new sculptural work by Teresita Fernández for $300,000. Other sales included a work by Nari Ward for $250,000; a new work by Tammy Nguyen for $100,000; a work by Loriel Beltrán for $75,000; and a work by Mandy El-Sayegh for $70,000.
Nari Ward, Restin’ Our Heart, 2023. Courtesy of the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, and London.
- Tina Kim Gallery’s sales included a painting by Park Seo-bo priced from $200,000–$250,000; a painting by Ha Chong-hyun priced from $300,000–$400,000; and a work by Kim Tschang-Yeul priced from $200,000–$250,000.
- GRIMM sold a number of works including a painting by Daniel Richter for €420,000 ($442,910); a painting by Caroline Walker for £175,000 ($213,440); and a work by Francesca Mollett for £35,000 ($42,690).
Caroline Walker, Feeding Rounds I, 2023. Photo by Damian Griffiths. Courtesy of the artist and GRIMM, Amsterdam, London,New York.
- Almine Rech reported a number of six-figure sales on the first day of the fair including a Jonathan Gardner painting for between $190,000–250,000; two Javier Calleja paintings for between $300,000–350,000 and $ 350,000–380,000; and a Mehdi Ghadyanloo work for $100,000–110,000.
- In the Focus section, dedicated to galleries opened in the past 12 years, London gallery Nicoletti sold four works by Josèfa Ntjam for €10,000 ($10,530) each.
- Also in Focus, Copperfield sold “multiple” paintings from its solo booth of Larry Achiampong priced at £19,000 ($23,100) each.
Key sales at Frieze Masters
Vera Molnár, installation view in Vintage Galéria’s booth at Frieze Masters, 2023. Photo by Michael Adair. Courtesy of Frieze.
- Gallery Hyundai sold “multiple” paintings by Shin Sung Hy in the range of $23,000–$150,000.
- Vintage Galéria placed four works by Vera Molnár—including two into an institutional collection—for €30,000 ($31,590) each.
- Lagos gallery kó’s sales included a painting by Ben Enwonwu in the range of £180,000 ($218,660)–£250,000 ($303,700).
- BASTIAN sold a work by Gerhard Richter for €610,000 ($642,350) and a set of three photographs by Cy Twombly for £50,000 ($60,740).
- Galerie Mitterrand’s sales included a drawing by Francisco Sobrino for a price in the range of €25,000 ($26,320)–€30,000 ($31,590); two sculptures by Marta Pan for a price in the range of €30,000 ($31,590)–€35,000 ($36,860); and drawings by Agustín Cardenas for €15,000 ($15,790).
Ai Weiwei, installation view in GALLERIA CONTINUA’s booth at Frieze Masters, 2023. Photo by Michael Adair. Courtesy of Frieze.
- Galleria Continua sold “multiple” works by Ai Weiwei for €180,000 ($189,520) apiece.
- Larkin Erdmann’s sales included an Alighiero Boetti work for €80,000 ($84,230); and two works by Man Ray for €50,000 ($52,640) each.
- Maruani Mercier Gallery sold pieces by Le Corbusier, Man Ray, and Lyle Ashton Harris to private collectors for undisclosed prices.
- Richard Saltoun sold 10 works from its group presentation for prices ranging from £3,800 ($4,615)–£120,000 ($145,740).
- Galerie Nordenhake sold a number of works by artists including Stanley Whitney, Ayan Farah, Frida Orupabo, John Zurier, Spencer Finch, and Ryan Mrozowski for undisclosed prices.