Many American collectors stayed in the U.S., sending their advisors instead. The Asian contingent saw a strong presence of dealers but fewer collectors compared to last year. European collectors, on the other hand, showed an increase on the in-person purchases compared to previous years, indicating a growing desire to experience artworks firsthand.
Sophie Su Art Advisory, who attended the VIP opening of the fair, reported sufficient sales activity to consider the first days successful. Dealers, somewhat surprised, mentioned that unlike previous years, more purchases were made in person rather than via digital viewing. This suggests a real desire to experience artworks in person and fully engage with what the fair and its surroundings have to offer.
SALES RESULTS
Van de Weghde
We highlight the sale of Roy Lichtenstein‘s Cubist still life, 1974, along with one captivating work by the renowned New York artist Jean-Michel Basquiat and a painting from Pablo Picasso.
Roy Lichtenstein
Cubist still life, 1974
Oil and magna on canvas
91 x 121 cm
Sold
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Crisis X, 1982
Oil, acrylic and oilstick on canvas with rope on exposed stretcher
184 x 114 x 18 cm
Sold
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Untitled, 1984
Acrylic, oilstick & xerox collage on canvas
76 x 48 cm
Sold
White Cube
A Julie Mehretu piece created in 1999 was sold for a staggering $6.75M, the work was last seen at auction six years ago, when it was sold for $2.5M. Mark Bradford’s monumental piece, titled Clowns Travel Through Wires, 2013, was sold for a whopping $4.5M. The gallery also reported the sale of Jeff Wall artwork, The Storyteller, 1986, for $2.85M and David Hammons’s Untitled, 2009 sold for $1.95M and Untitled (Body Print), 1974 sold for $750.000 a 2024 artwork of Gabriel Orozco‘s for an impressive $600.000.
Julie Mehretu
Untitled 2, 1999
Ink, polymer/canvas/board
151 x 182 cm
Sold: $6.750.000
Mark Bradford
Clowns Travel Through Wires, 2013
Mixed media on canvas
272 x 369 cm
Sold: $4.500.000
Jeff Wall
The Storyteller, 1986
Transparency in lightbox
229 x 437 cm
Sold: $2.850.000
David Hammons
Untitled, 2009
Silver paint and mixed media on canvas
281 x 205 CM
Sold: $1.950.000
Gabriel Orozco
Untitled, 2024
Graphite on gesso
120 x 120 cm
Sold: $600.000
We also highlight the sales of Hellter Fucking Skelter, 2001, by Tracey Emin, which sold for $1.45M.
Red Bud, 1964, by Lynne Drexler, sold for $850.000. Tesseract #3, 2023 by Howardena Pindell sold for $650.000 and Tesseract #16, 2024 sold for $500.000. HIDE, 2021 by Antony Gormley sold for $500.000.
Rain Mountain, 1982-84 by Isamu Noguchi sold for $450.000. Holly Species #01, 2024 by Christine Ay Tjoe sold for $225.000.
Hauser & Wirth
Overview Hauser & Wirth Gallery at UNLIMITED Art Basel.
Hauser & Wirth, sales including more than 10 works that sold for more than seven figures on the VIP day alone. Among them we highlight Arshile Gorky’s rare 1946–47 large work on paper, Untitled (Gray Drawing Pastoral), for $16M. Alexander Calder’s Snowflake Tree, 1960 sold for $12M. Agnes Martin’s Untitled #3, 2002 sold for $5M.
Francis Picabia’s Nu assis (Seated Nude), 1942 sold for $4.85M, and Untitled, 1942–43 sold for $1.5M. Blinky Palermo’s Ohne Titel (Untitled), 1975, for $4M. Louise Bourgeois’s Woman with Packages, 1987–93 marble sculpture for $3.5M. Avery Singer‘s Karen‘s, 2024 for an impressive $800.000 and the sale of Jenny Holzer’s red granite benches to an Asian museum for an undisclosed sum.
Arshile Gorky
Untitled (Gray Drawing (Pastoral),1946–1947
Charcoal and pastel on paper mounted on paper
128 x 156 cm
Sold: $16.000.000
Alexander Calder
Snowflake Tree, 1960
Painted metal and wire motorized standing mobile
279 x 203 x 203 cm
Sold: $12.000.000
Francis Picabia
Nu assis (Seated Nude), 1942
Oil on cardboard mounted on wood
105 x 75 cm
Sold: $4.850.000
Louise Bourgeois
Woman with Packages, 1987-1993
Marble with wood base
72 x 14 x 26 cm
Sold: $3.500.000
On Wednesday, June 12th, the gallery made a $13.5M sale of Georgia O’Keeffe’s peaceful artwork titled Sky with Moon. The price of the O’Keeffe painting is worth mentioning, especially since it was sold for $3.5M at Christie’s in 2018. Additionally, a 1978, Philip Guston’s painting, Orders, was sold for $10M. The gallery is also exhibiting the work Fast and loose, 2024 by Flora Yukhnovich for an asking price of £350.000.
Georgia O’Keeffe
Sky with Moon, 1966
Oil on canvas
121 x 213 cm
Sold: $13.500.000
Philip Guston
Orders, 1978
Oil on canvas
199 x 245 cm
Sold: $10.000.000
Avery Singer
Karen, 2024
Acrylic on canvas stretched over aluminum panel
215 x 241 x 5 cm
Sold: $800.000
Flora Yukhnovich
Fast and loose, 2024
Oil on linen
160 x 280 x 3 cm
Asking Price: £350.000
In the fair’s Unlimited section the gallery sold Survival, 1989 by Jenny Holzer, which was acquired for an undisclosed sum by an Asian museum.
Jenny Holzer, Survival, 1989 at UNLIMITED Art Basel.
Gagosian
The gallery sold Jean Michel Basquiat, Untitled, 1982 for an undisclosed price. Other highlights at Gagosian’s booth are an Ed Ruscha painting, Radio 1, offered for $2.8M, which last sold at Sotheby’s in May of last year for $2.1M; and Christopher Wool’s Untitled (OH, OH), 1990, which was bought at a Christie’s sale in 2021 on an estimate of $8M to $12M.
Also at Gagosian, Andy Warhol’s Hammer & Sickle, 1976, which last sold at Sotheby’s in 2017 for $5.5M, was on offer for $8.5M.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Untitled, 1982
Oilstick and ink on paper
108 x 77 cm
Sold
Andy Warhol
Hammer and sickle, 1976
Acrylic and silkscreen ink on linen
182 x 218 cm
Asking Price: $8.500.000
Ed Ruscha
Radio [#1], 1963
Oil and black ink on paperboard mounted to canvas
37 x 32 cm
Asking Price: $2.800.000
Christopher Wool
Untitled (OH, OH), 1990
Enamel and acrylic on aluminum
243 x 182 cm
Price on Request
David Zwirner
The gallery sold a Joan Mitchell diptych titled Sunflowers, 1990–91, for $20M. Zwirner also sold Gerhard Richter’s 2016 Abstraktes Bild (Abstract Painting) for $6M. At Unlimited fair section the gallery sold a Yayoi Kusama‘s monumental sculpture Aspiring to Pumpkin’s Love, the Love in My Heart, 2023 for $5M.
Joan Mitchell
Sunflowers, 1990-1991
Oil on canvas in two parts
280 x 400 cm
Sold: $20.000.000
Gerhard Richter
Abstraktes Bild (Abstract Painting), 2016
Oil on canvas
100 x 67 cm
Sold: $6.000.000
Yayoi Kusama
Aspiring to Pumpkin’s Love, the Love in My Heart, 2023
Bronze and urethane paint
345 x 561 x 148 cm
Sold: $5.000.000
Josef Albers’s Study for Homage to the Square, 1966 sold for $1.6M and On the Other Side, 1952 sold for $1.1M. Robert Ryman’s artwork from 1997 sold for $1.5M
Other sales are Scott Kahn’s Wolf Moon, 2023 sold for $900.000. Elizabeth Peyton’s Yes! (Vampire), 2024 and Ang in London (Ang Tshering Lama), 2022–24 sold for $900.000 apiece. Liu Ye’s El Aleph, 2023 sold for $800.000.
Josef Albers
Study for Homage to the square, 1966
Oil on paper
31 × 33 cm
Sold: $1.600.000
Josef Albers
On the Other Side, 1952
Oil on Masonite in artist’s frame
45 x 68 cm
Sold: $1.100.000
Robert Ryman
Untitled, 1997
Oil and varnish on stretched cotton canvas
50 x 50 cm
Sold: $1.500.000
PACE Gallery
At PACE, Wayne Thiebaud’s Sliced Pie Stand, 2017/2018 was sold for $2.25M. Agnes Martin’s Untitled #20, 1974 which last sold at auction in 2012 for $2.43M was on offer for $12.5M, and sold before the end afternoon.
Visitors at PACE’s booth were greeted by a large Jean Dubuffet bench sculpture called Banc-Salon. By early afternoon, the gallery had sold three editions of a total of six of them for $860.000 each, in collaboration with Galerie Lelong & Co.
We also report the sale of Loie Hollowell’s Split Orbs in fuchsia, yellow, blue and purple, 2024 sold for $450.000. Nigel Cooke’s The Nurture of Jupiter, 2024 sold for $330.000. Emily Kame Kngwarreye’s Yam Story, 1995 sold for $250.000. Kngwarreye’s Emu – Yuyara and Yam – Annlara Dreaming at Alalgura, 1990 also sold for $220.000.
Agnes Martin
Untitled #20, 1974
Acrylic, graphite and gesso on canvas
82 x 182 cm
Sold: $12.500.000
Jean Dubuffet
Banc-Salon (Cliché 8269), 1970–2024
Polyurethane paint on epoxy
63 × 549 × 405 cm, bench
90 × 210 × 200 cm, kite (Le tétrapode)
65 × 200 × 155 cm, kite (Le nébuleaux)
Sold: $860.000 each
Two Emily Kam Kngwarray, one for $250.000 and the other for $220.000. Kngwarray will be featured at Tate Modern in London next summer. Paulina Olowska’s The Philosophin (Verena in Vienna), 2023 sold for $250.000. Jules de Balincourt’s When Figures Get Lost, 2024 sold for $200.000. Michal Rovner’s Glass Flowers, 2024 sold for $175.000. Qiu Xiaofei’s The Couch, 2022 sold for $170.000. Gideon Appah’s All of Our Days, 2023 sold to a museum for $120.000. Hank Willis Thomas’s Fy-ah, 2024 sold for $110.000 and a
Alicja Kwade’s Continuum, 2024 sold for $100.000.
Emily Kam Kngwarray
Yam Story, 1995
Synthetic polymer paint on linen
121 x 92 cm
Sold: $250.000
Emily Kam Kngwarray
Emu – Yuyara and Yam – Annlara Dreaming at Alalgura, 1990
Synthetic polymer paint on linen
120 x 90 cm
Sold: $220.000
Jack Shainman Gallery
Jack Shainman Gallery reported the sale of a work by Kerry James Marshall, although the amount remains undisclosed.
Kerry James Marshall
Terra Incognita, 1991
Acrylic, ink and paper collage laid on canvas with metal grommets
94 x 74 cm
Sold
Sean Kelly Gallery
Sean Kelly Gallery featuring an artwork by Kehinde Wiley reported a sale of a painting for $250.000.
Kehinde Wiley
Kehinde Wiley Portrait of Pascal Diouf, 2024
Oil on canvas
61 x 45 cm
Sold: $250.000
Lisson Gallery
The gallery sold a Anish Kapoor’s Black, 2023 sold for $1.2M, Mipa 5 Light to Prussian Blue Satin, 2023 sold for $675,000, and Mipa 5 Blue to Clear, 2023 sold for $791.975. Lee Ufan’s Response, 2024 sold for $850.000. Sean Scully’s Pieta, 2022 sold for $675.000, and Wall of Light Green Mountain, 2022 sold for $562.500
Rodney Graham’s Refraction Study after Jerry Lewis (Artists and Models, 1955), 2020 sold for $250.000.
Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Opticks 025, 2018 sold for $250.000, and Opticks 479, 2018 sold for $250.000.
Olga de Amaral’s Soles A, 2014 sold for $200.000. Ding Yi’s Appearance of Crosses 2023-12, 2023 sold for $170.000. Wael Shawky’s Al Araba Al Madfuna, Paintings, 2019 sold for $120.000.
Anish Kapoor
Black, 2023
Fiberglass, paint
186 x 186 x 37 cm
Sold: $1.200.000
Greene Naftali
Greene Naftali Gallery sold a monumental masterpiece by Justin Casguiat for $240.000.
Justin Casguiat
The edge of curiosity-hunting, 2024
Oil, distemper, and chalk on hand-poured paper in artist’s frame
177 x 597 x 6 cm
Sold: $240.000
Thaddaeus Ropac
The gallery sold a major Robert Rauschenberg‘s work from 1985 for an impressive sum of $3.85M. In addition, several editions of Georg Baselitz bronze sculpture sold for €2M each, along with other works by the same artist, priced between €1.2M and €1.8M.
Robert Rauschenberg
Market Altar / ROCI MEXICO, 1985
Silkscreen ink, acrylic, fabric and gold leaf on canvas.
1313 x 293 cm
Sold: $3.850.000
Georg Baselitz
Dresdner Frauen – Die Elbe, 1990/2023
Bronze
154 x 65 x 67 cm
Sold: $2.000.000
Other highlights include Robert Longo‘s Untitled (After Rubens; The Massacre of the Innocents, c. 1610), 2024, which sold for $800.000. Antony Gormley‘s HERE, 2021, sold for $760.107. Midday Blue, 2024, by Sean Scully, sold for $450.000. Daniel Richter‘s The share fitting, 2024 was sold for $449.902.
Ohne Titel, by Martha Jungwirth, aus der Serie “Édouard Manet, Der Spargel”, 2023 sold for $449.902.
Magic Meadow, by Joan Snyder, 1994, sold for $506.738. Hand-in-Glove by David Salle, from the “New Pastoral” series, 2024, sold for $443.395.
Gladstone Gallery
The gallery sold a sculpture by Jannis Kounellis, Untitled (Wooden Rose), 1966 for $2.5M a work on paper by Keith Haring for $1.5M; and two paintings by Elizabeth Peyton for $1.5M and $1.35M each. Gray sold a painting by Ellsworth Kelly for $2M. Alison Jacques sold a sculpture by Hannah Wilke for $1.25M.
Jannis Kounellis
Untitled (Wooden Rose), 1966
Wooden feather on canvas
150 x 130 cm
Sold: $2.500.000
Almine Rech
Almine Rech’s reported sales were led by Tom Wesselmann’s Man Ray at the Dance, 2004, which sold for a price in the range of $2.5M – $3M. Other key sales reported by the gallery included a painting by Serge Poliakoff for $642.888 – $750.036. A painting by Javier Calleja for $350.000 – $370.000.
At a price of $350.000 – $400.000 were sold a painting by Ha Chong-hyun a painting by Larry Poons for $350.000 – $400.000 and another painting by Wesselmann. A painting by Vivian Springford for $150.000 – $170.000. A painting by Mehdi Ghadyanloo for $128.578 – $160.722.
Tom Wesselmann
Man Ray at the Dance, 2004
Oil on canvas
248.9 x 188 cm
Sold: $2.500.000 – $3.000.000
Canada Gallery
Joan Snyder’s vibrant and textured abstract artworks were showcased at New York’s Canada Gallery, where her pieces were both sold and reserved for prices ranging from $180.000 to $190.000. The gallery also placed a 2013 painting by Joe Bradley for an undisclosed sum.
Joe Bradley
Untitled, 2013
Oil on canvas
153 x 159 x 6 cm
Sold
David Kordansky Gallery
David Kordansky Gallery’s top reported sales included Jonas Wood’s Japanese Night Landscape, 2023 sold for $650.000. Fred Eversley’s Untitled (cylindrical lens), 2024 sold for $550.000. Shara Hughes’s Wide Net, 2024 sold for a price in the range of $400.000 – $450.000. Mary Weatherford’s Sakura, 2024 sold for $300.000. Hilary Pecis’s Black Tablecloth Arrangement, 2024 sold for $200.000. Joel Mesler’s Untitled (Love Life), 2024 sold for $155.000. Lesley Vance’s Untitled, 2024 sold for $150.000.
Fred Eversley
Untitled (cylindrical lens), 2024
Cast polyurethane
248 x 48 x 43 cm
Sold: $550.000
Mary Weatherfor
Sakura, 2024
Flashe on linen
167 x 152 cm
Asking Price: $300.000
MASSIMODECARLO
MASSIMODECARLO Gallery’s Booth view
Alighiero Boetti’s Seicentoventicinque lettere dai cento colori i colori del mondo nel mese di marzo dell’anno mille nove 100 ottanta nove, 1989 sold for $857.184. Maurizio Cattelan’s TBT, 2024 sold for around $642.990. Yan Pei-Ming’s Léon Tolstoï, 2024 sold for $321.495. Elmgreen & Dragset’s This is How We Play Together, Fig. 3 (Marble), 2023 sold for $267.870. Dominique Fung’s Tang Dynasty Horses as Offering, 2024 sold for $170.000 and Translucent Hand Fan, 2024 sold for $110.000. Lenz Geerk’s Rest, 2024 sold for $120.000.
Alighiero Boetti
Seicentoventicinque lettere dai cento colori del mondo nel mese di marzo dell’anno mille, 1989,
textile embroidery
101 x 103 cm
Sold: $857.184
Garth Greenan Gallery
Garth Greenan Gallery’s Booth view
The Gallery reported the sale of multiple works by Fritz Scholder for $350.000 – $700.000apiece, a painting by Howardena Pindell for a price in the range of $300.000– $500.000, and multiple paintings by Emmi Whitehorse for prices in the range of $200.000 – $250.000.
P.P.O.W
P.P.O.W Gallery’s Booth view
In the P.P.O.W Gallery, we highlight the sale of Tattoos Reveal–Slayer’s Secret World of Delusions, 1984 by Martin Wong sold for $575.000 before the fair. The gallery also presents the work of Belgian artist Sanam Khatib, who’s represented by Gallery Mendes Wood in Brazil.
Martin Wong
Tattoos Reveal–Slayer’s Secret World of Delusions, 1984
Acrylic on canvas
121 x 121 cm
Sold: $575.000
Sanam Khatibi
Open Season, 2024
Oil and pencil on canvas
230 x 180 cm
Asking Price: $160.000
Martin Wong
Did I ever have a chance?, 1999
Acrylic on canvas
154 x 121 cm
BLUM
BLUM Gallery’s Booth view
The gallery sold Ha Chong-hyun’s Conjunction 24-08, 2024 sold for $390.000. Yoshitomo Nara’s Untitled, 2013 sold for $175.000 and Worry Girl, 2020 sold for $110.000. Eddie Martinez’s Untitled, 2020 sold for $125.000. Friedrich Kunath’s This Is My Song, 2023–24 sold for $115.000. Koji Enokura’s Figure A—No.1, 1982 sold for $110.000. Aaron Garber-Maikovska’s Chino Hills, 2024 sold for $105.000.
Kukje Gallery
Overview of Kukje Gallery.
Kukje Gallery’s sales were led by Lee Ufan’s Dialogue, 2021, which sold for a price in a range of $800.000 – $960.000. The gallery also sold works by Haegue Yang, Kim Yun Shin, Sungsic Moon, Louise Bourgeois, Jean-Michel Othoniel, Gimhongsok, and Daniel Boyd for five-figure prices.
Mennour
Overview of Mennour Gallery.
Gallery top sales included a painting by Lee Ufan for $900.000, Anish Kapoor’s Prussian Blue, 2023 for $823.654, Daniel Buren’s Les Tableaux, quatre éléments – Bleu Marine, Mai, 1991 for $535.740, and a painting by Zao Wou-ki for $407.162. The gallery also sold a Ugo Rondinone sculpture for $390.000 and two works by the artist for $370.000 and $351.000 apiece, as well as two works by Alberto Giacometti each sold for $375.018.
Gallery Mehdi Chouakri
Mehdi Chouakri Gallery’s Booth view
In the Mehdi Chouakri Gallery we report the sale of five oil and oil stick on canvas by Johanna Dumet together they were sold for €72.750, Ottomania, 1984 by Salvo for €60.000, Sylvie Fleury Free Buren, 2012 for €65.000 and three works by Peter Roehr with prices ranging from €2.000 to €25.000, all works for international collections In addition, most notably Saâdane Afif Lady Liberty’s Bones (Material for a Procession), 2009 sold for €42.000 to the Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien.
Johanna Dumet
Chez Jule, 2024
Oil and oil stick on canvas
140 x 220 cm
Sold
Salvo
Ottomania, nd. (ca. 1984)
Oil on canvas
100 x 80 cm
Sold: €60.000
Sylvie Fleury
Free Buren, 2012
Acrylic on canvas
165 x 165 cm
Sold: €65.000
Saâdane Afif
Lady Liberty’s Bones (Material for a Procession), 2009
Scale model, wood lacquered
Sold: €42.000
Galerie Nordenhake
Nordenhake Gallery’s Booth view
The gallery draws attention to the remarkable sale of Stanley Whitney’s Bird Call, 2024, which fetched an incredible price of $450.000. A buyer acquired John Zurier’s Love Letter, 2022, for a substantial sum of $72.000. Mehdya, 2024 by Ayan Farah for $50.000 and Port Douglas, East view. January 1, 2100, 2024 by Paul Fägerskiöld for $35.000. Sold between $35.000 to $40.000 the gallery reports multiple works by Frida Orupabo and Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa.
Stanley Whitney
Bird Call, 2024
Oil on linen
152 x 152 cm
Sold: $450.000
John Zurier
Love Letter, 2022
Glue-size tempera on linen
228 x 141 cm
Sold: $72.000
PACE and Gray Gallery
Overview of Torkwase Dyson’s Errantry, 2024 at UNLIMITED Art Basel.
Torkwase Dyson’s sculpture Errantry was sold by Pace and Gray to Inhotim Museum in Brazil for $380.000. The piece is currently exhibiting at the Whitney Museum.
Balice Hertling
Overview of Julie Beaufils’ Inner Sources at UNLIMITED Art Basel.
Even before the start of the fair, the exquisite installation of Julie Beaufils’ Inner Sources paintings at Unlimited was already purchased by a Hong Kong collection for $180.000.
Goodman Gallery
Goodman Gallery’s Booth view
The Johannesburg-based Gallery William Kentridge’s Washer, 2024 sold for $600.000 to a private foundation in Belgium. Three editions of Kentridge’s sculpture Seven Figures, 2023 also sold for $275.000 each, and Drawing for Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot (Large jug), 2020 sold for $200.000. Yinka Shonibare’s Refugee Astronaut VI, 2024 sold for $316.790. Carrie Mae Weems’s Painting the Town #2, 2021 sold for $100.000 to a “prominent U.S. collector.”
The gallery also sold multiple pieces by Atta Kwami, with prices ranging from $40.000 to $200.000. Kudzanai Chiurai’s Black Vanguard Comunique 4, 2024 sold for $150.000 to a private foundation in Japan. Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum’s You’ll be sorry, 2023 sold for $100.000 to a private foundation in Jakarta. Other five-figure sales at the gallery were for works by artists including Kapwani Kiwanga, Pélagie Gbaguidi, and Claire Gavronsky.
William Kentridge
Washer, 2024
Bronze, edition STD 1/5
129 x 73 x 105 cm
Sold: $600.000
Yinka Shonibare CBE RA
Refugee Astronaut VI, 2024
Fibreglass mannequin, Dutch wax printed cotton textile, net, possessions, astronaut helmet, moon boots and steel baseplate
190 x 110 x 120 cm
Sold: $316.790
Galerie Templon
Templon Gallery’s Booth view
At Galerie Templon’s booth, reported the sale led by a $117.863 painting by Omar Ba, and also included several works by Chiharu Shiota for prices ranging from $12.858 – $192.866 as well as several paintings by Alioune Diagne were sold for prices ranging from $32.000 to $85.000.
Lehmann Maupin
Lehmann Maupin Gallery’s Booth view
The gallery successfully completed the sale of two paintings by Korean artist Kim Yun Shin to collectors in Seoul and Hong Kong. The specific amount of the sale remains undisclosed. Cecilia Vicuña’s La migranta, 2024 sold for a price in the range of $400.000 – $450.000 to “an important institution in South Korea. Teresita Fernández’s Manigua (Apparition)2, 2023 sold for $375.000 to “a prominent collector.”
Fernández’s Dark Earth(Groundwater), 2023 also sold for $375.000. Lee Bul’s Perdu 197 CXCVII, 2024 sold for $190.000 and Perdu 195 CXCV, 2024 sold for $190.000. Dominic Chambers’s The Zone, 2023 sold for $125.000, Thunderscape #1 (When I am Among the Trees), 2024 sold for $100.000, and Shadow Hour, 2023 sold for $100.000 each.
Cecilia Vicuña
La migranta, 2024
Oil on canvas
72 x 91 x 2 cm
Sold: $400.000 – $450.000
Teresita Fernández
Manigua(Apparition)2, 2023
Solid charcoal, black sand, mixed media on aluminum panel
213 x 152 x 7 cm
Sold: $375.000
Richard Gray Gallery
Richard Gray Gallery’s Booth view
A painting by Ellsworth Kelly sold for $2M at Gray Gallery.
Tornabuoni
Tornabuoni Gallery’s Booth view
A painting by Chirico for a ranging price of €1.2M and €1.6M in Tornabuoni and Claudio Parmiggiani’s Untitled, 2023 for a ranging price of $107.148 – $160.722.
Annely Juda Fine Art
Annely Juda Fine Art Gallery’s Booth view
David Hockney’s Water Lilies in the Pond with Pots of Flowers, 2021 sold for a price in the range of $600.000 – $800.000, Some gladioli, 2021 sold for $100.000 – $150.000, and Portrait of Simon, 2003 sold for $80.000 – $100.000. Christo’s Curtains for La Rotonda, Milan, 1970 sold for $150.000 – $200.000 to a private collection in Italy. The artist’s Untitled (Cans), 1959 also sold for $100.000 – $150.000. Leon Kossoff’s Embankment Underground Station, 1993 sold for $70.000 – $100.000 to a private collection in the U.S.
David Hockney
Water Lilies in the Pond with Pots of Flowers, 2021
Digital Art
209 x 199 cm
Sold: $600.000 – $800.000
Christo
Curtains for La Rotonda, Milan, 1970
Collage
71 x 56 cm
Sold: $150.000 – $200.000
OTHER HIGHLIGHTS
Xavier Hufkens
Overview Xavier Hufkens Gallery at UNLIMITED Art Basel.
The Gallery sold a sculpture by Donald Judd for $1.45M. Two paintings by Leon Kossoff for $1.2M and $200.000, respectively. Two sculptures by Louise Bourgeois for $1.2M and $185.000 apiece, as well as a gouache by the artist for $175.000. A “sold-out edition of a large-scale sculpture” by Thomas Houseago each sold for $375.000. A painting by Zhang Enli for $270.000. A painting by Qiu Xiaofei for $265.000. A sculpture by Lynda Benglis for $250.000. A painting by Thierry De Cordier for $133.935.
Sprüth Magers
Overview Sprüth Magers Gallery.
Sprüth Magers’s reported sales were led by George Condo’s Rosemary’s Baby, 2024, which sold for $1.95M to a U.S. collector. Other reported sales from the gallery included the following: Barbara Kruger’s Untitled (Being and nothingness), 2024 sold for $450.000 to a collector in Asia. Jenny Holzer’s Truisms: MONEY CREATES TASTE, 2013–22 sold for $400.000. Rosemarie Trockel’s Milieu, 2022 sold for $407.160 and Pot, 2006 sold for $235.813.
Anne Imhof’s Untitled (Silas), 2024 sold for $267.870 to a collector in the EU and Suicidal Tendencies (Bunnies and Clown), 2024 sold for $198.223. Kara Walker’s Petechiae and Purpura in the Underworld, 2024 sold for $250.000. Peter Fischli and David Weiss’s Prototype and Middle Ages from Suddenly this Overview, 1981–2012 sold for $203.580 all five to collectors in the EU.
Salvo’s Untitled, 1994 sold for $128.580.
Edward Tyler Nahem
Among the artworks on display at Edward Tyler Nahem’s booth, we are drawing attention to Willem de Kooning Crossed-Legged Figure, 1972. This artwork has been privately owned for over two decades and is currently valued at a price range of $1.5M to $2M.
Willem de Kooning
Cross-Legged Figure, 1972
Cast bronze
61 x 43 x 40 cm
Asking Price: $1.500.000 to $2.000.000.
Victoria Miro
The gallery presents highlights such as the work of Yayoi Kusama, alongside works by Jules De Balincourt, María Berrío, Eric Fischl and historical pieces by Geoffrey Holder, Alice Neel and Paula Rego. There will also be contemporary works by Ali Banisadr, Kudzanai-Violet Hwami and Flora Yukhnovich, among others.
Yayoi Kusama
Pumpkin, 2018
Painted bronze
145 x 151 x 150 cm
Asking Price: $7M
Lévy Gorvy
We spotlight the French painter Pierre Soulages at the Lévy Gorvy Gallery, where his work is showcased with an asking price of $2.1M. ALucio Fontana’s Concetto spaziale, 1955 sold for a price in the range of $3.8M – $4.2M, Joan Mitchell’s Untitled, 1962 for $2M – $3M, and Lee Ufan’s From Line, 1981 for $1.5M – $2M.
Pierre Soulages
Peinture 202, 2015
Acrylic on canvas
202 x 143 cm
Asking Price: $2.100.000
Gregor Podnar
Gregor Podnar Gallery’s Booth view
The gallery showcases a variety of contemporary artists in its exhibition space, featuring notable names such as Primož Bizjak, Marieta Chirulescu, Alexander Gutke, Thania Petersen, and more. Notably, we emphasize the inclusion of Brazilian artist Marcius Galan.
Perrotin
Perrotin Gallery’s Booth view
Highlights include a solo presentation by Jean-Michel Othoniel in the Kabinett sector and the debut of a collaboration with Brooklyn-based Iranian artist Ali Banisadr, alongside new works from Jr Dans la Lumière series.
Continua
Continua Gallery’s Booth view
The gallery brought to Art Basel 2024, works of various artists including: Carlos Cruz-Diez, Eva Jospin, Jr, Anish Kapoor, Julio Le Parc, Michelangelo Pistoletto and Pascale Marthine Tayou. They reported the sale of Anish Kapoor’s Prussian Blue, 2023 for $750.000, Michelangelo Pistoletto‘s Color and light, 2021 for $342.874, Adel Abdessemed‘s Nature Morte, 2023–24 for $203.580, and Eva Jospin’s Fontaine, 2024 for $128.578.
Anish Kapoor
Prussian Blue to Mipa Blue, 2023
Stainless steel and lacquer
130 x 130 cm
Asking Price: $750.000
Michelangelo Pistoletto
Color and Light, 2023
Juta, mirror, gilded wood
120 x 365 x 4 cm
Asking Price: $342.874
Helly Nahmad Gallery
Helly Namad Gallery’s Booth view
Artists Alexander Calder and Pablo Picasso are prominently featured at Gallery Helly Namad.
We see that the market is truly robust, with numerous million-dollar sales, which is particularly impressive given the current political climate in Europe and around the world. As usual, the art world lives in its bubble, but how long will it last? The rise of the extreme right in Europe, although not yet affecting investments in the upper echelons, may eventually impact the management of museum collections. A little reminder for those who may have forgotten: not so long ago, contemporary art was labeled as degenerate and destroyed. We shall see the state of the market at Art Basel Paris in October and find out if the ambiance will still be that electric at the Grand Palais.