Price Check! Here’s What Sold—and For How Much—at the Inaugural Edition of Art Basel’s Paris+ Fair

Here's what dealers say they sold at the inaugural edition.

Courtesy of Paris+ par Art Basel.

The dust has settled after the debut edition of Art Basel’s Paris+ fair and, by most accounts, it was très successful. Early fears about collectors and galleries potentially skipping one of the month’s events, either Frieze London (which wrapped up two weeks ago) or Paris+, were seemingly unfounded, as the turnout at both fairs, and the star-studded events that surrounded them, were very well-attended.

According to the fair, Paris+ welcomed 40,000 visitors over the course of both restricted-access VIP and public days, including French president Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte. Galleries were effusive in their praise for the event, including David Zwirner, who reported sales of more than $11 million on the first day, “certainly numbers that we weren’t able to achieve here in Paris in the past,” as he told Artnet News.

The blue-chip dealer is probably referring to the lackluster sales he bemoaned after the last edition of FIAC, which came just before Art Basel announced its coup to take over as reigning fair of the capital, and in FIAC’s old digs no less.

All in all, the numbers are impressive, if not quite mind-boggling, which tracks with the current economic climate.

Below, as always, is our roundup of reported sales at the fair, converted to USD for ease of reading. Bear in mind that only galleries who choose to share figures are included in this list, so it’s disproportionately skewed toward those who, well, sold the most stuff.

 

 

PAINTINGS

Joan Mitchell, Border (1989). Courtesy of David Zwirner.

$6.5 million:  Robert Motherwell, Je t’aime No II (1955) at Pace

$4.5 million: Joan Mitchell, Border (1989) at David Zwirner

$3 million, Robert Ryman, Untitled (1963) at David Zwirner

$2.7 million: George Condo, The Dream (2022) at Hauser & Wirth

$1.6 million: Adrian Ghenie, Untitled (2022) at Galeria Plan B

$1.5 million: Alex Katz’s, Split 9, (2022) at Gladstone Gallery

$1.4 million: Luc Tuymans, Bouhouche (2007) at David Zwirner

$1.5 million: Sean Scully, North Eagle (1983-84) at Acquavella Galleries

$1.2 million to $1.5 million: Scott Kahn, The Curtains Parted (2022) at Almine Rech

$1 million to $1.5 million: Ed Clark, Paris Rose (1966) at Hauser & Wirth

$1 million: Rashid Johnson, Bruise Painting “Sanctuary” (2022) at Hauser & Wirth

$1 million: Josef Albers, Study to Homage to the Square: Aurora (1957) at David Zwirner

$986,685 to $1.2 million each: Three large paintings by Peter Stämpfli (1970) at Galerie Georges-Hilippe & Nathalie Vallois

$900,000: Robert Ryman, Surface Veil (1970) at Pace

$850,000: Günther Uecker, Shield (2022) at LGDR

$844,582: Tracey Emin, You Were Part of me (2022) at White Cube

$800,000: Avery Singer, Free Fall (2022) at Hauser & Wirth

$732,000: Tracey Emin, You heard me Scream (2022)

$700,000: Alex Katz, Iris 5 (2019) at Thaddaeus Ropac

$493,000 to $641,00: Hans Hartung, T1976-R43 (1973) at Perrotin

$450,000: Theaster Gates, Roof Inheritance II (My Dad Was A Patcher, I Am A Gutter) (2022) at White Cube

$475,000: Adam Pendleton, Untitled (WE ARE NOT), (2022) at Pace

$400,000: Oscar Murillo, (untitled) news (2020-21) at David Zwirner

$400,000: Amy Sillman, Bounty at Gladstone Gallery

$384,871: Georges Mathieu, Aphek (1962) at Applicat-Prazan

$350,000 to $400,000: Ha Chong-Hyuan Conjunction 19-78 (2019) at Kukje Gallery

$350,000: Lisa Yuskavage, Studio Visit (2022) at David Zwirner

$320,000: Victor Man, Two Skulls after El Greco and Blackbird (2017-18) at Gladstone Gallery

$300,000: Henry Taylor, Untitled (2020) at Hauser & Wirth

$250,000: Michaël Borremans, Mercy, 2017 at Zeno X Gallery

$225,000 to $250,00: Ha Chong-Hyun, Conjunction 22-07 (2022) at Kukje Gallery

$220,000 each: Josh Smith, Try To Be Normal (2022) and 10 to 12 (2022) at David Zwirner

$175,000: Matthew Day Jackson, Reichenbach Falls (after Turner) (2022) at Pace

$175,000: Tu Hongtao, Wild Flowers (2020-22) at LGDR

$160,000: Park Seo-Bo, Ecriture No. 220302 (2022) at White Cube

$150,000 each: Multiple paintings by Anicka Yi at Gladstone Gallery

$148,000 to $197,000: Fiona Rae, Untitled (T1000) (1996) at Galerie Nathalie Obadia

$145,000 to $170,000: Wook-kyung Choi, Reject (1974) at Kukje Gallery

$135,000 each: Two paintings by Sayre Gomez at François Ghebaly

$130,000: Kaari Upson, Untitled (2020) at Sprueth Magers

$130,000: Lina Iris Vikto, Unifying of strings & envy for all things with wings (2022) at LGDR

$125,000: Takesada Matsutani, Hills (2022) at Hauser & Wirth

$118,422: Latifa Echakhch, Night Time (As Seen by Sim Ouch) (2022) at Dvir Gallery

$110,000: A large-scale painting by Hermann Nitsch at Pace

$110,000: A work by Omar Ba at Templon

$100,000: Jenna Gribbon, Green Screen Ready (2022) at LGDR

 

$98,685: Paul Thek, Big Bang Painting (1987) at Mai 36 Galerie

$98,685 to $170,000: Wang Keping, Amour maternel (2018) at Galerie Nathalie Obadia

$90,000 to $100,000: Kibong Rhee, Vanishment ㅡ The shadow, 2017 at Kukje Gallery

$88,816: Jacqueline de Jong, Mysterie (1977) at Galerie Allen

$80,000 to $90,000: Korakrit Arunanondchai, Flagless Nation, 2022 at Kukje Gallery

$78,948: Laurent Grasso, Studies into the Past at Perrotin

$70,000: Mika Tajima, Art d’Ameublement (Station Météo) (2022) at Pace

$60,000: Maysha Mohamedi, Grow Me Up in the Fire of Affliction (2022) at Pace

$59,211: Simon Fujiwara, Who the Bær (Femme Sauvage Identity Crisis), (2022) at Dvir Gallery

$55,000: Lenz Geerk, A Drop of Sweat (2022) at Massimo De Carlo

$54,286: Mandy El-Sayegh, Editorial Alias (soon ma’am) (2022) at Thaddaeus Ropac

$50,000: Minoru Nomata, Rise-3 (2015) at White Cube

$50,000: Ilana Savdie, Eat through me, but lucid (2022) at White Cube

$49,342 each: Simon Fujiwara, Portrait of Who? (Femme Extremme Panic Attack) and Portrait of Who? (Icon Panic Attack), both 2022, at Dvir Gallery

$45,000 each: Jessica Rankin, Veiled World, LG (2022) and Spaces Fold In, AR (2022) at White Cube

$44,408: Achraf Touloub, Dei Frari (2022) at Galeria Plan B

$34,439 each: Multiple paintings by Philippe Parreno at Gladstone Gallery

$28,000 each: Two works by Hayal Pozanti at Jessica Silverman

$27,631 to $29,605: Nathanaëlle Herbelin, Mental Landscape, (2022) at Galerie Jousse Enterprise

$25,000: A painting by Ivy Haldeman at François Ghebaly

$12,829 to $17,763 each: Four paintings by Nathanaëlle Herbelin at Galerie Jousse Entreprise

$12,000 each: Two paintings by Cindy Ji Hye Kim at François Ghebaly

$5,000 each: Two paintings on copper by Willa Wasserman at François Ghebaly

$4,144 each: Five works by Anne-Charlotte Finel at Galerie Jousse Enterprise

 

SCULPTURES & INSTALLATIONS

Arthur Jafa,<i> Untitled (New White Flag)</i>, (2022). Courtesy of the artist and Gladstone Gallery.

Arthur Jafa, Untitled (New White Flag), (2022). Courtesy of the artist and Gladstone Gallery.

$2.5 million to $3 million: Gimhongsok, A Breath – Lilac (2022) at Kukje Gallery

$1.3 million: A cast glass sculpture by Roni Horn at Xavier Hufkens

$575,000: Paul McCarthy, WS, White Snow Flower Girl #22016 at Hauser & Wirth

$165,000: Kiki Kogelnik, Blue Bird (1974) at Pace

$120,000: Roberto Cuoghi, SS(XCIIIP)c/m/l (2018) at Hauser & Wirth

$107,000: Tracey Emin, I wanted more (2016) at White Cube

$90,000: Arthur Jafa, Untitled (New White Flag) (2022) at Gladstone Gallery

$88,000 to $98,685: Elmgreen & Dragset, On Target, Fig 11 (2022) at Perrotin

$44,430: Cyprien Gaillard, Untitled (Tooth), (2015) at Gladstone Gallery

$55,000: A sculptural relief by Neïl Beloufa at François Ghebaly

$35,000: A glass and bronze sculpture by Kelly Akashi at François Ghebaly

$7,894 to $24,671 each: Ceramics by Elsa Sahal, (2021-2022) at Galerie Papillon

 

PRINTS, PHOTOGRAPHS, & WORKS ON PAPER

Galerie Papillon. Courtesy of Paris+ par Art Basel.

$450,000: Anni Albers, Study for DO II, (1973) at David Zwirner

$300,000: Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled “Alice B. Toklas’ and Gertrude Stein’s Grave, Paris) (1992) at David Zwirner

$250,000: Alice Neel, Evening in Riverside Park (1927) at David Zwirner

$195,000: Gilbert & George, The Rose of Destruction (1980) at White Cube

$115,000: Luchita Hurtado, Untitled (ca. 1970s) at Hauser & Wirth

$98,702: Georg Baselitz, Komplett mit Nylons (2022) at Thaddaeus Ropac

$98,702 each: Georg Baselitz, Volkstanz (2022) at Thaddaeus Ropac

$73,400 each: Two untitled works on paper by Georg Baselitz at White Cube

$70,000: A work on paper by Huma Bhabha at David Zwirner

$21,000: Peter Hujar, John Heys in Lana Turner’s Gown (I) (1979) at Mai 36 Galerie

$20,000: A drawing by Christine Sun Kim at François Ghebaly

$19,737: Cécile B. Evans, THE ANTIUNIVERSE IS CREATED, 2022 at Emanuel Layr

$14,000: Ilana Savdie, Enguantadita (2022) at White Cube

$12,000 each: A series of watercolors by Ludovic Nkoth at François Ghebaly

$10,000 each: Five photographs by Farah Al Qasimi at François Ghebaly


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