Price Check! Here’s What Sold—and for How Much—at Frieze London and Frieze Masters 2019

You wouldn’t have known that Britain was in the midst of an
existential and political crisis from the activity inside the two
posh Frieze tents in Regent’s Park last week. Dealers were doing serious
business, if not at the same price points or level of verve we
have seen in previous, flusher years. In general, galleries
went heavy on painting and domestic-sized work—with a few notable
exceptions, this was not the moment to take risks or introduce an
entirely unknown figure to the art world.

To capture a snapshot of all the commerce taking place under the
big white tops, we combed through reported and published sales from
the more than 200 participating galleries. Nota bene:
Sales reports are notoriously slippery in the art world. Some
purchases may have been finalized long before the fair, while
others might only be handshake deals, still waiting on paperwork
and cash. But prices themselves are more reliably telling,
providing a snapshot of where individual artists stand in the
matrix of the art market today. Even here, of course, there is room
for slippage: Some dealers occasionally offer inflated figures,
while others prefer to report ranges or the “asking price” to
obscure the actual selling price, or to cover up favorable
treatment that one buyer may have received over another.

We did not include reported sales unaccompanied by a price or
price range in our list, so the galleries that tend to disclose
figures are disproportionately represented here. Pace was
uncharacteristically tight-lipped this year and declined to
disclose prices, but did say that works by Loie Hollowell, Adrian
Ghenie, William Monk, Song Dong, Adam Pendleton, Prabhavathi
Meppayil, Nigel Cooke, Brent Wadden, Nina Katchadourian, and Sam
Gilliam were sold during the VIP previews. Also worth noting:
Gagosian’s solo show of Sterling Ruby sold out, with works priced
around $325,000 each.

Other notable sales without prices attached included 89-year-old
Jagoda Buić’s textiles at Frieze Masters, which reportedly sold out
at Richard Saltoun after Tate acquired one for its
collection. The London-based ArtAncient Gallery also sold a 4.5
billion-year-old meteorite for an undisclosed price.

See below for a round-up of sales from both Frieze London (where
none other than Rihanna popped in over the weekend) and Frieze Masters,
which focuses on art made before 2000. All prices below have been
sorted by medium and price and converted to USD (rounded to the
nearest hundred) for ease of reading.

PAINTINGS

$6.5 million: Cy Twombly’s Untitled [New York
City] (1968) at Hauser & Wirth

$5 million: Philip Guston, Arm (1979) at Hauser &
Wirth

$3.8 million: Kerry James Marshall, Car Girl
2 (2019) at David
Zwirner to a major museum

$3.4 million: Mark Bradford, A Molded Pool of
Stories (2019) at Hauser & Wirth

$1.5 million: A Neo Rauch work at David Zwirner

$1.2 million: Georg Baselitz, Nicht, nicht
verloren (2019) at Thaddaeus Ropac

$1.2 million: Abel Grimmer’s The Tower of
Babel (1604) at Johnny van Haeften Gallery

$988,000: Mario Schifano’s Senza titolo
(Untitled) (1961) at Hauser & Wirth

$575,000: Elizabeth Peyton, Kiss (2019) at
Thaddaeus Ropac

$511,000: Mimmo Rotella, Untitled (1961) at
Hauser & Wirth

$425,000: Lorna Simpson, Darkling (2019) at
Hauser & Wirth

$416,000: Günther
Förg, Untitled (2007) at Hauser & Wirth

$400,000: Oscar
Murillo, manifestation (2018–19) at David
Zwirner

$375,000: Charles Gaines, Numbers and Trees: Palm Trees
Series 1, Tree #3, Julia B. at Hauser
& Wirth

$360,000: Jan Josef van Goyen’s The Ferry (1625)
at Johnny van Haeften Gallery

$350,000–400,000: A work by Kenneth Noland at Almine Rech

$350,000–450,000 each: All four of Stanley Whitney’s paintings
at Lisson Gallery, including Four
Corners (2019)

$329,000: Günther
Förg, Untitled (2006) at Hauser & Wirth

$325,000: Jack Whitten, The American
Dialogue (1989) at Hauser & Wirth

$300,000: Jenny Holzer’s Harm to Ongoing
Matter (2019) at Hauser & Wirth

$296,000: Gastone Novelli, Liuba (1961) at
Hauser & Wirth

$250,000–300,0000: A work by Jannis Kounellis at Almine Rech

$190,000: Gastone Novelli, Nirvana
Needed (1967) at Hauser & Wirth

$180,000: Mario Schifano, Palma (1967) at
Hauser & Wirth

$175,000: Jack Whitten, Space Sifter (2014)
at Hauser & Wirth

$175,000: Luchita Hurtado, Untitled (1975) at
Hauser & Wirth

$175,000: Jenny
Holzer, Understanding (2016–19) at Hauser &
Wirth

$165,000: Rita Ackermann, Mama-MJ with Gypsy kids in
Brazil (2019) at Hauser & Wirth

$160,000: Enrico
Baj, Trillalì-Trillalà (1956) at Hauser &
Wirth

$150,000: Claire Tabouret’s Reception
Hall (2019) at Almine Rech
Gallery

$150,000: Mimmo Rotella, Untitled (1961) at
Hauser & Wirth

$150,000: A painting by Harold Ancart at David Zwirner

$110,000: Jack Whitten, Cultural Artifacts
II (2013) at Hauser & Wirth

$100,000: A Lisa Yuskavage work at David Zwirner

$100,000: Imi Knoebel’s Anima Mundi 57-3,
2019 at Thaddaeus Ropac

$90,000: Sheila Hicks’s Inner Truth (2019) at
Alison Jacques Gallery

$90,000: Jacqueline
Humphries, Untitled (2019) at Modern Art

$85,000: Lois Dodd, Total Eclipse-10:45pm (1996)
at Modern Art

$80,000: Anj Smith, Hidden Activities (of the Midnight
Zone) at Hauser & Wirth

$80,000: Richard Aldrich, Untitled (2010) at
Modern Art

$71,000: Carla Accardi, Rosaverde
(Pinkgreen) (1971) at Hauser & Wirth

$65,000–200,000 each: Six large paintings by Jonathan Lasker at
Timothy Taylor Gallery

$60,000: Sanya Kantarovsky, No Eyes (2019) at
Modern Art

$50,000: Betty Parsons’s Radiant Reach (1978)
at Alison Jacques Gallery

$50,000: A painting by Claudia Comte at Johann Koenig

$50,000 each: Martha
Jungwirth’s Untitled (2011) and Am
Wienfluss (2013) at Modern Art

$45,000: A painting by Dennis Hopper at Franklin Parrasch
Gallery

$43,000: Graham Little’s Man and Dog (2019) at
Alison Jacques Gallery

$43,000 each: Three paintings by Roy Oxlade at Alison Jacques
Gallery

$40,000–85,000 each: All 10 paintings in the solo presentation
of Ivan Morley’s work at David
Kordansky

$40,000: Pieter Schoolwerth’s Random Winner (2019)
at Miguel Abreu Gallery

$33,000: Michaela Eichwald’s Theater (2019) at
Maureen Paley

$30,000: Betty Parsons’s Buzzing (1965)
at Alison Jacques Gallery

$24,600: Ian Kiaer’s Endnote Tooth, Plan
(Blue) (2018) at Alison Jacques Gallery

$12,400 each: Three new paintings by Joy Labinjo,
including A Celebration of Sorts (2019), at Tiwani
Contemporary

$12,000 each: Three paintings by Jonathan Lasker at Timothy
Taylor Gallery

$9,000 each: Ten new works from Alvaro Barrington’s “Date
Paintings” series at Thaddaeus Ropac

SCULPTURES &
INSTALLATIONS

$1.3 million: A vase by Keith Haring at Skarstedt Gallery

$1.2 million: The total sum for four bronze sculptures by
William Kentridge at Goodman Gallery

$900,000: John Chamberlain’s COULDYOUWOULDYOU
(1991) at Hauser & Wirth

$659,000: Michelangelo Pistoletto’s Tavolo con
tavaglia bianca (1982) at Galleria
Continua

$250,000: A Pieta dating to ca. 1390 at Sam
Fogg

$200,000: Sarah Sze’s mixed-media work Hindsight
(2019) at Victoria Miro

$250,000: The Master of Benedictine Pope’s The Death of
The Virgin (ca. 1480) at Sam Fogg

$195,000: Roni Horn’s White Dickinson THE WHOLE OF
IMMORTALITY SECRETED IN A STAR (2006–7) at Hauser & Wirth

$132,000: Bharti Kher’s Algorithm for tectonic
regroupings and divergent boundaries (2018) at Hauser &
Wirth

$85,000: Alex Da Corte’s wall installation Love Will
Always Fine You (2019) at Sadie Coles HQ

$85,000: A sculpture by Tony DeLap at Franklin Parrasch
Gallery

$66,000–440,000 each: Works including Japanese screens and a
pair of large cast-iron basins, among other pieces at
Gisèle Croës Gallery

$62,000: A small bronze from 1966 by Naum Gabo at Annely Juda Fine Art

$62,000 combined: Two lower Paleolithic axes at ArtAncient

$61,000: A table by Alicja Kwade at Johann Koenig

$35,000: Max Hooper
Schneider’s Frescos (2019) at Maureen Paley

$35,000: Paulo Nimer Pjota’s Opium poppies for
12:00 (2019) at Maureen Paley

$24,600: Ian Kiaer’s fabric work Endnote,
ping (2018) at Alison Jacques Gallery

$1,200–6,200 each: Multiple Indian Lingam Stones at Grosvenor
Gallery

DRAWINGS, PRINTS, & WORKS
ON PAPER

$600,000 each: Two Picasso works—Femme nue assise
et enfant (1960) and Buste d’Homme a la
pipe (1969) at Skarstedt Gallery

$225,000: Roni Horn’s Remembered Words —
(Sunflower) (2012–13) at Hauser & Wirth

$137,000: Georg Baselitz’s Ohne Titel, (2019) at
Thaddaeus Ropac

$125,000 each: A selection of charcoal works on paper by Lee
Krasner at Kasmin

$120,000: Robert Longo’s Study of First Elephant
(2019) at Thaddaeus Ropac

$99,000: Armando Testa’s Superga (1947) at
Galleria Continua

$90,000: Robert Longo’s Study of SU
Ukraine (2019) at Thaddaeus Ropac

$62,000–123,000 each: A set of works by Cy Twombly and a work by
Roy Lichtenstein at Shapero Rare Books

$25,000–45,000 each: Three works on paper by Dorothea Tanning at
Alison Jacques Gallery

$12,000–31,000 each: 15 works by Michael Craig-Martin at Cristea
Roberts Gallery

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