Louise Bourgeois remains one of the bestsellers at Art Basel
Published: Tuesday, Jun 11th 2024, 22:40
Updated At: Wednesday, Jun 12th 2024, 01:59
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The galleries have already reported numerous sales in the millions on the first day of Art Basel. The artist Louise Bourgeois remained the bestseller. The declared top seller was a sunflower painting by Joan Mitchell with 20 million dollars.
According to the Art Basel Sales Report, the painting was sold by the David Zwirner Gallery. The New York gallery also sold another painting by Mitchell (1925-1992) for 1.3 million dollars.
The German artist Gerhard Richter, whose "Abstraktes Bild" from 2016 sold for 6 million dollars, was also very popular with Zwirner, alongside other million-dollar sales. Three paintings by his German colleague Georg Baselitz went for between 1.2 and 2 million dollars at Thaddeus Ropac from Salzburg.
The Zurich gallery Hauser & Wirth also declared itself to be extremely successful on the first Art Day, reporting half a dozen million-dollar sales. These included a small marble sculpture by Louise Bourgeois ("Woman with Packages"), which sold for 3.5 million dollars.
16 million for a work by Arshile Gorky
This was quite a bit less than their spider sculptures of previous years, for which prices in the double-digit million range had been paid. However, a lot of money, namely 16 million dollars, was paid at the gallery for an untitled work on paper by Arshile Gorky (1904-1984).
A sculpture by Bourgeois also went over the gallery counter with Xavier Hukens from Brussels for 1.2 million dollars.
The sales at Pace (New York etc.) were particularly special. There, an expansive art sofa landscape by Jean Dubuffet was an invitation to sit down. Three editions of his "Banc-Salon" from 1970 to 2024 were sold for 800,000 euros each.
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