Paris+ par Art Basel kicked off its sophomore edition at the Grand Palais Éphémère with soaring sales, cementing expectations for the leading art fair. David Zwirner reported selling a Kerry James Marshall painting for $6 million, the top sale for this edition of the fair. The gallery also found buyers for pieces by Marlene Dumas, Alice Neel, and Michaël Borremans.
Following the fair’s momentum, Hauser & Wirth also reported strong interest, selling out its booth on the first day. The mega-gallery sold work from renowned artists like Mark Bradford, George Condo, and Roni Horn, among others. Marc Payot, the gallery’s president, revealed that several of these works found homes in elite private collections in France.
Paris-based gallery Mennour reported sales of a sculpture by Anish Kapoor and two works by Lee Ufan. Meanwhile, Thaddaeus Ropac revealed multiple seven-digit sales for the works of Robert Rauschenberg, Georg Baselitz, and Simon Hantaï.
Amid all these splashy sales, Pace Gallery also presented a landmark Mark Rothko painting, Olive over Red (1956), priced at $40 million, at its booth. However, no sales or offers were reported by the gallery.
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