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Art Basel Paris 2026 wrapped up its fifth edition on Friday, October 23rd, two days earlier than planned, as concerns over further protests in the French capital brought an abrupt end to an otherwise buoyant week of art and dealmaking. The fair, which welcomed 211 galleries from 41 countries to the Grand Palais, announced the early closure on Thursday amid fears that demonstrations over the weekend could jeopardize visitor safety. “We deeply regret that we will not be able to welcome visitors this weekend,” Art Basel said in a statement.

The decision followed widespread protests over living costs and public services, some of which had escalated into clashes and property damage the previous weekend. It left the general public with just one day to visit the fair, rather than the three originally planned. With the bulk of high-value transactions typically concentrated in the three VIP preview days, much of the week’s major business was likely already done. Still, the loss of the weekend may have been felt more acutely by smaller galleries; public days offer valuable opportunities to build relationships and introduce their program to a wider audience.

“The fair started strong. Collectors showed up, sales happened, and everyone survived the questionable temperatures,” advisor Arushi Kapoor told Artsy. “Ironically, the VIPs got their art fix while students, academics, and the broader public missed out.”

Indeed, while the Grand Palais was open, the mood had been markedly upbeat. The Avant Première VVIP day, now in its second year, drew a busy international crowd, with collectors appearing ready to make decisions. As Artsy reported earlier in the week, the fair got off to a flying start, with Hauser & Wirth selling works by Gerhard Richter and Georg Baselitz for around $10 million each, while other galleries including David Zwirner and White Cube also reported multimillion-dollar transactions.

The caliber of works showed Paris’s growing stature as one of the art market’s most important annual fixtures. Among the most eye-catching was Amedeo Modigliani’s Nu étendu (Lolotte) (1917), presented by Pace Di Donna Schrader Galleries with an asking price exceeding $100 million—a striking vote of confidence in the fair’s ability to attract the world’s biggest collectors—that the gallery said received strong interest. The city’s auction house sales also had a banner week, with Claude Monet’s Iris (1924–25) fetching €50 million ($56.2 million) at Sotheby’s, setting a new auction record for a work sold in France.

There was plenty to admire beyond the big-ticket sales, too. Under new director Karim Crippa, the fair featured 32 newcomers, an expanded Premise section dedicated to overlooked historical practices, and an ambitious array of presentations, several of which featured in Artsy’s selection of the best booths. Beyond the Grand Palais, there were also plenty of other fairs at Paris Art Week to peruse, such as Paris Internationale, Asia NOW, Post-Fair, and other satellite events. As our roundup of favorite works under $10,000 at the fairs showed, Paris had something for collectors across the price spectrum.

There had been high expectations going into Art Basel Paris 2026, and the fair’s premature ending was an unusual conclusion. The disruption may have curtailed its public reach, but the reported sales suggest that serious buyers had already made their presence felt. Here, we round up the key transactions reported by galleries at Art Basel Paris 2026.

Leading sales at Art Basel Paris 2026

In addition to the Richter and Baselitz works, Hauser & Wirth’s other sales included:

• A work by Mark Bradford for $4 million.
• George Condo’s Woman with Designer Shirt (2026) for $2.95 million.
• Lucio Fontana’s Concetto spaziale (Spatial Concept) (1961) for €1.7 million ($1.9 million).
• Henry Taylor’s WTF’s my 40 acres & my mule, you lying... (2023–26) for $1 million.
• Alexander Calder’s Four Dots and Brass Tail (ca. 1953) for just under $1 million.
• Pat Steir’s Untitled (1992) for $900,000.
• Cristina Iglesias’s Untitled (Eucalyptus Corner) (1994–97) for €500,000 ($560,000).
• Jenny Holzer’s Providing (2024) and William Kentridge’s Now Practice Heart-Work (2026) for $400,000 each.
• Lee Bul’s Perdu—Silhouette VI (2026) for $290,000.
• Roni Horn’s Just XX (1993) for $200,000.
• George Rouy’s Unknown Lovers (2026) for £195,000 ($261,000).
• Five editions of Camille Henrot’s Tristan (2026), including two for €160,000 ($179,000) each and three for €130,000 ($146,000) each.

Untitled #35, 1963
Robert Ryman
David Zwirner

David Zwirner’s reported sales were led by a painting by Richter for $8.5 million. Other transactions included:

• Five paintings by Robert Ryman for $4 million, $1.25 million, $850,000, $650,000, and $850,000.
• A painting by Joan Mitchell for $3.8 million.
• A painting by Marlene Dumas for $3 million.
• Four paintings by Josef Albers for $3 million, $900,000, $880,000, and $600,000.
• A painting by Luc Tuymans for $2.4 million.
• A painting by On Kawara for $2 million.
• A sculpture by Ruth Asawa for $1.2 million.
• Two paintings by Elizabeth Peyton for 900,000 (currency not specified) and $850,000.
• A painting by Yu Nishimura for $500,000.
• A painting by Bridget Riley for £450,000 ($602,000).
• An overpainted photograph by Richter for $110,000, alongside several editions priced between $75,000 and $350,000.

White Cube reported two major sales by Julie Mehretu, with Rise of the New Suprematists (2001) and Mumbaphilia (J.E.) (2018) each selling for $7.85 million. Other reported sales included:

• El Anatsui’s MivEvi I (2025) for $2 million.
• Tracey Emin’s You Were Part of me (2022) for £990,000 ($1.32 million).
• Cai Guo-Qiang’s Bald Eagle (2023) for $700,000.
• Antony Gormley’s OPEN DOUBT II (2026) for £500,000 ($668,000), and SMALL ADEPT (2025) for £250,000 ($334,000).
• Shao Fan’s Giant Lingzhi 0225 (2025) for $360,000.
• Francis Picabia’s Concour hippique (ca. 1932–34) for €185,000 ($207,000) and Untitled (ca. 1930) for €75,000 ($84,000).
• Pablo Picasso’s Seated woman (recto); standing woman (verso) (1924) for €150,000 ($168,000).
• Emmi Whitehorse’s Fish Pond (1998) for $150,000.
• Two works by Enrico David, Aurora (2025) and Assumption of We (2026), for £120,000 ($160,000) and £80,000 ($107,000), respectively.
• Marguerite Humeau’s Venus of Planina, A 37-year-old female human has ingested an olm’s brain (2024) for £115,000 ($154,000).
• Four works by Ibrahim Mahama, including Measure the Valleys and Down to the corner (both 2025–26) for €120,000 ($134,000) each, and Nyamuthia and Nyankwabe (both 2025–26) for €100,000 ($112,000) each.
• Louise Giovanelli’s Eleusis (2025) for £90,000 ($120,000).
• Fernand Léger’s Masque (projet pour la Création du Monde) (ca. 1923) for €65,000 ($73,000).
• Shigeo Otake’s Eye Gnats (2026) for $16,000.

Pace Gallery’s reported sales were led by Jean Dubuffet’s La chaise (1964), which sold for “more than” $5 million. Other sales included:

• Lee Ufan’s From Line No. 79061 (1979) for $2 million.
• Beatriz Milhazes’s Onde Nascem os Girassóis I (2026) for $1.2 million.
• Richard Pousette-Dart’s Eye of Autumn Snows (1992) for $650,000.
• Robert Longo’s Untitled (Peony) (2026) for $600,000.
• Dubuffet’s Site avec 3 personnages (1981) for $300,000.
• Adam Pendleton’s Black Dada (B) (2026) for $275,000.
• Robert Nava’s Bat with Lightning Cloud Clown with Several Ghosts (2024) for $185,000.
• Alicja Kwade’s Strange Attractor (2026) for €175,000 ($196,000).
• Michal Rovner’s Following (2026) for $175,000.
• Two sculptures by Arlene Shechet, Black Beauty and Pulse (both 2025), for $150,000 each.
• Julian Schnabel’s Portrait of Italy Through Its Trees Painting on Map (7:30 PM) (2026) for $125,000.
• Leo Villareal’s Golden Game (Medium) 6 (2025) for $125,000.
• Two paintings by Nigel Cooke, The Discovery of Fire and I was the Ghost (both 2026), for $100,000 each.
• Pam Evelyn’s Côte d’Azur (2026) for $80,000.
• Two works on paper by Loie Hollowell, Inverse Red Mandorla and Teal Mandorla (both 2026), for $50,000 each.

Sprüth Magers’s reported sales were led by two paintings by Condo, The Mechanical Man and Coney Island (both 2026), which sold for $2.2 million each. Other transactions included:

• Holzer and Lady Pink’s IF YOU ARE CONSIDERED USELESS... (1983) for $450,000.
• Rosemarie Trockel’s Princeton (2016) for €220,000 ($246,000).
• Anne Imhof’s Untitled (2026) for €180,000 ($202,000).
• Louise Lawler’s Formica (2011–12) for $65,000.
• Otto Piene’s Untitled (2014) for €20,000 ($22,000).

Thaddaeus Ropac reported sales led by Fontana’s Concetto spaziale (1953) for €1.8 million ($2.02 million). Other transactions included:

• Baselitz’s Per mano - an der Hand (2019) for €800,000 ($896,000).
• Marcel Duchamp’s L.H.O.O.Q (1919–64) for €650,000 ($728,000).
• Three works by Martha Jungwirth, Der Wal (2024) for €520,000 ($582,000), Untitled (2026) for €460,000 ($515,000), and two further works titled Untitled (2026) for €180,000 ($202,000) and €170,000 ($190,000).
• Yan Pei-Ming’s Oscar Wilde (2026) for €300,000 ($336,000).
• Two sculptures by Tony Cragg, Ivy (2024) and Integers (2023), for €280,000 ($313,000) and €275,000 ($308,000), respectively.
• Louise Bourgeois’s The Puritan Study #17 (1990–97) for €280,000 ($313,000).
• Baselitz’s Strawinskys Fuß (2026) for €275,000 ($308,000).
• Lisa Brice’s Untitled (2026) for $275,000.
• Joan Snyder’s Deep in Me (2025) for $195,000.
• Hans Josephsohn’s Untitled (1952) for CHF 175,000 ($212,000).
• Baselitz’s Ohne Titel (2012) for €110,000 ($123,000).
• Longo’s Study of Ascending F16 Jet (2026) for $90,000.
• Jordan Casteel’s Midnight Nasturtium (2026) for $45,000.

Other reported seven-figure sales included:

• Mennour—one of Artsy’s best booths from the fair—sold Fontana’s Concetto spaziale (1964) for €1.75 million ($1.96 million), Ufan’s Response (2026) for $1.05 million, and two sculptures by Ugo Rondinone for $850,000 each.
• P.P.O.W sold Martin Wong’s La Iglesia de Dios (1986) for $1.75 million to an American institution.
• Yares Art sold Kenneth Noland’s Purkinje Effect (1964) for $2.8 million and Robert Motherwell’s Open #79 (1969) for $750,000.
• Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois sold Niki de Saint Phalle’s Cat Head Totem (2000) for a price in the $800,000–$1.2 million range.

More sales confirmed by Hauser & Wirth at Frieze Masters 2026

Following Art Basel Paris, Hauser & Wirth also confirmed several additional sales from the previous week’s Frieze Masters in London, including a work by Modigliani for $15 million, eclipsing the previously reported top sale of Jan Brueghel the Elder’s Still Life of Flowers in a Stoneware Vase (ca. 1607–08), which sold for “around” £5 million ($6.64 million).

Other newly confirmed Frieze Masters transactions included Paul Gauguin’s La Maison du Pan-du (The House of Pan-du) (1890) for “around” $4.2 million, Fontana’s Concetto spaziale, Attese (Spatial Concept, Expectations) (1963) for “around” €2.5 million ($2.8 million), and Giorgio Morandi’s Natura morta (Still Life) (1963) for “around” CHF 1.6 million ($1.94 million).

Notable blue-chip sales at Art Basel Paris 2026

Several established galleries reported strong sales across the upper six-figure and mid-market price ranges. Highlights from these exhibitors included the following.

Lisson Gallery’s reported sales were led by Anish Kapoor’s Clear to Dark Brandy (2026) for £750,000 ($1 million) and Ufan’s With Winds (1991) for $900,000. Other sales included:

• Kapoor’s Oriental Blue to Clear satin (2026) for £700,000 ($936,000).
• Carmen Herrera’s Pavan #37 (1948) for $650,000.
• Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Ligurian Sea, Saviore (1993) and Sea of Japan, Oki (1987), for $400,000 each. It also sold Sugimoto’s Opticks 661 (2025) for $250,000.
• Ha Chong-Hyun’s Conjunction 25-39 (2025) for $250,000.
• Yu Hong’s Unbound (2025) for $220,000.
• Leiko Ikemura’s magic girl yellow (2025) for €140,000 ($157,000).
• Pedro Reyes’s Concordia (2026) for $120,000.

Karma’s reported sales were led by Reggie Burrows Hodges’s Hutton Modesty Club: Son Runner (2025), which sold for $650,000. Other transactions included:

• Richard Mayhew’s Southern Border (1999) for $450,000.
• Manoucher Yektai’s Untitled (1960) for $250,000.
• Kathleen Ryan’s Bad Strawberry (Blossom) (2026) for $200,000.
• Jeremy Frey’s Vapor (2026) for $140,000 and Aquamarine (yellow) (2026) for $40,000.
• William Turnbull’s Small Sculpture (Idol) (1955) for $70,000.
• Marley Freeman’s reversing engine (2026) for $60,000.
• Nathaniel Oliver’s Down by the River (2025) for $55,000.
• Two works by Henni Alftan, Spaghetti Straps and Matchbox (both 2026), for $50,000 and $40,000, respectively.
• Calvin Marcus’s Untitled (2026) for $30,000.
• Shota Nakamura’s Untitled (2026) for $20,000.
• Ryan Preciado’s Color Theory (Test for Burbank) (2026) for $18,000.

Xavier Hufkens—another of Artsy’s best booths from the fair—reported sales were led by a painting by Charline von Heyl for $475,000. Other sales included:

• A bronze sculpture by Sherrie Levine for $300,000.
• A bench by Tatiana Trouvé for €275,000 ($308,000).
• A mid-size sculpture by Gormley for $250,000.
• A painting by Qiu Xiaofei for $125,000.
• A painting by Richard Aldrich and a plaster mask by Thomas Houseago for $120,000 each.
• Two ceramic works by Sterling Ruby for $50,000–$90,000 each, and a bronze sculpture for $32,000.
• A painting by Lesley Vance for $80,000.
• A small bronze by Emin for £50,000 ($67,000).
• A painting by Nathanaëlle Herbelin for €20,000 ($22,000).

Kukje Gallery’s reported sales were led by Ha Chong-Hyun’s Conjunction 25-40 (2025) for a “sum in the” $390,000–$468,000 range. Other transactions included:

• Ha’s Conjunction 23-47 (2023) and Conjunction 91-50 (1991) for $230,000–$276,000 and $210,000–$252,000, respectively.
• Holzer’s evaluating (2025) for $185,000–$222,000.
• Kyungah Ham’s Needling Whisper, Needle Country / SMS Series in Camouflage / Big Smile C 02-01-02 (2014–15) for $150,000–$180,000.
• Rondinone’s neunundzwanzigsterseptemberzweitausendundvierundzwanzig (2024) for $120,000–$144,000.
• Two paintings by Kibong Rhee, Windward and Road to none (both 2026), for $110,000–$132,000 and $100,000–$120,000 each.
• Julian Opie’s Callie I. (2025) for £45,000–£54,000 ($60,000–$72,000).
• Two works by Jean-Michel Othoniel, both titled Wall Figure (2026), for €32,000–€38,400 ($36,000–$43,000) each.
• Two works by Haegue Yang, Grafting Order and Beau Order (both 2026), for €26,000–€31,200 ($29,000–$35,000) each.
• Two works by Lotus L. Kang for $18,000–$21,600 and $12,000–$14,400.
• Two works by Lee Kwang-Ho for $14,000–$16,800 and $8,000–$9,600.
• Koo Bohnchang’s Vessel (RH 03 BW) (2014) for KRW 15 million–KRW 18 million ($11,300–$13,600).
• Two photographs by Han Youngsoo for $10,300–$12,360 and $3,800–$4,560 each.

Jessica Silverman’s reported sales were led by Hollowell’s Yellow Brain on soft pink shoulders (2026) for $450,000. Other sales included:

• Two historic works on paper by Judy Chicago, The Butterfly Begins Again 4 (1973) and Isabella d’Este as a Majolica Plate (1976), for $125,000 and $85,000.
• Rebecca Manson’s Arctia for $85,000.
• Hollowell’s Pressure in flesh tones for $80,000.
• Matthew Angelo Harrison’s Voices Return (2026) for $65,000.
• Three paintings by Clare Rojas and two by Rupy C. Tut for prices ranging from $20,000 to $65,000 each.
• A wall sculpture by Beverly Fishman for $60,000.
• Marilou Schultz’s Horizon (2026) for $50,000.
• Paintings by Hayal Pozanti and Guimi You for $45,000 each.
• Oliver Osborne’s Portrait of the Artist’s Sons (2026) for $35,000.
• Two glass bells by Davina Semo for $28,000 each.
• Seven works by Koak for $18,000 each, alongside five paintings by Laeh Glenn in the $15,000–$18,000 range.

More six-figure sales at Art Basel Paris 2026

Tina Kim Gallery reported sales led by a painting by Ha Chong-Hyun for $250,000 and a multimedia painting by Ghada Amer for $225,000. The gallery also sold a textile work by Lee ShinJa for $50,000 and a wall sculpture by Suki Seokyeong Kang for $40,000.

Galerie Lelong’s sales were led by Etel Adnan’s Untitled (2020) for €170,000 ($190,000). Other transactions included:

• Pierre Alechinsky’s New Delhi surplombée (1981) for €150,000 ($168,000).
• Juan Uslé’s Horizonte y memoria (2026) for €90,000–€100,000 ($101,000–$112,000).
• Shechet’s Together (2026) for €75,000 ($84,000).
• Kiki Smith’s Blue witness (2024) for €25,000 ($28,000).

Unsui (Duet), 2026
Sanford Biggers
MASSIMODECARLO

MASSIMODECARLO—another of Artsy’s best booths—reported sales led by Sanford Biggers’s Unsui (Duet) (2026) and Alvaro Barrington’s Composition 10.6 (2026), each for prices between $120,000 and $140,000. Other transactions included:

• McArthur Binion’s Circle/Square (2026) for $50,000.
• Skyler Chen’s happy valley? (2026) for €30,000–€40,000 ($34,000–$45,000).
• Daniel Crews-Chubb’s Mask XXIV (2026) for £20,000–£30,000 ($27,000–$40,000).

Casey Kaplan’s sales were led by a work by Casteel for $300,000. Other sales included:

• A work by Amanda Williams for $110,000.
• A work by Hannah Levy for $60,000.
• A work by Kevin Beasley for $35,000.
• A work by Sydney Cain for $22,000.
• Three works by Johanna Unzueta for $16,000 each.

Vaso di fiori, 1943
Filippo De Pisis
P420

Quiet friend who has come so far, 2026
Rodrigo Hernández
P420

Templon reported sales led by “several” works by Gérard Garouste, with “prices reaching” €250,000 ($280,000). Other transactions included:

• A work by Chiharu Shiota for “around” €120,000 ($134,000).
• A work by Omar Ba for “around” €110,000 ($123,000).
• A work by Martial Raysse for “around” €90,000 ($101,000).
• A work by Bilal Hamdad for “around” €65,000 ($73,000).
• “Several” works by Jeanne Vicerial for €25,000–€40,000 ($28,000–$45,000).

P420’s reported sales were led by Irma Blank’s Radical Writings, Schriftzug-Atemzug, 9-11-87 (1987) for “an asking price” of €140,000 ($157,000). Other sales, also reported at “asking prices,” included:

• Filippo de Pisis’s Vaso di fiori (1943) for €70,000 ($78,000) and Natura morta (late 1940s) for €30,000 ($34,000).
• Blank’s Radical Writings (1989) for €40,000 ($45,000) as well as two further works by Blank for €33,000 ($37,000) and €30,000 ($34,000).
• Two editions of Davide Rivalta’s Scimpanzè-Chimpanzee (2025) for €35,000 ($39,000) each.
• Rodrigo Hernández’s Quiet friend who has come so far (2026) for €10,000 ($11,000).

Other notable sales at Art Basel Paris 2026

Embroidered quilt with striped shield bugs, earthworms, dandelions, wild mallows, clover, cockchafer larvae, ladybirds, green stink bugs…, 2026
Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel
Loevenbruck

Cardi Gallery sold Jannis Kounellis’s Untitled (2010) for €350,000 ($392,000) and Bourgeois’s House (1995) for $350,000, as well as two works by Agostino Bonalumi for €140,000 ($157,000) each.

Loevenbruck sold Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel’s Embroidered quilt with striped shield bugs, earthworms, dandelions… (2026) for €65,000 ($73,000).

Magnin-A sold JP Mika’s Bilele, Bilele (Les habits, Les habits) (2026) for €6,000 ($6,700).

Sales reported from the fair’s Premise section—dedicated to historical artist surveys—included:

• Galeria Raquel Arnaud sold four works by Arthur Luiz Piza, including 16 (1948) for €22,000 ($25,000), Sem título crd-149 (1955) for €15,000 ($17,000), and two works titled Untitled (1949) for €7,000 ($7,800) each.
• Blue Velvet sold Sibylle Ruppert’s Curval (1976) for €350,000 ($392,000) to a Polish private collection, and two drawings titled Rencontre sur la lune (1973 and 1974) for €25,000 ($28,000) each.
• Olney Gleason reported sales led by Robert Indiana’s Source I (1959) for $375,000. Other transactions included two works by Ellsworth Kelly, both titled Untitled (Portrait of Robert Indiana) (1957), for $110,000 each; three works by Indiana titled Untitled (1959) for $100,000 each; and two further drawings by Kelly for $65,000 each.

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