{"id":102096,"date":"2025-10-26T14:29:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T14:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/102096\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T14:29:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T14:29:16","slug":"23-million-gerhard-richter-painting-leads-art-basel-paris-opening-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/102096\/","title":{"rendered":"$23 million Gerhard Richter painting leads Art Basel Paris opening sales."},"content":{"rendered":"

Art Basel Paris opened its \u201cAvant Premi\u00e8re\u201d day at the Grand Palais on October 21st, offering an exclusive early preview for a select number of guests ahead of the fair\u2019s more expansive VIP days on October 22nd and 23rd. During this day of early access, the fair kicked off with brisk sales, led by Hauser & Wirth<\/a>\u2019s sale of Gerhard Richter<\/a>\u2019s Abstraktes Bild (Abstract Painting) \u200b(1987) for $23 million.<\/p>\n

Art Basel Paris, running through October 26th, features 203 galleries. The \u201cAvant Premi\u00e8re\u201d day is a new addition to the fair\u2019s typical schedule. \u201cThis is for the market, by the market,\u201d said Art Basel CEO Noah Horowitz of the preview in an interview with the Baer Faxt last week.<\/p>\n

\u201cArt Basel\u2019s \u2018Avant Premi\u00e8re\u2019 proved itself today to be a very smart idea that delivered on all fronts,\u201d said Iwan Wirth, co-founder of Hauser & Wirth. \u201cWhen you put great art in front of great people, magic happens on the spot. We just sold our crown jewel\u2014an exceptional 1987 painting by Gerhard Richter\u2014on our stand.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Richter sale coincides with the artist\u2019s massive retrospective at Fondation Louis Vuitton<\/a> in Paris and a solo show<\/a> at David Zwirner<\/a>\u2019s location in the French capital.<\/p>\n

Here, we round up some of the leading initial sales reported by galleries at Art Basel Paris. Check back on Monday for our full sales report.<\/p>\n

In addition to the Richter, Hauser & Wirth\u2019s top reported sales included Lucio Fontana<\/a>\u2019s Concetto spaziale, Attese (1964\u201365) for \u20ac3.5 million ($4.06 million) and George Condo<\/a>\u2019s Femme de Monaco (2025) for $1.85 million.White Cube<\/a>\u2019s top sales were led by Julie Mehretu<\/a>\u2019s Charioteer (2007) for $11.5 million. Other top sales included Georg Baselitz<\/a>\u2019s Dresdner Frauen \u2013 Elke (1989\/2023) for \u20ac2.5 million ($2.9 million) and Luc Tuyman<\/a>\u2019s Bend Over (2001) for $1.35 million.Pace Gallery<\/a>\u2019s sales were led by Amedeo Modigliani<\/a>\u2019s Jeune fille aux macarons (Young Woman with Hair in Side Buns) (1918) for just under $10 million. Other notable sales include Agnes Martin<\/a>\u2019s Children\u2019s Playing (1999) for $4.5 million, Lee Ufan<\/a>\u2019s Response (2025) for $900,000, and Emily Kam Kngwarrey<\/a>\u2019s Alatji – Wild Yam (1992) for $550,000.David Zwirner<\/a>\u2019s sales were led by a Ruth Asawa<\/a> sculpture for $7.5 million. Other sales included a Martin Kippenberger<\/a> painting for $5 million, a Gerhard Richter painting for $3.5 million, a Joan Mitchell<\/a> painting for $3 million, and a Bridget Riley<\/a> painting on paper for $2.2 million.Thaddaeus Ropac<\/a>\u2019s reported sales were led by Alberto Burri<\/a>\u2019s Sacco e oro (1953) for \u20ac4.2 million ($4.8 million). The gallery also reported sales of Georg Baselitz\u2019s Cowboy (2024), Geste Winken (1995), and Noch M\u00fctzen trug man (2024) for \u20ac3.5 million ($4.06 million), \u20ac1.2 million ($1.3 million), and \u20ac1 million ($1.16 million), respectively.Perrotin<\/a>\u2019s reported sales were led by a work by Takashi Murakami<\/a> for $550,000 and a gouache by Pierre Soulages<\/a> for \u20ac400,000 ($464,000). The gallery also reported selling eight works by Maurizio Cattelan<\/a>, each priced between \u20ac150,000 and \u20ac180,000 ($174,000 and $208,900).P.P.O.W<\/a> reported sales of works by Kyle Dunn<\/a>, Hilary Harkness<\/a>, Dinh Q. L\u00ea<\/a>, and Carolee Schneemann<\/a> for a combined total above $700,000.<\/p>\n

Update: This article has been updated to include White Cube and David Zwirner\u2019s top sales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Art Basel Paris opened its \u201cAvant Premi\u00e8re\u201d day at the Grand Palais on October 21st, offering an exclusive…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[70730,442,498,499,500,501,156,61103,48413,111,43,139,69,74565,52374,58668,38442],"class_list":{"0":"post-102096","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-art-basel-paris-2025","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-artsanddesign","12":"tag-artsdesign","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-gerhard-richter","16":"tag-hauser-wirth","17":"tag-new-zealand","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-newzealand","20":"tag-nz","21":"tag-p-p-o-w","22":"tag-pace-gallery","23":"tag-perrotin","24":"tag-thaddaeus-ropac"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}