{"id":652018,"date":"2026-06-22T10:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T10:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/652018\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T10:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T10:42:15","slug":"splashing-out-hockney-painting-on-sale-for-9m-at-art-basel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/652018\/","title":{"rendered":"Splashing out: Hockney painting on sale for \u00a39m at Art Basel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p role=\"text\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"is_Paragraph font_caslonIonic _dsp-inline _bxs-border-box _ww-break-word _mt-0px _mr-0px _mb-0px _ml-0px _ff-f-family _fw-f-weight-3048 _fs-f-size-18 _lh-f-lineHeigh3500605 _col-grey_600 _select-auto _ws-normal\">At Richard Gray, gallerists clinked champagne flutes after Hockney\u2019s Studio Interior #2 from 2014 sold for $8.5m. Pace, the mega-gallery which has made headlines recently for cutting a third of its artist roster and a fifth of its staff, had chosen to \u201chold back\u201d their Hockney, an iPad painting, by placing it in the fair\u2019s newly launched Basel Exclusive category. This meant dealers and collectors, who usually hear about sales in advance, only found out about the work when they cast eyes on it on the first day of the fair. \u201cIt added a nice bit of surprise,\u201d said Rebecca Riegelhaupt, Pace\u2019s communications director. Marc Glimcher, the gallery\u2019s chief executive, said selling <a role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/observer.co.uk\/culture\/art\/article\/hockney-through-the-ages\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"is_Anchor font_caslonIonic _dsp-inline _bxs-border-box _ww-break-word _ws-pre-wrap _mt-0px _mr-0px _mb-0px _ml-0px _cur-pointer _ff-f-family _fw-f-weight-18 _fs-f-size-18 _lh-inherit _col-orange_600 _textDecorationColor-orange_600 _td-underline _textDecorationStyle-solid\" style=\"font-weight:var(--f-weight-300)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hockney\u2019s work<\/a> after his death was \u201can incredible honour\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At Richard Gray, gallerists clinked champagne flutes after Hockney\u2019s Studio Interior #2 from 2014 sold for $8.5m. Pace,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1897,6225,6485,6486,53204,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-652018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-art","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-david-hockney","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}