At both auction houses and throughout Frieze week we saw a wonderful, well overdue, return to normality with the stands at the fairs buzzing and colleagues and friends tucking into the thousands of works of art on display in London. The Frieze Masters fair, though not as full as normal, was as good as I …
Last week (1st – 7th October) was one of the busiest of London’s calendar as international galleries and collectors flocked to the Big Smoke. The main events were Frieze and Frieze Masters Art Fairs in Regent’s Park as well as the major Post-War and Contemporary sales at Sotheby’s and Christie’s. Both the Frieze fairs were …
2018 promises to be another exciting year for the market provided that enough works of art of real quality (notwithstanding the Rockefeller bonanza) can be found by the major auction houses and galleries. 2017 saw some outstanding prices including the extraordinary result for Leonardo’s work, Salvator Mundi, which made 450m USD at auction in New …
Frieze Masters in Regent’s Park (4th-8th Oct.) was a triumph. I spoke to the majority of the fine art dealers exhibiting and across the spectrum everyone seemed content. This seems to be the first time that Frieze Masters has been properly, commercially, successful. It has taken five years of this particular sector to get going but …
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Over the past four years Frieze Masters has been a welcome addition to the Frieze week mania that sweeps the London art world every October. It is also, in its own way, a welcome respite from its esoteric sister fair on the other side of Regent’s Park: Frieze. The Masters fair showed works of …
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