What Sold at Art Basel Paris 2025

Art Basel Paris 2025 concluded on Sunday, October 26, bringing six days of dealmaking to a close at the Grand Palais. Some 206 galleries from 41 countries participated in this year’s edition, which was characterized by a positive attitude and strong reported sales from exhibitors.

“What truly stood out this week was the atmosphere,” said Brussels dealer Xavier Hufkens, whose booth “nearly sold out” by the end of the fair. “People came to Paris to look, to feel, and to fall in love with art all over again,” he added.

Most galleries in the main section of the fair opted for group presentations, choosing to flex the breadth of their programs and the strength of their inventories. Other sections included Emergence, which featured emerging artists exhibited by young galleries, and Premise, which highlighted historical curated presentations.

This year’s Art Basel Paris got underway with a newly launched “Avant Première” preview on Tuesday afternoon, when a smaller pool of select invitees was welcomed to the Grand Palais a day before its standard “First Choice” VIP opening. The result of the move—intended to prioritize galleries’ most important clients—created an immediate tone that was more serious and transaction-focused from 3 to 7 p.m., with deals being struck at a more efficient pace than at recent comparable art fair preview days.

“Art Basel Paris was very intense from the first 30 minutes of the Tuesday preview,” said Paris-based dealer Almine Rech. “That energy was present every single day.” Several galleries noted sustained business throughout the week, reporting that many clients present on Tuesday returned to the fair in the days that followed to confirm prospective purchases.

Art Basel Paris 2025 capped a lively week for the French capital’s art scene. Noteworthy satellite fairs included Paris Internationale and Design Miami.Paris, as well as a growing number of smaller, community-oriented fairs, including Place des Vosges and 7 rue Froissart. Buzzy museum shows were perhaps the most frequent topics of conversation, including Gerhard Richter’s retrospective at the Fondation Louis Vuitton—which surely influenced sales of the artist’s works noted below—and the “Minimal” survey at the Pinault Collection’s Bourse de Commerce.

The week was also supplemented by a raft of gallery shows, pop-ups, and other art events, which, taken together, reaffirmed Paris’s status as one of the world’s leading art capitals (not that anyone needed a reminder).

Here, we round up the sales reported by galleries at Art Basel Paris 2025.

As well as the leading Richter sale, Hauser & Wirth reported the following transactions:

• Bruce Nauman’s Masturbating Man (1985) for $4.75 million.
• George Condo’s Multicolored Female Composition (2016) for $4.5 million and Femme de Monaco (2025) for $1.85 million.
• Lucio Fontana’s Concetto spaziale, Attese (1964–65) for €3,500,000 ($4.14 million).
• Francis Picabia’s Femme brune (ca. 1941–42) for €850,000 ($1 million).
• Pat Steir’s Blue with Red, Yellow, and Silver (2024–25) for $795,000.
• Rashid Johnson’s Quiet Painting “The Reason Why” (2025) for $750,000.
• Henry Taylor’s Red, white and blue…almost (2025) for $650,000.
• William Kentridge’s Morandi sculpture set (2025) for $550,000.
• Ed Clark’s Untitled (mid-1980s) for $500,000.
• Lorna Simpson’s Personal (2025) for $400,000.
• Firelei Báez’s Blooming in the Noise Of The Whirlwind (World’s Progress) (2025) for $325,000.
• María Berrío’s The Plot (2025) for $250,000.
• Three editions of Camille Henrot’s Mom Me (2025) for $225,000 each.
• Nairy Baghramian’s selves (2025) for €175,000 ($207,200).
• George Rouy’s Inertia (2025) for £120,000 ($163,800).
• Hélène Delprat’s TODAY XXVIII (2025) for €35,000 ($41,400).

White Cube led its reported sales with Julie Mehretu’s Charioteer (2007) for $11.5 million. Other sales included:

• Alexander Calder’s Eight Polygons (1973) for $4.85 million.
• Georg Baselitz’s Dresdner Frauen – Elke (1989/2023) for €2.5 million ($2.95 million).
• Luc Tuymans’s Bend Over (2001) for $1.35 million.
• Cai Guo-Qiang’s cAI™️ Dragon Year: Orange and Purple (2024) for $1.2 million.
• Richard Hunt’s Dogonese (1985) for $650,000.
• Josef Albers’s Study for Homage to the Square (1966) for €550,000 ($651,000).
• Howardena Pindell’s Space Frame #2 (1969) for $550,000.
• Danh Vō’s Untitled (2025) for €350,000 ($414,600).
• Three Francis Picabia works for €300,000 ($355,100), €65,000 ($76,000), and €38,000 ($45,000) apiece.
• Antony Gormley’s SMALL COMFORT (2024) for £250,000 ($341,200).
• An unspecified number of Park Seo-Bo works for $250,000 each.
• Marina Rheingantz’s Juma (2025) for $220,000.
• A Tracey Emin neon for £195,000 ($265,900), “several” drawings for £120,000 ($163,800) each, and the bronze Trying to forget II (2014) for £55,000 ($75,100).
• An unspecified number of Lygia Pape drawings for $180,000 each.
• Isamu Noguchi’s Small Wonder (1946) for $150,000.
• Emmi Whitehorse’s Tsin Tah II (Amidst Forrest) (1992) for $150,000.
• Works by Yoko Matsumoto, Julie Curtiss, Imi Knoebel, TARWUK, and Alia Ahmad also sold for five-figure sums.

Pace Gallery’s reported sales were led by Amedeo Modigliani’s Jeune fille aux macarons (1918), which sold for “just under” $10 million to a private European institution. Other sales included:

• Agnes Martin’s Children Playing (1999) for $4.5 million and Untitled (1977) for $250,000.
• Adrian Ghenie’s The Spanish Room 2 (2025) for €1.5 million ($1.77 million).
• Lee Ufan’s Response (2025) for $900,000.
• Emily Kam Kngwarray’s Alatji – Wild Yam (1992) for $550,000.
• Louise Nevelson’s Moon Garden Gate X (1973–75) for $500,000.
• Elmgreen & Dragset’s The Visitor (2025) for €270,000 ($319,600).
• Robert Nava’s Ability to Teleport (2024) for $250,000.
• Mary Corse’s Untitled (Blue Diamond with White Inner Band) (2025) for $225,000.
• Paulina Olowska’s The Day of Charlotte and Sparrows (2025) for $195,000.
• Robert Longo’s Untitled (Eagle Head Profile) (2025) for $125,000.
• Two Alicja Kwade works for $115,000 and €58,000 ($68,700) each.
• Gideon Appah’s Lovers Tale (2025) for $100,000.
• Arlene Shechet’s Together…(2025) for $80,000.
• Works by Marina Perez Simão, Loie Hollowell, Lauren Quin, Jiro Takamatsu, Max Hooper Schneider, and Pam Evelyn also sold for five-figure sums.

David Zwirner led its sales with a $7.5 million sculpture by Ruth Asawa, whose retrospective opened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York just a few days prior. The gallery also reported the following sales:

Thaddaeus Ropac—one of Artsy’s best booths from the fair—led its reported sales with Alberto Burri’s Sacco e oro (1953), which sold for €4.2 million ($4.96 million). Other sales included:

• Georg Baselitz’s Cowboy (2024) for €3.5 million ($4.14 million); Bei Willem (2009) and Geste Winken (1995) for €1.2 million ($1.42 million) each; Noch Mützen trug man (2023) for €1 million ($1.18 million); and Elke (2017) for €850,000 ($1 million).
• Elizabeth Peyton’s The Solemn Entry of Louis XIV 1667 (2016) for $1.3 million.
• Antony Gormley’s STAND (2023) for £600,000 ($818,800) and MEME XCIX (2010) for €120,000 ($142,100).
• Joan Snyder’s Whole segments (1970) for $600,000.
• Sean Scully’s Blue Bird (2024) for $500,000.
• Daniel Richter’s A Pleasure Drowning (2018) for €450,000 ($532,200).
• Martha Jungwirth’s 7. Oktober II (2023) for €430,000 ($509,000), Untitled (2025) for €340,000 ($402,500), Hier die ersehnten Masse meines Juwels (2025) for €75,000 ($88,800), and Ohne Titel (2020) for €190,000 ($225,900).
• Tony Cragg’s Incident (Solo) (2023) for €325,000 ($384,700).
• A work by Pierre Soulages for €280,000 ($331,500).
• Sturtevant’s Warhol Black Marilyn (2004) for €275,000 ($325,600).
• Liza Lou’s Anaphora (2025) for $250,000.
• Tom Sachs’s Standing Woman (2025) for $225,000.
• Imi Knoebel’s Etcetera CC (2025) for €200,000 ($236,800).
• Miquel Barceló’s La Mar gran (2018/2019) for €110,000 ($130,200).Works by Robert Longo, Zadie Xa, Oliver Beer, and Jordan Casteel also sold for five-figure sums.

Karma’s reported sales were led by Matthew Wong’s White Wave, Black Sand (2017), which sold for $3.5 million. Other sales included:

• Manoucher Yektai’s Still Life with “France-Soir” (1960) for $750,000.
• A Richard Mayhew painting for $550,000.
• Gertrude Abercrombie’s Little Interior (1960) for $450,000.
• Reggie Burrows Hodges’s Kelley’s Work (2024) for $350,000.
• Ulala Imai’s Breakfast (2014) for $120,000.
• Works by Calvin Marcus, Jeremy Frey, Jacob Littlejohn, Jane Dickson, Ann Craven, Marley Freeman, Xiao Jiang, and Randy Wray also sold for five-figure sums.

Sprüth Magers’s reported sales were led by George Condo’s Smiling Profile (2025) and The Fool (2025), which sold for $1.8 million each. Condo recently opened a major retrospective at the nearby Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Other sales included:

• Rosemarie Trockel’s Untitled (1985) for €300,000 ($355,100) and Touchstone (2012) for €200,000 ($236,800).
• Louise Lawler’s Locus Solus (2007/2009) for $90,000.
• Hyun-Sook Song’s Brushstrokes-Diagram (2009) for €70,000 ($82,900).
• Salvo’s Primavera (2007) for €58,000 ($68,700).
• Gala Porras-Kim’s 1 case C.33.A… (2025) for $60,000.
• Henni Alftan’s Ace (2025) for $50,000.
• Works by David Salle, Gretchen Bender, and Andreas Schulze also sold for five-figure sums.

Cardi Gallery led its sales with Lucio Fontana’s Concetto Spaziale, Natura (1962–63) which had an asking price of €1.5 million ($1.77 million). Other sales included:

• Jannis Kounellis’s Untitled (2015) for €300,000 ($355,100).
• Pier Paolo Calzolari’s Untitled (1968) for an asking price of €350,000 ($414,600).
• Mimmo Rotella’s Senza Titolo (1958) for an asking price of €130,000 ($153,900).
• Agostino Bonalumi’s Bianco (1975) for an asking price €130,000 ($153,900).
• Vincenzo de Cotiis’s UNTITLED 24 (1997) for €95,000 ($112,500).

Xavier Hufkens’s reported sales were led by a Tracey Emin painting for £1.2 million ($1,637,600). Other sales included:

• An Alice Neel painting for $1 million.
• Two Thomas Houseago sculptures for $575,000 and $250,000.
• A Louise Bourgeois sculpture for $500,000.
• A Thierry De Cordier painting for €250,000 ($296,000) and two works on paper for €30,000 ($35,500) each.
• A John Chamberlain sculpture for $285,000.
• A George Condo work on paper for $250,000.
• A Qiu Xiaofei painting for $225,000.
• A Lesley Vance painting for $180,000.
• A Leon Kossoff painting for £120,000 ($163,800).
• Three Tatiana Trouvé sculptures each for prices in the €25,000–€175,000 ($29,600–$207,200) range.
• A McArthur Binion painting for $150,000.
• Four Mark Manders sculptures in the range of €115,000–€130,000 ( $136,000–$153,900) apiece.
• Additional works by Emin, Matt Connors, Nathanaëlle Herbeli, Constantin Nitsche, and Robert Mapplethorpe sold for five-figure sums.

Mennour’s reported sales were led by a $1.3 million Andy Warhol work. Other sales included:

• Two Lee Ufan paintings for $1 million each.
• A Gerhard Richter work for $280,000.
• A Ugo Rondinone painting for $240,000.
• An Adam Pendleton work for $225,000.

David Kordansky Gallery’s reported transactions were led by Jonas Wood’s Japanese Garden View (2025), which sold for $1.1 million. Other sales included:

• Mary Weatherford’s Veil of Veronica (2024–25) for $300,000.
• Shara Hughes’s Hidden Pretty (2019) in the $225,000–$275,000 range.
• Hilary Pecis’s Sitting Room (2025) for $180,000.
• Jennifer Guidi’s A Never-Ending Whirl of Evanescence (2025) for $170,000.
• Betty Woodman’s Balustrade Relief Vase: 08-1 (2008) for $150,000.
• Lucy Bull’s 16:55 (2025) for a price in the $100,000–$145,000 range.
• Odili Donald Odita’s Sundown (2025) for $100,000.
• Works by Joel Mesler, Ivan Morley, Michael Williams, Kyungah Ham, Maia Cruz Palileo, Tristan Unrau, Mai-Thu Perret, Tom of Finland, Huma Bhabha, Sam McKinniss, Ricky Swallow, and Jared Buckhiester also sold for five-figure sums.

Other reported seven-figure sales included:

Notable blue-chip sales at Art Basel Paris 2025

Several galleries at the fair reported a string of sales for works priced in the high six-figure range. Highlights from these exhibitors are as follows.

Kukje Gallery’s reported sales were led by Lee Ufan’s Response (2025) for a sum in the $850,000–$1,020,000 range. Other sales included:

• Park Seo-Bo’s Écriture No. 220202 (2022).
• Ha Chong-hyun’s Conjunction 24-52 (2024) and Conjunction 23-64 (2023), each for a price in the $250,000–$300,000 range.
• Ugo Rondinone’s fünfzehnternovemberzweitausendundvierundzwanzig (2024) for a price in the $70,000–$84,000 range.
• Jae-Eun Choi’s When We First Met (2024) for a price in the $50,000–$60,000 range.
• A Kwon Young-Woo work for a price in the $44,000–$53,700 range.
• Works by Daniel Boyd, Kim Yun Shin, Lee Kwang-Ho, and Chong-hyun also sold for five-figure sums.

Almine Rech’s reported sales were led by a James Turrell work for a price in the $900,000–$1 million range. Other sales included:

• An Ewa Juszkiewicz painting for a price in the $700,000–$800,000 range.
• A Pablo Picasso work on paper for a price in the $500,000–$600,000 range.
• Ha Chong-hyun and Tom Wesselmann paintings each for prices in the $250,000–$300,000 range.
• Joël Andrianomearisoa’s Les Herbes folles du vieux logis (2020–2025) for a price in the €200,000–€250,000 ($237,000–$296,000) range.
• “Several” Claire Tabouret paintings each priced in the $150,000–$180,000 range.
• A Mehdi Ghadyanloo work for a price in the €130,000–€150,000 ($153,900–$177,600) range.
• Works by Youngju Joung, Oliver Beer, Ji Xin, Joël Andrianomearisoa, and Brian Calvin also sold for five-figure prices.

Lisson Gallery’s reported sales were led by Leiko Ikemura’s Usagi Greeting (440) (2025), which sold for €800,000 ($947,000). Other sales included:

• Anish Kapoor’s Oriental Blue to Black (2025) for £600,000 ($818,800).
• Two prints of Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Bay of Sagami, Enoura (2025) for $400,000 each and three “Opticks” works (2018/2022/2023) for $250,000 each.
• Huguette Caland’s Untitled (1978) for $350,000.
• Ryan Gander’s The storyteller… (2025) for £200,000 ($273,000).
• Otobong Nkanga’s Cadence – Dominance (2025) for €130,000 ($153,900).
• Hélio Oiticica’s Untitled (1955) for $100,000.
• Ikemura’s Paris Almost Midday (2025) for €90,000 ($106,600).
• Laure Prouvost’s Jasper (2024) for €40,000 ($47,400).

Galerie Christophe Gaillard—another Artsy best booth from the fair—led reported sales with Simon Hantaï’s Tabula (1975), which sold in the range of €800,000–€850,000 ($947,000–$1 million). Other sales included:

• A work by Hélène Delprat for €180,000 ($213,100) and another for €38,000 ($45,000).
• Hantaï’s Untitled (1955) for a price in the range of €150,000–€180,000 ($177,600–$213,100).
• Eric Baudart’s Papier millimétré (Skyline) (2024) in the range of €30,000–€35,000 ($35,500–$41,400), and Papier millimétré (2023) for €20,000 ($23,700).
• Additional works by Richard Nonas, Julien Des Monstiers, and Anita Molinero for five-figure sums.

Goodman Gallery—another Artsy best booth—led reported sales with William Kentridge’s Drawing for Felix in Exile (Felix in Flooding Room) (1994), which sold for $600,000 to a U.S. museum. Other sales included:

• Kentridge’s Sobriety, Obesity and Growing Old (1991) for $450,000.
• Kapwani Kiwanga’s A Coincidence of Wants: Silver-Blue (2024) and Silver-Purple (2024) for €120,000 ($142,100) each.
• Yinka Shonibare’s Hybrid Mask (Walu Dogon) II (2024) for £60,000 ($81,900).
• Atta Kwami’s Atideka (triptych) (2010) for £22,000 ($30,000).

Loevenbruck’s reported sales were led by Gilles Aillaud’s Intérieur et hippopotame (1970), which sold for €500,000 ($592,000). Other sales included:

• François Morellet’s Untitled (1951) for €200,000–€300,000 ($237,000–$355,100).
• Two drawings by John Cage for €70,000 ($82,900) combined.
• A sculpture by Daniel Dewar and Grégory Gicquel for €50,000 ($59,200).
• chloé royer’s O (2025) for €25,000 ($29,600).

More six-figure sales at Art Basel Paris 2025

Perrotin led its reported sales with a Pierre Soulages gouache for €400,000 ($472,000). The gallery also reported the following transactions:

• A work by Takashi Murakami for $550,000.
• A painting by Chen Fei for $280,000.
• A painting by Claire Tabouret for a price between $180,000–$210,000.
• Two paintings by Mr. and Murakami for $150,000–$170,000 each.
• A painting by Bharti Kher for €140,000 ($165,200).
• A work by Emily Mae Smith for €135,000 ($159,300).
• A painting by Mr. for a price between €130,000–€140,000 ($153,400–$165,200).
• Two works by Daniel Arsham for prices between $95,000–$150,000 each.
• “More than” a dozen Maurizio Cattelan works from three different series priced between €90,000–€180,000 ($106,200–$212,400) each.
• Works by Otani Workshop, Sophie Calle, GaHee Park, Emily Kuraya, Nick Goss, and Lynn Chadwick also sold for five-figure sums.

Casey Kaplan’s reported sales were led by a Jordan Casteel work for $380,000. It also reported the following:

Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder’s reported sales were led by Katharina Grosse’s Untitled (2024), which sold for €215,000 ($254,500). Other sales included:

• Grosse’s Untitled (2009) for €130,000 ($153,900).
• Sheila Hicks’s Recherche Intérieure (2025) for €120,000 ($142,100) and Views avec moi (2025) for €40,000 ($47,400).
• Bernard Frize’s Harthy (2025) for €116,000 ($137,400).
• Walter Swennen’s Old Magic (2017) for €40,000 ($47,400).
• Jongsuk Yoon’s Hill Landscape (2025) for €35,000 ($41,400).
• Additional works by Herbert Brandl, Jiyeen Lee and Isa Melsheimer for five-figure prices.

Templon led its reported sales with a €200,000 ($236,800) Anthony Caro work. It also reported the following sales:

• A François Rouan work for €165,000 ($195,300).
• Two Chiharu Shiota works for €130,000 ($153,900) each and another for €120,000 ($142,100).
• “Several” Kehinde Wiley works for $85,000–$125,000 each.
• Two Omar Ba works for €100,000 ($118,400) each and another for a price in the range of €95,000–€100,000 ($112,500–$118,400).
• Two Gérard Garouste works for €85,000 each ($100,600 each).
• Works by Philippe Cognée, Jeanne Vicerial, and Nazanin Pouyandeh for five-figure prices.

Mai 36 Galerie’s reported sales were led by Irma Blank’s Radical Writings, Abecedarium 7-4-91 (1991), which sold for €135,000 ($159,800). Other sales included:

• Matt Mullican’s Untitled (Behind that Person) (2011) for €45,000 ($53,300).
• Magnus Plessen’s Untitled (2025) for €40,000 ($47,400).
• Blank’s Radical Writings, Il corpo del silenzio (1983) for €40,000 ($47,400).
• Thomas Ruff’s untitled#20 (2022) for €30,000 ($35,500).
• Works by Maia Ruth Lee, Blank, Raphael Hefti, and Jacopo Benassi also sold for five-figure sums.

Sales from Tina Kim Gallery’s solo booth of works by Lee ShinJa in the fair’s Premise section were led by a 1970s tapestry for $200,000. Other sales included one textile work for $150,000, two textile works for $90,000 each, and another for $70,000.

Magnin-A’s reported sales were led by Billie Zangewa’s Disarming mars (2010) for a price in the range of €100,000–€150,000 ($118,400–$177,600). Other sales included:

• JP Mika’s Le sourire du bonheur (2024) for a price in the €40,000–€50,000 ($47,400–$59,200) range.
• Moke’s Sans titre (1978) and Estevão Mucavele’s Sans titre (c. 1990) each for a price in the €15,000–€20,000 ($17,800–$23,700) range.
• Ana Silva’s Guardiãs 029 (2025) for a price in the range of €15,000–€20,000 ($17,800–$23,700) and Guardiãs 033 (2025) for a price in the range of €10,000–€15,000 ($11,800–$17,800).

P420’s reported sales were led by Irma Blank’s Avant-testo 29-7-99 (1999), which sold for €130,000 ($153,900). Other sales included:

• Filippo de Pisis’s Vaso di fiori con ventaglio (1942) for €100,000 ($118,400) and Vaso di fiori (1950) for €65,000 ($77,000).
• An unspecified number of Irma Blank works each ranging €10,000–€60,000 ($11,800–$71,000).
• Works by Rodrigo Hernández also sold for five-figure sums, and a work by Adelaide Cioni sold for €3,500 ($4,100).

Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel led its sales with Lucia Laguna’s A Paisagem nº 169 (2025) for $190,000. Other sales included:

• A work by Leda Catunda for $175,000.
• Two works by Janaina Tschäpe—a work on paper for $47,000 and a painting, Winter Rose (2025)—for $150,000.
• Works by Valeska Soares, Sophia Loeb, Erika Verzutti, Frank Walter, Marcia Falcão, Antonio Társis, Luiz Zerbini, and Rivane Neuenschwander also sold for five-figure sums.

Other sales at Art Basel Paris 2025

Lehmann Maupin reported sales for a number of works at prices in the range of $20,000–$650,000 apiece. These included works by McArthur Binion, Teresita Fernández, Catherine Opie, Cecilia Vicuña, and David Salle.

Semiose—another Artsy best booth from the fair—led its reported sales with Moffat Takadiwa’s Future cars (2025) and Pasi panodya, Earth consumes (2025) for €35,000 ($41,400) each. Other sales included:

• Another work by Takadiwa for €16,000–€20,000 ($18,900–$23,700).
• An unspecified number of Françoise Pétrovitch bronzes for €12,000–€16,000 ($14,200–$18,900) apiece.
• Five paintings by Xie Lei for €14,000 ($16,600) each.