"Works at Frieze Masters are not always prohibitively expensive, and sometimes showing works in the low hundreds of pounds can pay dividends. The antiquities dealer Charles Ede took the approach of showing a collection of small drawings by the 19th-century French artist Alexandre-Louis Leloir, bought as a sketchbook. Hung as a gallery wall, the drawings were priced between around £150 and £10,500. Twenty sold on opening day, with more sales yesterday after the gallery rehung."
"The New York-based dealer Christine Berry, co-owner of Berry Campbell, observes that the key in today's selective market is "to think about price point, good paintings for good prices... we have to keep things moving". Exhibiting in the fair's Spotlight section, Berry presented a solo show of the US painter Janice Biala, with prices ranging from $20,000 to $95,000. By Thursday morning, Berry had sold four paintings, priced from $18,000 to $55,000, with another on hold for a museum."
A 68-million-year-old Triceratops skull discovered in Montana in 2019 sold on opening day at Frieze Masters for £650,000 to a private collector through David Aaron. Salomon Aaron described dinosaur fossils as iconic and undervalued relative to other art categories. Dealers showed works across a wide price spectrum, including small Leloir drawings priced between about £150 and £10,500, of which twenty sold on opening day. Christine Berry exhibited Janice Biala works priced $20,000–$95,000 and sold four paintings by Thursday morning, with another on hold for a museum. Anne Rothenstein sold five paintings priced £40,000–£75,000 to private collectors. Hauser & Wirth publicly reported the only seven-figure deals so far.
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