Million pound sales and sold out booths at Frieze London and Frieze Masters 2026

Frieze London and Frieze Masters closed on 18 October after five days at The Regent's Park, with both fairs reporting sales from four figures to seven. The 24th edition of Frieze London brought together 176 galleries from 43 countries and regions, while the 14th edition of Frieze Masters had 142 galleries from 33.

Frieze London 2026. Image by Lyndon Douglas. Courtesy of Frieze

Across the two fairs, 95,000 people from 108 countries attended, among them representatives of 426 institutions from 51 countries and regions, a record for the fairs. Attendance from India and China more than doubled on 2025, with growth also recorded from Hong Kong, Korea, the UAE, Brazil, the US, Canada, Germany and France. Galleries reported sales at every level, from Focus booths that cleared within the first hours of opening day to seven figure placements and acquisitions by museums and foundations in Europe, Asia and the US.

The highest price reported at either fair went to Jan Brueghel the Elder's Still Life of Flowers in a Stoneware Vase, an oil on oak panel from around 1607 to 1608, sold by Hauser & Wirth at Frieze Masters on the first day in the region of £5 million.

The biggest sales at Frieze London

David Zwirner placed a new painting by Michaël Borremans for $1.5 million, a Dana Schutz for $900,000, a Lisa Yuskavage for $450,000 and a Portia Zvavahera for $300,000. New paintings by Sasha Gordon at $400,000 and Yu Nishimura at $170,000 went to museums in Europe and Asia.

David Zwirner, Frieze London 2026. Image by Linda Nylind. Courtesy of Frieze

Hauser & Wirth sold Avery Singer's Solver (v.3) for $800,000 and George Condo's Figure Composition for $600,000, both made this year. Xavier Hufkens placed a historic work on paper by Richard Serra for $750,000, a suite of works on paper by Louise Bourgeois for $400,000 and a small Bourgeois sculpture for $215,000.

Hauser & Wirth, Frieze London 2026. Image by Linda Nylind. Courtesy of Frieze

Thaddaeus Ropac sold Martha Jungwirth's Untitled (Berggasse 19) for €560,000, Antony Gormley's Aside for £500,000, a new Adrian Ghenie painting for €380,000 and Megan Rooney's Radio Silence for £280,000. It also placed a 1963 terracotta by the Italian sculptor Leoncillo for €300,000.

White Cube, Frieze London 2026. Image by Linda Nylind. Courtesy of Frieze

White Cube sold 11 works by Ilana Savdie, including The Harbingers, which went to a museum for $325,000, and Syncitia No. 2 for $260,000, alongside Gabriel Orozco's Lion Fish for $300,000. Gagosian gave its booth to a solo presentation of Albert Oehlen paintings, and Pace sold out an entire booth of new paintings by Marina Perez Simão. Pilar Corrias placed works with four institutions across Europe, the US and Asia.

Gagosian, Frieze London 2026. Image by Linda Nylind. Courtesy of Frieze

Sprüth Magers sold Kara Walker's The Second Thanksgiving for $400,000 to a US collection, with further works by Henni Alftan, Thomas Demand and Barbara Kruger going to collections in Scandinavia, continental Europe and the UK.

Karma sold Gertrude Abercrombie's Little Silo for $350,000 and William Turnbull's Siren for $250,000, and sold out its paintings by Jacob Littlejohn in his London market debut, one of them to an institutional collection. GRIMM sold Caroline Walker's Lifeguard for £175,000 and a new Louise Giovanelli painting to a US collection for £120,000. The gallery also placed a work by Hettie Inniss with the Roberts Art Foundation ahead of her residency there, and two paintings by Anna Ruth with a West Asian foundation.

The Approach, Frieze London 2026. Image by Linda Nylind. Courtesy of Frieze

Timothy Taylor placed new paintings by Sean Landers between $120,000 and $180,000 with American and British collectors, and Lehmann Maupin sold a new McArthur Binion for $150,000. Kukje Gallery reported sales across generations of Korean artists, including Kyungah Ham's embroideries and every Han Youngsoo photograph on the booth. Johyun Gallery placed Lee Bae's Issu du feu-au13 for $215,000, alongside works by four artists shown at Frieze London for the first time.

Long standing London galleries

Maureen Paley placed works by Wolfgang Tillmans, Merlin James, Mary Stephenson, Anne Hardy, Lawrence Abu Hamdan and Hannah Starkey. The Approach sold works by every artist in its booth, including John Stezaker, Mike Silva, Magali Reus and Turner Prize nominee Kira Freije. Alison Jacques reported sales to both longstanding and new collectors, and Herald St placed new works by Naotaka Hiro, Francis Offman, Sang Woo Kim and Poppy Jones.

Carl Freedman, Frieze London 2026. Image by Linda Nylind. Courtesy of Frieze

Pippy Houldsworth Gallery sold two paintings by Shaqúelle Whyte for £50,000 each and Sofía Bassi's La paz será de todos for $85,000. Carl Freedman Gallery, reporting one of its strongest fairs to date, placed more than 20 works by Studio Lenca, one of them with a major US institution, alongside works by recent Margate School graduates IyunOla Sanyaolu and Olivia Guillot. Richard Saltoun Gallery placed multiple works by Helen Chadwick between £10,000 and £100,000.

Entrance booths and returning galleries

The booths by the entrance, once largely reserved for established galleries, now give a wider range of exhibitors the chance to show solo presentations to collectors arriving at the fair. Fortes D'Aloia & Gabriel sold out its booth of Márcia Falcão paintings on opening day, while Berthold Pott sold three sculptures by Agata Ingarden to a private museum in Southeast Asia.

Pilar Corrias, Frieze London 2026. Image by Linda Nylind. Courtesy of Frieze

Pilar Corrias, back after two years away, sold out its presentation of Rachel Rose, Sholto Blissett and Georg Wilson by the close of the first day. Casa Triângulo, also returning after a few years, sold out its Fernanda Galvão presentation. First time exhibitor Carvalho placed Rachel Mica Weiss's full series of fibre works with UK and European collectors within the opening hours.

Former Focus participants now exhibiting in the main section also did well. Union Pacific sold out its presentation of Niklas Asker, Apollinaria Broche, Sebastián Espejo, Aya Higuchi, Nour Jaouda and Oliver Osborne. The Sunday Painter sold two large Emily Kraus paintings for £45,000 each, alongside works by Harminder Judge at up to £26,000, Patrick H Jones, Tomas Harker and Thiang Uk. Edel Assanti, which first presented Marcin Dudek in Focus in 2022, returned with a reconstruction of the artist's childhood bedroom in Kraków and placed paintings by Thornton Dial between $160,000 and $230,000.

Focus

Gianni Manhattan, a. SQUIRE and Harlesden High Street all reported sold out booths on opening day. Bukia Vakhania sold out its presentation of paintings by Tamo Jugeli at $40,000 each, and Xxijra Hii sold out its Yuli Serfaty presentation and secured new commissions to be made after the fair.

Xxjira Hi, Frieze London 2026. Image by Linda Nylind. Courtesy of Frieze

diez sold Jessica Wilson's Sweet Nothing to Centraal Museum, Utrecht, the artist's first work to enter a museum collection. Niru Ratnam placed four works by Laila Majid, two with an international institutional collection and two with a major UK corporate collection. First time exhibitor Chemould CoLab placed three large textile works by Jayeeta Chatterjee between $13,000 and $26,000, with the largest, The Infinite Weft, going to an Indian institution.

diez, Frieze London 2026. Image by Linda Nylind. Courtesy of Frieze

Ehrlich Steinberg sold its Ella Fleck presentation to a European family collection for £14,000, made up of £12,000 for the floor sculpture and £2,000 for the three monitor custom programmed piece. Eli Kerr sold almost all of its Simon S. Belleau presentation between £4,000 and £12,000. Focus is advised by Cédric Fauq, Joumana Asseily and Freddie Powell, and supported by Stone Island, which provides a bursary for every participating gallery.

Ehrlich Steinberg, Frieze London 2026. Photo by Linda Nylind. Courtesy of Frieze

Artist-to-Artist

Alice Amati and Goodman Gallery both sold out, with presentations of Paul Robas and Unathi Mkonto. Mkonto's booth sold to collectors from the UK, Europe, North America and West Asia before he won the £10,000 Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation Prize, which includes a solo commission at the Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation in 2027.

Unathi Mkonto, Goodman Gallery, wins Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation Prize. Photo Aaron Hettey. Courtesy of Frieze

Bolanle Contemporary sold all of its paintings and drawings by Eilen Itzel do Espírito Santo, with prices reaching £30,000. Two of them were institutional acquisitions, one by an American institution and one by a British institution.

Bolanle Contemporary, Frieze London 2026. Image by Linda Nylind. Courtesy of Frieze

The Code Universe and the wider fair

In The Code Universe, curated by Carol Yinghua Lu, Valentine won the Frieze London Galleries Stand Prize for its presentation of the late Balinese artist Oototol. Valentine is a collaboration between the galleries ROH, Misako & Rosen and LC Queisser, and the jury of Elvira Dyangani Ose, Krist Gruijthuijsen and Monika Bayer-Wermuth praised its reintroduction of Oototol's work. Special mentions went to Soft Opening and 1 Mira Madrid/2 Mira Archiv. acb Gallery presented Selma Selman, and Nonfrasa placed six works by Nyoman Darmawan with collectors from the UK and Indonesia.

Nonfrasa, Frieze London 2026. Image by Linda Nylind. Courtesy of Frieze

Elsewhere, Vadehra Art Gallery sold out, with paintings by Atul Dodiya, Biraaj Dodiya, Sudhir Patwardhan and Zaam Arif going to collectors in Los Angeles, Copenhagen and London, and Cob sold out twice. Athr sold Ahmed Mater's Gun Gas for around £40,000, and Fort Gansevoort placed Myrlande Constant's Lasirène Diamant with a European institution for around $175,000. Southern Guild sold eight works by six artists on the opening day, including Zanele Muholi's Zwelibanzi for $120,000.

Cecilia Brunson Projects placed works by Dignora Pastorello with institutions across the Americas and Singapore and sold a work by Silät with Claudia Alarcón for $60,000. Galerie Nordenhake placed Iñaki Bonillas with a private museum in Miami. Sullivan+Strumpf sold five paintings by Yvette Coppersmith between £5,000 and £10,000 and placed several paintings by Kaye Brown between £4,000 and £9,000. The gallery also sold eight photographs by Atong Atem. Gianni Manhattan sold exclusively to new clients, and most of Cristea Roberts Gallery's sales went to new collectors.

Frieze Masters

Alongside the Brueghel, Waddington Custot sold Jean Dubuffet's Le malentendu 23 décembre 1976 for £950,000, with two works by Eduardo Chillida at £280,000 and £140,000. Hauser & Wirth placed Francis Picabia's Transparence, visage de femme for a high six figure price.

Victoria Miro & David Zwirner, Frieze Masters 2026. Image by Hugo Glendinning. Courtesy of Frieze

In Queering Modernism, developed by Anke Kempkes, David Zwirner and Victoria Miro sold four significant Alice Neel paintings for $1.6 to $1.8 million each, one of them to a major museum. Ab-Anbar sold works by Bahman Mohassess to a London foundation and to a photography museum with branches in Europe and Asia, including a painting at approximately $170,000 and 10 assemblages between $15,000 and $40,000. Agnews placed a Lotte Laserstein portrait with an American private collection and a painting by Henry Scott Tuke.

Ab Anbar Gallery, Frieze Masters 2026. Image by Hugo Glendinning. Courtesy of Frieze

Carlton Rochell Asian Art sold a 2nd century Kushan sandstone Avalokiteshvara from Mathura for over $1 million and a 15th century Tibetan Arya Manjushri for close to $1 million. Piano Nobile placed a major Henry Moore in the region of £1 million, a Barbara Hepworth painting for around £250,000 and a Vanessa Bell portrait for around £150,000. Vito Schnabel Gallery sold George Condo's Call Me Now for $925,000, an early Ai Weiwei, Untitled, 1983 to 1985, for €450,000 and Ron Gorchov's Tarzan for $400,000. Osborne Samuel placed more than ten works, each at six figures, with collectors in the UK, Hong Kong, Dubai and Zurich.

Tomasso, Frieze Masters 2026. Image by Hugo Glendinnig. Courtesy of Frieze

In antiquities, Tomasso sold an ancient Roman mosaic top incorporating flooring from Hadrian's Villa in the region of £200,000 and a Roman imperial porphyry charger for around £125,000. Rupert Wace placed an Egyptian figure of Ptah for a six figure sum, and Charles Ede sold an Egyptian sarcophagus cover from the late Dynastic to early Ptolemaic Periods. Among Old Masters, Kunstkammer Georg Laue sold a mother of pearl still life by Dirck van Rijswijck to a London collector for a six figure sum, and Colnaghi placed Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's Caricature of a Man in Profile.

In 20th century art, Colnaghi also placed Leonor Fini's mask design sketches and her Self-portrait with cats. Marc Selwyn Fine Art placed eight pieces from its solo Lee Bontecou presentation. Daniel Katz Gallery sold David Bomberg's 1947 painting of St Ives to an international collector, and Schoelkopf Gallery sold an Alfred Maurer still life between $140,000 and $200,000. Bastian sold Max Pechstein's Stillleben mit Pfeife for around €700,000 and Renoir's Femme assise dans un paysage for around €500,000, and Jahn und Jahn placed a 1960s Dan Flavin for around €350,000.

Colnaghi, Frieze Masters 2026. Image by Hugo Glendinning. Courtesy of Frieze

Miles McEnery Gallery sold out its Wolf Kahn presentation. Berry Campbell sold works by Mary Abbott and Edith Schloss from its presentation of the Women of the 8th Street Club. Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert placed early 1990s Rachel Whiteread sculptures for up to £60,000, and Patrick Bourne & Co. placed works including Euan Uglow's Head of Christine with museum and private collections. First time exhibitor Andrew Edlin Gallery sold an early 1990s Beverly Buchanan shack to a museum board president, and the work will enter that museum's collection. In textiles, Gallery Moshe Tabibnia sold a 17th century Kirman carpet, Jacqueline Simcox placed four ivory silk satin panels for over £100,000 within the first two hours of preview day, and Shibunkaku sold a Japanese ink folding screen.

South Asian art did well at both fairs, with a world record for Biren De at Aina Gallery, 10 opening day sales at DAG and strong institutional and private sales for Prahlad Bubbar.

In Spotlight, curated by Devika Singh and Sofia Gotti, Richard Saltoun Gallery's presentation of Manina resulted in two museum acquisitions, with prices up to £150,000. Tafeta sold 12 sculptures, including one to a US institution, and Each Modern placed seven vintage photographs by Lang JingShan. First time exhibitors Alisan Fine Arts and Akar Prakar both reported sales, with Alisan Fine Arts placing two Fong Chung-Ray works with new private collectors at £45,000 each and Akar Prakar confirming three works. Maruani Mercier placed a 1958 George Rickey with MARe, Bucharest, and Lyndsey Ingram placed two Lee Miller works with an American institution.

Tafeta, Frieze Masters, 2026. Image credit MTotoe. Courtesy of FLO London.

In Reflections, curated by Abby Bangser and drawing on Casa Luis Barragán and The Cosmic House, Masa Galería sold Ana Pellicer's bust from Gates of Hell, and Erskine, Hall & Coe sold a major Ken Price in the first hour, along with works by Gwyn Hanssen Piggot at £35,000 to £40,000 and Gordon Baldwin at £8,500. Offer Waterman reported sales including early modern works by Harold Gilman and ceramics by Ruth Duckworth and Lucie Rie.

Acquisitions and prizes

The Frieze Tate Fund acquired Michaela Yearwood-Dan's Peace Unknown from Hauser & Wirth at Frieze London and Luis Fernando Zapata's Barge from a joint presentation by Galería Elvira Moreno and Alonso Garcés Galería at Frieze Masters.

Two new funds launched this year. The Dasha Shenkman Focus Fund, facilitated by the Contemporary Art Society, acquired a painting, a lightbox and a work on paper by Okiki Akinfe from Ginny on Frederick for Abbot Hall, Kendal. The WAC x FAMM Fund, created by The Women's Art Collection and Female Artists of the Mougins Museum as part of WAC's 40th anniversary, acquired Moumita Basak's Dualities from Richard Saltoun Gallery, Atong Atem's Maria of Mars from Sullivan+Strumpf and IyunOla Sanyaolu's Labalálá from Carl Freedman Gallery, each artist's first acquisition by a UK public collection.

Contemporary Art Society's Acquisition Funds Announcement at Frieze London 2026. Photo by Aaron Hettey. Courtesy of Frieze

The Contemporary Art Society's Collections Fund at Frieze, marking its tenth anniversary, acquired Karimah Ashadu's Machine Boys from Sadie Coles HQ, Gala Porras-Kim's 1 Drawer C.30.10 with 16 Ceremonial and Votive Cakes, Breads, Biscuits, and Moulds at Pitt Rivers Museum from Sprüth Magers, and Silät & Claudia Alarcón's La ruta nueva, N'äyij ta neky'e (The New Route) from Proyectos Ultravioleta for The Whitworth, Manchester.

The Arts Council Collection Frieze Acquisition Fund bought works by Hannah Quinlan & Rosie Hastings from Arcadia Missa, Laurie Smith from Galeria Wschód, Oliver Osborne from Union Pacific and Armando D. Cosmos from Phillida Reid. The Spirit Now London Acquisition Prize went to Annette Messager for Mes Voeux (avec effusion) and Stanislava Pinchuk for Each Apparition, Searches for an Eye, both to be donated to the Photography Centre at V&A South Kensington.

Ella Fleck, presented by Ehrlich Steinberg in Focus, received the Camden Art Centre Emerging Artist Award, with her exhibition scheduled for 2028. Myriam Mihindou and Phillida Reid received the fourth Fluxus-CPGA Prize, a £15,000 award shared equally between artist and gallery.

Both fairs are presented with Global Lead Partner Deutsche Bank, in its 23rd year of partnership with Frieze, which showed Studio Lenca's installation Ojalá in its lounges at both fairs.

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