A 68-million-year-old Triceratops skull was among the opening day sales at Frieze Masters on Wednesday. The skull, discovered in Montana in 2019, was priced at \u00a3650,000 with David Aaron and sold to a new client, a private collector.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve had a strong opening to the fair including the sale of a sub-adult Triceratops skull on opening night, among other pieces from our exhibition,\u201d says Salomon Aaron, a director at David Aaron. \u201cDinosaur fossils are iconic and exceptional examples of this high quality are still grossly undervalued relative to other art categories.\u201d<\/p>\n
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 \u00a3150 and \u00a310,500. Twenty sold on opening day, with more sales yesterday after the gallery rehung.<\/p>\n
The New York-based dealer Christine Berry, co-owner of Berry Campbell, observes that the key in today\u2019s selective market is \u201cto think about price point, good paintings for good prices\u2026 we have to keep things moving\u201d. Exhibiting in the fair\u2019s 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. \u201cThis is our third year [at Frieze Masters], but it\u2019s our best yet,\u201d Berry says.<\/p>\n
Another painter, Anne Rothenstein, is the subject of a solo show with Stephen Friedman Gallery. Her paintings also proved popular, with five selling to private collectors from Europe and the US, priced from \u00a340,000 to \u00a375,000.<\/p>\n
Hauser & Wirth has so far publicly reported the only seven-figure deals at Frieze Masters. One of the most valuable works announced before the event\u2014Hercules as a Gladiator by Peter Paul Rubens, priced at \u20ac7.5m with Salomon Lilian\u2014had not sold at the time of writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 68-million-year-old Triceratops skull was among the opening day sales at Frieze Masters on Wednesday. The skull, discovered…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[365,362,363,364,366,18,117,75542,78334,19,17,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-130283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-frieze-london-2025","16":"tag-frieze-masters","17":"tag-ie","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-london"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}