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What Sold at Art Basel Miami Beach 2024

Maxwell Rabb
Dec 9, 2024 5:18PM

Installation view of Hauser & Wirth’s booth at Art Basel Miami Beach, 2024. Courtesy of Art Basel.

Art Basel Miami Beach 2024 closed on Sunday at the Miami Beach Convention Center, welcoming more than 75,000 visitors across its five days (down from last year’s reported attendance figure of 79,000). The fair brings to a close a packed Miami Art Week, which featured a slate of glitzy parties, events, and art fairs, including Untitled Art and NADA.

This year’s edition of Art Basel Miami Beach welcomed 286 galleries from 28 countries—up from last year’s 277—and included 34 first-time exhibitors, the largest batch of newcomers in over a decade. South and Central America had a strong showing, with 19 galleries from Brazil alone.

Portrait of Bridget Finn. Courtesy of Art Basel.

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The fair was also the first under the new directorship of the seasoned gallerist Bridget Finn. With a career that has spanned stints at the likes of Anton Kern Gallery and Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Finn co-founded the widely admired Detroit tastemaker Reyes | Finn in 2017. Her depth of experience and fresh perspective set the stage for a new era of the fair.

“Staging a show of this scale, caliber, and expectation is a long and monumental effort,” said Finn. “It is an ecstatic feeling to finally open the doors to our visitors to discover the show after more than a year of deep planning by our galleries and our team. I am extremely proud of the refinements we achieved this year—from the repositioning of Meridians, which has facilitated more opportunities for discovery and dialogue across the contemporary heart of the show, to the roll-out of a new booth size, which allowed us to welcome so many new voices and perspectives in the main sector of the show.”

Nina Surel, installation view in Spinello Projects’s booth at Art Basel Miami Beach, 2024. Photo by Zachary Balber. Courtesy of Spinello Projects.

The last major event in a tetchy year for the art market, Art Basel Miami Beach 2024 yielded a strong depth of sales, albeit with fewer seven- and eight-figure transactions seen in previous editions. Leading the reported sales was Hauser & Wirth, which sold David Hammons’s Untitled (2014) for $4.75 million during the VIP preview on Wednesday. Several galleries also secured seven-digit sales during the art fair’s first VIP day, including Thaddaeus Ropac, David Zwirner, and White Cube. Meanwhile, the City of Miami’s Legacy Purchase Program, now in its fifth year, acquired Nina Surel’s ceramic wall installation, presented by Spinello Projects—one of Artsy’s best booths from the fair.

Here, we round up the key sales reported by galleries at Art Basel Miami Beach 2024.


Top sales at Art Basel Miami Beach 2024

Jeffrey Gibson
I can hear you, 2024
Hauser & Wirth
Rashid Johnson
Soul Painting “Honey”, 2024
Hauser & Wirth

As well as the Hammons sale, Hauser & With reported several seven- and six-figure sales, including:

David Zwirner’s sales were led by a $3.5 million painting by Yayoi Kusama. Other sales reported by the gallery included:

Thaddaeus Ropac’s sales were led by Georg Baselitz’s Dresdner Frauen - Die Elbe (1990/2023), which sold for €2.5 million ($2.64 million). Other sales reported by the gallery included:

  • Robert Rauschenberg’s Everglade (Borealis) (1990) for $2.3 million.
  • Baselitz’s Die Seine, die Seine, die Seine (2023) for €1.2 million ($1.26 million).
  • Sturtevant’s Flag after Jasper Johns (1967) for $1.1 million.
  • Andy Warhol’s Hammer and Sickle (1976) for $750,000.
  • Robert Longo’s Untitled (F-16 American Jet for Ukraine Ascending) (2024) for $650,000.
  • Antony Gormley’s SUSPECT (2024) for £500,000 ($638,000).
  • Martha Jungwirth’s Ohne Titel, aus der Serie “Francisco de Goya, Stillleben mit Rippen und Lammkopf” (2022) for €430,000 ($454,000), Ohne Titel, aus der Serie “Australidelphia” (2020) for €420,000 ($444,000), and Ohne Titel (2022) for €310,000 ($327,000).
  • Daniel Richter’s Mausefalle des Gewissens (2023) for €420,000 ($443,000).
  • David Salle’s New Pastoral, Floral Dress (2024) for $350,000.
  • Tom Sachs’s Portrait de Dora Maar (2024) for $190,000.
  • Other works by Jungwirth, Longo, Joan Snyder, and Erwin Wurm sold for five-figure sums.
David Hammons
Rock Head, 2000
White Cube
Ilana Savdie
Revenge Fantasies, 2024
White Cube

White Cube’s reported sales were led by David Hammons’s Rock Head (2000) for $2.35 million. Other sales reported by the gallery included:

Pace Gallery’s reported sales were led by Sam Gilliam’s Whispering Wind (1972), which sold for $1 million. Other sales reported by the gallery included:

Kasmin’s sales were led by Mark Ryden’s Regina Terra (#179) (2024) for $1.5 million. Other sales reported by the gallery included:

Mennour’s sales were led by Lee Ufan’s Response (2024) for €1 million ($1.05 million). The gallery also reported the following sales:

  • Three works by Anish Kapoor for £675,000, £500,000, and £200,000 apiece ($862,000, $638,000, and $255,000, respectively).
  • Keith Haring’s Untitled (Brasil) (1986) for $650,000.
  • Three works by Ugo Rondinone for €110,000 ($116,000) apiece.
  • Alicja Kwade’s Principium (2023) for $90,000.
  • Dhewadi Hadjab’s Untitled (2024) for €80,000 ($84,000)
  • Francis Picabia’s Sans titre (ca. 1940) for €65,000 ($68,000).
Rob Pruitt
A Month of Sunsets (December 2023), 2024
MASSIMODECARLO

MASSIMODECARLO’s sales were led by a work by Jennifer Guidi for “around” $300,000. Other sales by the gallery included:

Almine Rech’s sales were led by a work by Tom Wesselmann, which sold for a price in the range of $1.25 million–$1.5 million. Other sales reported by the gallery included:

More key sales from Art Basel Miami Beach 2024

Lee Ufan, Response, 2024. © Lee Ufan. Courtesy of Lisson Gallery.

Leiko Ikemura, Peace in Spring, 2020. © Leiko Ikemura. Courtesy of Lisson Gallery.

Lisson Gallery’s reported sales were led by Lee Ufan’s Response (2024) for $850,000. Other sales reported by the gallery included:

Galleria Continua’s sales were led by Carlos Cruz-Diez’s Physichromie 637 (1973) for $695,000. Additional reported sales from the gallery included:

Sayre Gomez
Sim City 2, 2024
Xavier Hufkens

Xavier Hufkens’s sales were led by a painting by Nicolas Party for “approximately” $600,000. The gallery also sold the following:

David Kordansky Gallery’s sales were led by Fred Eversley’s Untitled (cylindrical lens) (2024) for $600,000. Other works sold by the gallery included:

Anne Imhof, Untitled (1pm), 2024. © Anne Imhof. Photo by Jens Ziehe. Courtesy of the artist and Sprüth Magers.

Nara Roesler’s sales were led by Julio Le Parc’s Mobile losange doré (2024) for €375,000 ($396,000). Other sales reported by the gallery included:

Sprüth Magers’s reported sales were led by Richard Artschwager’s Exclamation Point (Yellow) (2001) for $425,000. Other sales reported by the gallery included:

BLUM’s sales were led by a pair of Yoshitomo Nara Untitled works from 2024 for $450,000 apiece. Further sales reported by the gallery included:

Installation view of Lehmann Maupin’s booth at Art Basel Miami Beach, 2024. Courtesy of Lehmann Maupin.

Lehmann Maupin’s sales were led by Teresita Fernández’s Astral Sea 2 (2024) for $375,000. Other works sold by the gallery included:

Installation view of Galerie Lelong & Co.’s booth at Art Basel Miami Beach, 2024. Courtesy of Galerie Lelong & Co.

Galerie Lelong & Co.’s sales were led by Mildred Thompson’s Radiation Explorations (1994) for “approximately” $275,000. Other sales reported by the gallery included:

Further top sales from Art Basel Miami Beach 2024 included the following:

Mai 36 Galerie’s sales were led by H.R. Giger’s Necronom / Alien III (1990–2005) for $1 million. Other sales at the gallery included:


More six-figure sales from Art Basel Miami Beach 2024

Perrotin’s sales were led by Lee Bae’s Issu du feu-27cd (2004) for $175,000–$200,000. The gallery also sold other works, including:

Timothy Taylor’s sales were led by a painting by Hilary Pecis, which sold for $180,000. The gallery also sold:

Other key sales reported by galleries at Art Basel Miami Beach 2024 included the following:


More notable sales from Art Basel Miami Beach 2024

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Maxwell Rabb
Maxwell Rabb is Artsy’s Staff Writer.

Correction: A previous version of this article incorrectly stated some of MASSIMODECARLO‘s sales. This has been updated.