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Frieze Opens; Art Sells

October 16, 2008 by Marion Maneker

The Master, Judd Tully, catalogues several more sales at Frieze on ArtInfo. They include Subodh Gupta, who has last none of his charm for buyers:

Several reserves were in place for late American pop artist Tom Wesselmann’s Sunset Nude, Yellow Curtain, Yellow Tulip from 2003, at $2.2 million. “It’s much better than I thought,” Lambert’s Emilio Steinberger said of the fair, “but slower than last year.”

Dealers are hoping museums will take up some of the slack. The Tate did, according to Bloomberg:

Tate, the U.K. museum network, spent 125,000 pounds ($215,000) buying six contemporary artworks from London’s Frieze Art Fair a day before its public opening. [ . . . ] The Tate team, with help from two outside curators, bought works including two video projections, a reel-to-reel tape recording, and a piece made of paper clips. Four of the six artists have no works in the collection yet, said Tate Director Nicholas Serota, interviewed at the fair; one is Czech, another Lebanese. Serota said Tate’s aim was to broaden its collection beyond Northwest Europe and North America.

More Sales, New Attitude at Frieze (ArtInfo)

Tate Buys $215,000 in Contemporary Art at London’s Frieze Fair (Bloomberg)

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