If They’re Selling, They’re Not Talking

Bloomberg was more excited by celebrity sightings at Frieze, but even those were somewhat backward looking (Elle MacPherson and Joseph Fiennes,) than art sales:

“People are looking at works, thinking about them and buying them,” Robin Vousden, the London-based director of Gagosian, said after six works sold during the first two hours of Frieze.

Stingel’s 2011 monochrome portrait of the Austrian artist Franz West, who curated the Gagosian booth, sold for a price of more than $500,000.

Antwerp-based Zeno X Gallery: “Interior nr. I,” a 2010 painting by the Belgian Tuymans, was bought by a U.K. collector

Artinfo has a handful of sales from the first day at Frieze and Frame:

Hauser & Wirth: three editions of “Earth Mask II” (2011) by Thomas Houseago, all sold to European collectors for $100,000 apiece. Houseago’s “Hermaphrodite” (2011) sold for $425,000,

Bischoff/Weiss sold two Raphael Zarka videos, priced at £11,300 ($17,813) and £7,000 ($11,034), respectively, to David Walsh‘s Tazmanian Museum of Old and New Art

Los Angeles’s François Ghebaly sold a sculpture by Patrick Jackson to hotel tycoon Andre Balazs for $9,000.

Big Sales Are Sparse at the Frieze Art Fair as Collectors Opt to Socialize and Window Shop (Artinfo)