Attendees report that:

• Van de Weghe Sold a Twombly work on paper from 1964 for $400 000

Scott Reyburn went back to FIAC for more sales reports and to take the temperature of the fair:

• They were among 73,543 visitors to Paris’s FIAC. The figure released yesterday beat some 70,000 reported at Frieze the week before. “They’re now comparable in quality and newness,” Matthew Armstrong, curator of the Lightyear Capital art collection in New York, said in an interview. “FIAC is getting better, Frieze is getting a bit more predictable.”

Waddington Custot: placed a Jean Dubuffet sculpture [produced after the artist’s death in collaboration with Pace Gallery] outside the Petit Palais, opposite FIAC. It sold for about $6 million just before the fair. Further sales of works by artists such as Picasso and Pierre Soulages saw Waddington Custot take about $9 million at FIAC, according to gallery founder Leslie Waddington.

Pace Gallery: sold more by value at FIAC, in the Grand Palais, than during the previous week at Frieze in London’s Regent’s Park. The 2011 Kiki Smith colored bronze sculpture “Harmonies II,” priced at $200,000, was among the gallery’s sales.

Ramiken Crucible: sold all its Gavin Kenyon pieces within hours of the opening.Francois Odermatt snapped up a 2013 totemic dyed-plaster-and-fur sculpture by the 33-year-old Kenyon, priced at $12,000.

Dickinson: sold the 1969 painting “Shirt Collar 14 ½” by the Italian Arte Povera artist Domenico Gnoli, priced at 2.5 million pounds ($4 million).

Natalie Portman Browses FIAC; $6 million Dancer Sculpture Sells (Bloomberg)
Scott Reyburn covers FIAC straight out of the gate:

• “I find it necessary to do both,” said the New York-based art adviser Heather Flow. “Things happen more quickly in London, but the works are much more critically grounded here in Paris.”

Yvon Lambert: An unidentified Turkish collector bought at $250,000 wrecked Ferrari Dino.

Vedovi: sold Basquiat’s 1984 “O.M.R.A.V.S.,” showing a lone black figure among electricity pylons on a plain white background fort less than $5m.

Galerie Chantal Crousel had a 2013 white and blue inkjet painting by Guyton on its stand. It had been presold to a collector who is donating it to the Belvedere Museum in Vienna. The price was $350,000.

David Zwirner sold Murillo’s “0 + X = 145” for $120,000 for a collector who’d reserved the painting before the fair. The gallery also found buyers for Luc Tuymans’s 2013 painting “Cold Shoulder” priced at $1.2 million and a unique Thomas Schutte bronze, “Bronzefrau Nr. 13,” for 2.5 million euros.

Neuger-Riemschneider: Ai Weiwei’s “Iron Tree,” a 2013 sculpture. One sculpture from the edition sold to a German collector during the first few hours of the preview. The asking figure was about 1 million euros ($1.38 million), dealers said.

Wrecked Ferrari Sells for $250,000, Basquiat $5 Million (Bloomberg)

• Emmanuel Perrotin also sold Bharti Kher‘s “Acidic Landscape, Boiling Water” (2011) for €135,000 ($186,000) and an oversize string of pearls in murano glass by Jean-Michel Othoniel for €80,000 ($110,000)
• Karsten Greve: Georgia Russell between €6,000 and €20,000 ($8,300-27,500); a large Louise Bourgeois edition at €270,000 ($370,000). Another work went for €1 million ($1.4 million), and while representatives declined to say which one, the process of elimination suggests it was Cy Twombly‘s sizable “Untitled (Gaeta)” from 2004.
• Yvon Lambert: a Mircea Cantor sold for €60,000 ($82,500). A Bill Viola video “The Lovers” (2005) sold for €325,000 ($447,000). Loris Gréaud works sold between €45,000 ($62,000) and €85,000 ($117,000).
• Contemporary Fine Arts sold two Marcel Eichner paintings at €18,500 and €19,500 ($25,500 and $26,800).
• Simon Lee: Michelangelo Pistoletto autoportrait-mirror at €180,000 ($247,000) and a 2011 George Condo painting for $275,000 dollars.
• Xavier Hufkens took a reserve on a gigantic Thomas Houseago spoon, for €250,000 ($344,000).

Artnet adds to the pile off FIAC sales:

•  Blum + Poe: Julian Hoeber sold at $40,000. Paintings by Zhang Huan priced at $200,000 each.
•  Galerie Frank Elbaz, three abstractions by Bernard Piffaretti at prices ranging from €7,000 to €29,000
•  Cherry and Martin: photoworks of Robert Heinecken, selling the largest example to a European collector for something like $120,000.

Georgina Adam has clutch of sales from FIAC in her Financial Times column:

• Laurent Godin: a wall sculpture made of industrial waste by Peter Buggenhout, which sold to an Israeli buyer for €30,000
• Nathalie Vallois: Pilar Albarracín’s “Untitled” (2010), a stuffed donkey seated on a pile of books for €60,000
• Cheim & Read: found a Saudi Arabian buyer for a set of 24 Louise Bourgeois drawings at $1m and sold a Chantal Joffe portrait for $75,000 to a South African buyer
• Catherine Bastide: Valerie Snobeck’s mirror piece, “Hinge” (2011) for $5,000.
• Plan B: Adrian Ghenie, “Dr Joseph” (2011), was sold for €30,000

Salon Zurcher

• Zürcher: a painting by the British artist Dan Hays, “American Night” (2009, €32,000) and a silver and red geometrical abstract by Brian Belott (€7,500).
• Horton Gallery: sold a colourful abstracted townscape by Keltie Ferris for €3,700.

The Art Market: Art de Triomphe (Financial Times)

The New York Times says that “68,000 people had visited the Grand Palais for a 6 percent increase in attendance over last year” about FIAC before putting together a few sales reports of its own:

Jeanne Bucher/Jaeger Bucher: Nicolas de Staël sold quickly for 2 million euros (about $2.7 million) each

Nathalie Vallois:  two different-colored copies of “The Ballerina,” a sculpture of a falling Degas-like dancer doused in bright paint by the American artist Richard Jackson, which she said sold to European collectors for $95,000 each.

Bureau:  a number of works on the first day, including an empty wooden picture frame by Esther Kläs, which went for an undisclosed sum, and photographs of books and text by Erica Baum, priced between $2,500 and $3,500.

Euro Flails But Art Fair Flourishes (New York Times)