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<\/p>\nAmong the top sales made during the Los Angeles fair\u2019s opening days was Mark Bradford\u2019sShall Rest in Honor There<\/em><\/a>(2023), an abstraction that went for $3.5 million. Though it was the only work in the dealer\u2019s booth to achieve a price above the $1 million mark, it was not the only one by an in-demand artist from the gallery\u2019s roster to see high figures. Works by Henry Taylor, Luchita Hurtado, and Charles Gaines were among the others. Their works sold for prices between $45,000 and $450,000.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n Within the first few hours of the opening day of the Los Angeles fair on Thursday, Gladstone Gallery made multiple sales, according to representatives for the enterprise. One of its top deals included the 1998 photograph\u00a0Untitled<\/a>\u00a0(cowboy)<\/em>\u00a0by Richard Prince. The work sold for $3 million. Also at Gladstone\u2019s booth, a \u00a0bronze, wall-mounted Keith Haring work sold for $500,000. Pace also said it made sales for works by Rosemarie Trockel, Arthur Jafa, Philippe Parreno, Amy Sillman, Jill Mulleady, David Rappeneau, and Shahryar Nashat. These works all sold for prices between $20,000 and $475,000.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n At Pace\u2019s booth, the dealer sold a range of works at prices between $45,000 to $2 million, among them pieces by Adrian Ghenie, Yoshitomo Nara, and Matthew Day Jackson. Paintings by Thomas Nozkowski<\/a> and LA-based Maysha Mohamedi also sold, as did a small-scale edition of\u00a0The Embrace<\/em>\u00a0by Hank Willis Thomas, his controversial public sculpture recently unveiled in Boston that pays homage to Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n On the opening day of Frieze Los Angeles, David Zwirner sold multiple works by gallery artists including Lisa Yuskavage, Micha\u00ebl Borremans, Dana Schutz, Oscar Murillo, and Raymond Pettibon. Among the top works by Schutz\u2019s oil on canvas\u00a0The Encounter<\/em>\u00a0from 2022. Measuring at 108 by 140 inches, the work, depicting two figures wielding weapons and appearing to face-off against a dark brown background, sold for $1.2 million to a museum in Europe. Other sales made at the mega-dealer\u2019s booth include Lisa Yuskavage single-figure painting from 2015 titled\u00a0Sari<\/em>\u00a0for $1 million, also to a European museum, alongside others by Micha\u00ebl Borremans and Oscar Murillo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n New York\u2019s Lehmann Maupin<\/a> reported strong sales on the fair\u2019s first day, selling six works by London-based artist Chantal Joffe. The grouping went for a combined total of \u00a3200,000 ($241,000), with works having been placed with collectors in New York and California, along with a Midwestern museum. Meanwhile, sculptures, paintings, and works on paper by Japanese artist Mr. reportedly sold to trustees of several US-based institutions, including the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami. The sales coincide with the artist\u2019s showcase at the Phoenix Art Museum. The gallery also sold works by Billie Zangewa and Loriel Beltr\u00e1n, who will have an upcoming solo presentation with the gallery in New York this March.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n Some dealers, like the Los Angeles\u2013based David Kordansky, saw big sales with solo presentations by artists on the rise. Chase Hall showed a new body of work that sold out within the first few hours of the fair, going to \u201cmajor\u201d international institutions and collectors, the dealer reported. The sales come just ahead of Hall\u2019s first solo museum show, opening on February 28 at the SCAD Art Museum<\/a>\u00a0in Savannah, Georgia. Though the exhibition will be staged far away from LA, the gallery\u2019s senior director, Kurt Mueller, reported an \u201cincredible response\u201d from institutions and collectors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n Ortuzar Projects and Andrew Kreps Gallery\u2019s joint presentation of paintings and works on paper by Ernie Barnes at Frieze LA<\/a> continued market momentum being felt for the artist right now. During the first hours of the VIP preview, the galleries reporting selling works by Barnes for over $1 million: three paintings for $500,000 each and an additional eight priced between $60,000 and $100,000. Meanwhile, at press time, the galleries, which co-represent Barnes, said that a museum held a reserve on one painting around $1 million. Beyond Frieze, those in LA looking to find see more Barnes can currently do so at the UTA Artist Space.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n![\"View](\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Richard-Prince.jpg?w=800\")
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