Hauser & Wirth
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Nov 2, 2026
Margaret CarriganHOST
Gagosian, David Zwirner, and White Cube are all returning.
Margaret CarriganHOST
But Pace, Gladstone, All Mean Rush, and Hauser & Wirth are among those who are out.
Margaret CarriganHOST
Hauser showed some of the priciest works at the first edition.
Margaret CarriganHOST
With state financial backing, the fair is again covering many participation costs, including accommodations for some gallery staff and artists.
Andrew RussethHOST
Katya, you get the story on the website.
Andrew RussethHOST
And a couple dealers really start exiting, right? I loved that by Friday, Hauser & Wirth had essentially emptied their booth, right? There were a couple pictures left.
Katya KazakinaGUEST
Yeah, there were people sending me these pictures.
Katya KazakinaGUEST
I was busy writing the story, but People, everybody started sending me these pictures of the empty wall and I, empty walls.
Naomi ReaGUEST
Also sold well, you know, on the first day there was a number of six-figure sales that were reported.
Naomi ReaGUEST
The biggest sale from that first day of Frieze actually came from Frieze Masters, which was Hauser & Wirth, which sold a floral still life by Jan Bruegel the Elder for, they said, around five million pounds.
Naomi ReaGUEST
And then there were more seven-figure sales from Freesmasters that closed sort of by the end of the fair, although that's not fully reflective of all of the sales as a whole.
Naomi ReaGUEST
I think I totted up the sales that were reported on the first day and the majority were on the lower end, it was under £50,000.
Naomi ReaGUEST
But I think obviously Paris had a much heavier top end.
Naomi ReaGUEST
I think if you're looking to sell expensive art, Paris is still the place that you'd go.
Naomi ReaGUEST
I think the reported sales figures from the first day included two paintings, also Hauser & Wirth, that sold for $10 million, both actually from 1965, one by Georg Baselitz and one by Gerhard Richter.
Naomi ReaGUEST
And I think Gagosian also sold a late de Kooning painting for around eight figures.
L.G. WilliamsNARRATOR
For those unfamiliar with Charles Gaines, born in 1944, he is a so-called American conceptual artist known for photographs, drawings, installations, numerical systems, and especially the use of grids.
L.G. WilliamsNARRATOR
His work has appeared in the Whitney Biennial and the Venice Biennale, and he has been represented by major international galleries, including Hauser & Wirth.
L.G. WilliamsNARRATOR
That standing is precisely what Williams contests.
L.G. WilliamsNARRATOR
The essay argues that Gaines arrived after conceptual art's revolutionary breakthroughs and adopted its outward vocabulary without the transparency, reproducibility, intellectual rigor, or risk that originally gave those strategies their force.
Georgina AdamHOST
From the top end, for example, there was a Richter, which sold for a price in the region of 10.5 million.
Georgina AdamHOST
All of this is Hauser & Wirth's stand.
Georgina AdamHOST
There was a Baselitz they sold as well for 10 million.
Georgina AdamHOST
I had an interesting conversation with Andreas Gegner of Sprut Magas, who absolutely gave me immediately a whole list of works that they had sold.
Matthew NewtonGUEST
And we, we've seen that, and we've even seen some dealers come out and sort of protest.
Matthew NewtonGUEST
There was, uh, one of the biggest galleries in the world, Hauser & Wirth, one of their owners even described it as, uh, doom porn, referring to the art market headlines that were, that were coming out.
Matthew NewtonGUEST
And I think that, you know, there's-- it really cuts both ways, because on the one hand-
Jason ChirogianisHOST
Yeah
Sophie Monahan CoombsGUEST
Um, you know, very kind of well-known, um, galleries such as Gagosian, um, White Cube had some really good sales.
Sophie Monahan CoombsGUEST
Hauser & Wirth had this enormous sale, um, on the first day of the, uh, Bruegel the Elder artwork, the still life that I mentioned earlier.
Sophie Monahan CoombsGUEST
But I think in general, everyone is sort of- Got to grips with the fact that the art market is not what it once was.
Sophie Monahan CoombsGUEST
You don't have people rushing in and just buying, buying, buying.
Dyala NusseibehGUEST
Um, there was a sudden growth of contemporary galleries.
Dyala NusseibehGUEST
I think Hauser & Wirth opened the same year as Frieze in London, um, and Thomas Dane.
Dyala NusseibehGUEST
And then you saw after that this kind of growth in the number of galleries opening in London, but also this wider impact and benefit, restaurants, hotels, um, you know, the creative industry, all really blossomed through that.
Dyala NusseibehGUEST
And I think there are interesting parallels to draw between, you know, now what's happening in Abu Dhabi with, you know, obviously the Louvre opening in 2017 and the Zayed National Museum, now the Guggenheim opening this year, and the fair, Frieze Abu Dhabi, bringing this sense of anticipated growth, and it's kind of a moment where, um, we're thinking about what that looks like, of course, for the region in this kind of, you know, more regionalized, um, sort of landscape that we're in, but also what that looks like for the work that's been coming out of the region, entering global discourse, growing the market through that global integration, having collectors from America, from the UK, coming to Abu Dhabi because of the Frieze network globally.
Kabir JhalaGUEST
These top galleries and even the mid-tier galleries... can have a decent amount of turnover and things might also not be all right in the art market.
Kabir JhalaGUEST
Case in point, you know, at Freeze London today, a lot of the biggest galleries, Gagosian, Pace, Hauser & Wirth, they reported pretty strong sales, you know, of new primary work and then also good secondary market deals.
Kabir JhalaGUEST
That being said, when you have reports of, you know, Pace having a massive downsizing, we're hearing whispers that, of other major galleries also cutting staff and potentially losing artists.
Kabir JhalaGUEST
So clearly, you know, issues of overheads, travel budget, staffing, all these things are still pressing on the business.
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Kabir JhalaGUEST
You know, that Serpentine show a couple of years ago was really their sort of like, well, you have your Richter.
Kabir JhalaGUEST
How about an Albert Erlen at a really, really high price tag? So we're still seeing that market strategy endure.
Kabir JhalaGUEST
Over in Friesmasters, Hauser & Wirth sold a $5 million painting by Peter Bruegel.
Kabir JhalaGUEST
It might seem strange that a gallery that is sort of specialised in, you know, really from the late 19th century on to the very, very contemporary would sell a 16th century Dutch painting.
Andrew RussethHOST
This is such a key point.
Andrew RussethHOST
Galleries had to some degree moved to Chelsea, but it was still not like Hauser & Wirth and Chanel and J.Crew or whatever quite-
Sara VanDerBeekGUEST
Yes
Andrew RussethHOST
... to that degree.
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