{"id":1986421,"date":"2026-06-11T20:01:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T17:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1986421"},"modified":"2026-06-11T20:01:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T17:01:45","slug":"art-basel-2026-the-top-artworks-galleries-are-bringing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1986421","title":{"rendered":"Art Basel 2026: The Top Artworks Galleries Are Bringing"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\tIt\u2019s been a whirlwind 2026 already. The year kicked off with a bang at Art Basel Qatar and barrelled forward into a spring marked by a much-talked-about Venice Biennale, a jam-packed week of fairs in New York, and a blockbuster series of sales at the auction houses. For the indefatigable collectors, dealers, and\u2014yes\u2014journalists that constitute the art world, there\u2019s one more marquee event before summer takes hold: Art Basel\u2019s flagship fair in the otherwise tranquil Swiss canton of Basel.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe Swiss edition of Art Basel still carries a reputation for presenting the most museum-quality work, even if that reputation has waned somewhat as fairs in Paris, and now the the Gulf, take hold. This year, the fair introduced Basel Exclusive, a new opt-in program in which exhibitors agree to withhold at least one top work from the pre-fair PDFs and previews, in the hopes of generating some you-had-to-be-there-to-see-it buzz. Of the 240 exhibitors in the main galleries section, 193 have opted in to the initiative, according to the fair.<\/p>\n
\n\tThus, there are bound to be some big-ticket artworks missing in our preview. Nevertheless, with a focus on art dealers with reputations for bringing the freshest (and highest-priced) secondary market works, here\u2019s some of what will be hanging on the walls in Basel.<\/p>\n
\n\tParis\u2019s Galerie 1900-2000, known for sourcing top-notch Dada and Surrealism, will bring works priced from as low as $5,000 up to $600,000 for a canvas by Francis Picabia. On offer are works by canonical figures such as Andr\u00e9 Breton, Leonora Carrington, Jean Dubuffet, Marcel Duchamp, Hannah H\u00f6ch, Man Ray, and Roberto Matta. Also on offer will be works from later decades by artists like William Copley and On Kawara.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI hope Basel Exclusive works, because it\u2019s a very good thing,\u201d gallery principal David Fleiss told ARTnews<\/em>. \u201cEven if they do come to fairs, people don\u2019t necessarily visit every booth because they feel they\u2019ve seen everything in previews. I\u2019ve been on fair selection committees for years. We need to bring people back into fairs. I\u2019m keeping four important works out of my previews.\u201d He added that it might take time for the initiative\u2019s impact to be seen, saying, \u201cI think it will take time for people to understand that you have to be there.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tSpeaking more broadly, Fleiss said, \u201cI think the market is quite good,\u201d though he noted that his fellow dealers who showed at fairs like TEFAF New York last month found themselves in competition with major auctions. \u201cPeople were distracted. That\u2019s one of the big strengths of Basel: there are no competing auctions. People come for the fair, not for something else. So I\u2019m quite positive about the market in Basel.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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Gladstone<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: \u00a92026 Robert Rauschenberg Foundation\/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York\/Courtesy Gladstone\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\tThe gallery shared a 92-page PDF with ARTnews<\/em>, outlining works by some three dozen artists it will bring to the fair, including Matthew Barney, Cecily Brown, George Condo, Keith Haring, Arthur Jafa, Shirin Neshat, Amy Sillman, and Carrie Mae Weems. Among them is a 10-foot-square Robert Rauschenberg work combining silkscreen ink, acrylic paint, fabric and graphite on canvas; Awn \/ ROCI MEXICO <\/em>(1985) comes from a series that debuted at the Museo Rufino Tamayo in Mexico City in 1985. Also likely to make a splash is a 1984 Keith Haring, Untitled (May 29, 1984)<\/em>, a nearly eight-foot-square, partly fluorescent painting produced for a show at Milan\u2019s Salvatore Ala Galery in 1985 and whose packed multifigure composition draws on Milan\u2019s nightclub scene. The gallery declined to reveal prices.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cThe market is actually quite good,\u201d gallery partner Max Falkenstein told ARTnews<\/em>. \u201cIt\u2019s been much better since last September than anybody anticipated. I\u2019m sure it\u2019s different for smaller galleries but for us, since February or March it\u2019s been excellent. In general, across the board, art fairs have been very strong, even in the last year. I feel quite optimistic.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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White Cube<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: \u00a92026 Georg Baselitz\/Courtesy White Cube\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\tWhite Cube, with locations in London, Hong Kong, Paris, New York, and Seoul, will offer works by artists including Michael Armitage, Georg Baselitz,\u00a0Antony Gormley, Richard Hunt, Gabriel Orozco, Isamu Noguchi, and Howardena Pindell. The gallery will also support presentations of Tracey Emin and Theaster Gates in the Unlimited section.<\/p>\n
\n\tOn Wednesday the gallery opened \u201cBack Again,\u201d a Baselitz exhibition at its Bermondsey, London showroom. To Basel, the gallery will bring an early canvas by the artist, who died in April. The painting, Ein zerrissener Hund, aufw\u00e4rts (A Torn Dog, Upwards),<\/em> from 1968, is tagged at $2.8 million. It last sold at Christie\u2019s London in 2014 for $1.6 million, above estimate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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Thaddaeus Ropac<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: \u00a92026 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. \/ Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York and Bildrecht, Wien\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\t\u201cOn the heels of the New York auctions, the market at Art Basel will be strong,\u201d dealer Thaddaeus Ropac predicted. \u201cThere is solid demand. Not many of the great American collectors are coming to Basel, which has been the case for a while, but all the European collectors will be there, as well as the Latin American collectors and even those from the Middle East. Basel is still one of our most successful fairs and the same will be true this year.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tAmong the highlights in Ropac\u2019s stand will be a six-foot-square Warhol, Statue of Liberty <\/em>from 1986. \u201cWe haven\u2019t seen one in the market for a long time,\u201d said the dealer. It will be priced in the $5 million range. Ropac got the piece at Sotheby\u2019s New York in 2020 for $3 million; it had last come to auction at Christie\u2019s New York in 2016, when it fetched $3.7 million. It had previously sold, both times for about a half-million, at Phillips, de Pury & Luxembourg New York in 2002 and at Sotheby\u2019s New York in 1999.<\/p>\n
\n\tA Marcel Duchamp sculpture, Tr\u00e9buchet <\/em>(a 1964 replica of a lost 1917 original), a readymade from a coat rack, is priced around $3 million. This year, Duchamp has been top of mind for many galleries as the artist is the subject of a retrospective at New York\u2019s Museum of Modern Art and features in the Venice Biennale. He\u2019s also offering a Pierre Soulages for \u20ac2.8 million ($3.3 million) and Alex Katz\u2019s painting Larry No. 1 <\/em>(1974), priced at $1.6 million. In the Unlimited sector, he will show an Oskar Schlemmer sculpture unseen in many years, priced at $1.6 million Swiss francs ($2 million).\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s an interesting experiment,\u201d said the dealer of Basel Exclusive. \u201cThere\u2019s the question of whether at 11 a.m. you have a significant number of important collectors coming all at one time if you\u2019ll have enough time with each speaking about the artist or the provenance of an important secondary market piece. When you can share information in advance there\u2019s the opportunity to do this and even speak several times before seeing the work in person, so collectors can have time to reflect. We put about five important works into this section and collectors have responded positively so far.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
\n\tNew York\u2019s Berry Campbell will be exhibiting at the Swiss edition of the fair for the first time in June. For its debut, the gallery is bringing a star-studded lineup, including a 1968 painting by Lynne Drexler,\u00a0Eventide<\/em>, priced at $975,000, and Elaine de Kooning\u2019s 1963 portrait of former\u00a0ARTnews<\/em> executive\u00a0editor Thomas B. Hess, for $465,000.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe de Kooning offering is something a preview for the gallery\u2019s upcoming solo exhibition by the artist set to open October 29. The show, her first since a retrospective at the Smithsonian American Art Museum\u2019s in 2015, will survey the full breadth of her 40-year career, bringing together early abstractions, portraits of figures like John F. Kennedy, and more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
\n\tAs revealed in the\u00a0Financial Times<\/em>\u00a0on Monday, Hauser & Wirth is bringing Gerhard Richter\u2019s 2015 abstract painting\u00a0Abstraktes Bild (940-7)<\/em>. Marian Goodman showed the work in her gallery when it was fresh from Richter\u2019s studio and sold it to Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Lalibert\u00e9. Lalibert\u00e9 sold it in June 2021 at Phillips Hong Kong for a within-estimate HK$95 million ($12 million). Hauser & Wirth has not revealed the price for the work at the fair. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
\n\tMilan\u2019s Cardi Gallery is bringing a 1926 de Chirico painting,\u00a0Les Muses du Foyer<\/em>, from the beginning of his Neoclassical period, priced in the range of $4.5 million, as well as a 1930 still life by Fernand L\u00e9ger,\u00a0La Feuille Jaune (La Toupie)<\/em>, in the range of $3 million. The gallery also plans to bring works by several postwar artists aligned with Spazialismo, Arte Povera, Minimalism, and Transavanguardia, including Carla Accardi,\u00a0Vincenzo Agnetti,\u00a0Alighiero Boetti,\u00a0Dan Flavin,\u00a0Donald Judd,\u00a0Mimmo Rotella,\u00a0and\u00a0Mario Schifano.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
\n\tThe centerpiece of Gagosian\u2019s booth at Art Basel will be a monumental bronze by Henry Moore,\u00a0Large Four Piece Reclining Figure<\/em>, 1972\u201373. <\/p>\n
\n\tCreated at the height of Moore\u2019s late career, the work represents a synthesis of the artist\u2019s lifelong exploration of the reclining form, uniting scale, landscape, fragmentation, and the human figure. Measuring 78\u00be \u00d7 158\u00bc \u00d7 71\u215d inches, it will have a commanding presence at the fair. Gagosian declined to comment on price, but all of Moore\u2019s top ten auction results have been achieved by reclining figure sculptures, with one work reaching $32.7 million at Christie\u2019s in March.<\/p>\n
\n\tGagosian has a long history with Moore, having presented numerous shows of the artist since 1994 in New York, London, Paris, and Athens. This year also marks the 40th anniversary of Moore\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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Pace<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: \u00a9 Calder Foundation, New York\/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\tFor Pace\u2019s presentation at Basel, the gallery is bringing works by Agnes Martin, Louise Nevelson, Jean Dubuffet, Alexander Calder, Donald Judd, and more. The highest value piece in a preview PDF reviewed by ARTnews<\/em> is a 1976 Calder sculpture, titled White Ordinary, <\/em>priced at $12.5 million.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe Dubuffet work, a large-scale 1971 acrylic titled Echec \u00e0 l\u2019\u00eatre<\/em>, is priced around $2.8 million. <\/em>It last sold in February 2025 at Sotheby\u2019s New York at its Contemporary Curated sale for $1.54 million with fees, from the collection of architect John Portman.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe Martin painting, Untitled #7<\/em> from 1984, is priced at $7.5 million. It sold most recently at Christie\u2019s New York in 2018 for $5.7 million with fees. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
\n\tNew York\u2013based Helly Nahmad Gallery is well-known for selling work by Impressionist and modern masters. Its offering for this year\u2019s edition of Art Basel has many of the usual suspects: Picasso, Calder, Francis Bacon, Wassily Kandinsky, and Joan Mir\u00f3, among others. While the gallery did not provide prices, many of the works on offer have recent auction history.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe 1944 Picasso canvas Nature Morte \u00e0 la Bougie<\/em> most recently sold at Christie\u2019s London in 2024, where it hammered for a price of $2.2 million, on a $3.1 million to $4.4 million estimate, according to data from art analytics firm ARTDAI. It sold prior to that in 2010 at Sotheby\u2019s London for $3.8 million.<\/p>\n
\n\tAlso on offer is Henri Matisse\u2019s 1919 painting Femme \u00e0 l\u2019ombrelle verte<\/em>, which sold just last year at Sotheby\u2019s London for a hammer price of $2.77 million, on a $2.71 to $4.06 million estimate. It also sold in 2015, also at Sotheby\u2019s London, for roughly the same price\u2014$2.84 million.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe Kandinsky, a nearly 19-inch-square canvas titled Trois ovales <\/em>(1942), sold at Christie\u2019s New York in May 2025 for a hammer price of $1.07 million, on a $800,000 to $1.2 million estimate. Notably one of the previous owners of the work, according to Christie\u2019s published provenance, was Davlyn Gallery, the gallery purchased by Nahmad in 2000, which the dealer subsequently renamed. However, it seems that the work was sold to another gallery in 1985, well before Nahmad took over the gallery.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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Pace Di Donna Schrader<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Courtesy Pace Di Donna Schrader\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\tJust six months after forming, Pace Di Donna Schrader, the super-group comprised of Pace Gallery, dealer Emmanuel Di Donna, and former auction executive\u00a0David Schrader, is bringing a booth packed with high-end secondary market works. The headline work featured in preview PDFs reviewed by ARTnews<\/em> is seven-foot-high painting by Willem De Kooning from 1984. A source familiar with the gallery\u2019s planning for the booth suggested that the price of the work is in the region of $10 million, with most other works\u2014including pieces by Calder, Richter, Warhol, Claude Lalanne, Cy Twombly, and others\u2014pegged between $1 million and $5 million.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
\n\tAmong the more exquisite historical pieces at Basel will be a Degas pastel from 1881\u201382,\u00a0Madame May aupr\u00e8s d\u2019un berceau<\/em> (Madame May beside a cradle), at the booth of Luxembourg & Co. At just over four feet high, it is the largest pastel the artist ever made, according to the gallery. It depicts the wife of Jewish financier Ernest May, who appears in Degas\u2019s earlier pastel\u00a0Portraits at the Stock Exchange<\/em>\u00a0(1878\u201379), in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The gallery did not provide a price but said another highlight of the booth will be two drawings by Seurat.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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