Richter and Baselitz Paintings Lead Art Basel Paris Opening Sales at $10 Million Each

Key facts

• Gerhard Richter's Rokokotisch and Georg Baselitz's Der Hirte, both from 1965, each sold for around $10 million at Hauser & Wirth during Art Basel Paris previews at the Grand Palais.
• Hauser & Wirth also sold a Mark Bradford for $4 million, a new George Condo painting for $2.95 million, and a 1961 Lucio Fontana for about $2 million.
• White Cube sold two Julie Mehretu paintings for $7.85 million each; David Zwirner placed a Richter for $8.5 million.
• Pace sold Jean Dubuffet's La chaise (1964) for just over $5 million; Le Minotaure sold a 1922 Wassily Kandinsky watercolor for about $2.3 million.
• Seton Smith donated more than 250 prints by Kiki Smith to the New York Public Library, the most comprehensive U.S. collection of her prints.
• Zane Li won the 2026 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund, receiving $300,000 and mentorship.
• The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation launched a free digital catalogue raisonné covering 1948–1953, with a print edition due in winter 2027.
• University of Fukui researchers developed a dye-free polyester recycling method using supercritical carbon dioxide at 120°C.