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Top 10 Works at Art Basel Paris 2024: From Kounellis to Magritte

festival-fair · 2026-04-26

From October 16-20, 2024, the Grand Palais hosted Art Basel Paris, showcasing 194 galleries. Key exhibitions included the Surrealism centenary at the Centre Pompidou and a retrospective of Arte Povera, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev. Significant transactions featured two works by Jannis Kounellis (1994) at Cardi Gallery, each valued between €250,000 and €350,000, and Alicja Kwade's 'L'ordre des mondes (Totem)' at Mennour, priced at €400,000-500,000. Highlighted was René Magritte's 'Le corde sensible' from Landau Fine Art, which fetched £14.4 million in 2017. A museum acquired Alighiero Boetti's 'Mappa' (1989-1991). Kehinde Wiley's 'Alain Tala and Teddy Siemogne' was displayed at Templon, while Michelangelo Pistoletto's 'Buco Nero' was listed at €500,000-600,000 at Galleria Continua.

Key facts

  • Art Basel Paris 2024 held at Grand Palais from October 16-20
  • Two Jannis Kounellis works sold for €250,000-350,000 each on opening day
  • Alicja Kwade's 'L'ordre des mondes (Totem)' priced €400,000-500,000
  • René Magritte's 'Le corde sensible' previously sold at Christie's for £14.4 million in 2017
  • Alighiero Boetti's 'Mappa' (1989-1991) sold to a museum
  • Michelangelo Pistoletto's 'Buco Nero' priced €500,000-600,000
  • Giovanni Anselmo died in 2023; his work was shown posthumously
  • Jan Mot presented Philippe Thomas's conceptual works where collectors sign as authors

Entities

Artists

  • Jannis Kounellis
  • Alicja Kwade
  • René Magritte
  • Alighiero Boetti
  • Kehinde Wiley
  • Michelangelo Pistoletto
  • Julius Von Bismarck
  • Georg Baselitz
  • Giovanni Anselmo
  • Philippe Thomas
  • André Bosmans
  • Georgette Magritte
  • Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev

Institutions

  • Art Basel
  • Grand Palais
  • Cardi Gallery
  • Mennour
  • Landau Fine Art
  • Tornabuoni
  • Templon
  • Galleria Continua
  • Esther Schipper
  • Thaddaeus Ropac
  • Marian Goodman
  • Jan Mot
  • Centre Pompidou
  • Bourse de Commerce
  • Christie's
  • Musée du Louvre
  • Pinault Collection
  • MAXXI
  • Galerie Lelong
  • Artribune

Locations

  • Paris
  • France
  • Berlin
  • Germany
  • Rome
  • Italy
  • Milan
  • Afghanistan
  • Morocco
  • Cameroon
  • Africa
  • Russia
  • Breisach am Rhein
  • Verbania
  • Lago Maggiore
  • Bergamo

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