SHARES

With many of its locations closed, Gagosian gallery has continued to make use of its online viewing rooms, which it launched in 2018, to sell work by its artists. This time the gallery has made a major sale: Cecily Brown’s Figures in a Landscape 1, a 2001 vibrant abstract painting that is among the most expensive ones by the artist ever sold. Her auction record stands at $6.8 million, which was set in May 2018 at Sotheby’s New York with the sale of her Suddenly Last Summer (1999). The next most expensive work sold at auction by Brown is The Pyjama Game (ca. 1997–98) for $4.9 million in November 2018. The Brown was included in Gagosian’s Frieze New York 2020 Online Viewing Room, which is separate from the gallery’s participation in the Frieze New York art fair, where it had a solo presentation of work by Katharaina Grosse and sold all the works on paper it had on offer.