Frieze: 20 I’d Buy (2025)
This post isn’t about the names, the hype or the hottest trends in art. It’s not about the installations designed with social media in mind.
This is about my personal taste as a collector, and which 10 works I’d buy (at each fair) if money and wall space were unlimited. I could sit and stare at these all day long.
Images shown roughly in the order in which I saw them.
NOTE: Details listed are per the booth display text, which wasn’t always fully detailed.
Frieze
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1️⃣
Toni Schmale
circlusion kleine metallarbeit ***, 2025
steel forged, waxed
145 x 100 x 18 cm
Galerie Krinzinger (A12)
2️⃣
Xin Liu
beeswax and tree resin and silk
Public Gallery (F25)
3️⃣
Paloma Proudfoot
The Archivist (III), 2025
Glazed ceramic, cord, linen, metal bolts
146 x 83 x 3 cm
The Approach (B6)
4️⃣
Sofía Salazar Rosales
Where does the strength come from?, 2025
Iron filings, cardboard, glass beads, nylon, iron, iron wire, fiberglass, polyester resin
110 x 24 x 33 cm
ChertLüdde (D18)
5️⃣
Do Ho Suh
Lehmann Maupin (C13)
6️⃣
Thomas Houseago
Xavier Hufkens (B19)
7️⃣
Rachel Whiteread
Galleria Lorcan O’Neill (C9)
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8️⃣
Rafał Zajko
Coulisse Gallery (F28)
9️⃣
Alex Seton
Rosa Portugal Marble Unique Ed. 1/3
~ 45 x 55 x 55 cm (each)
Sullivan+Strumpf (D29)
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Alvaro Barrington
Been Around the World Sunset, 2025
Oil on found postcard, artist’s frame
Dimension variable
Sadie Coles (D13)
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Frieze Masters
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1️⃣
Yves Klein
RP2: Grenoble, 1961
Pigment and synthetic resin on card
41 x 65.5 cm
Robilant+Voena (D2)
2️⃣
Henry Moore
Group of Seated Figures
Pen and ink, chalk and charcoal over watercolour, heightened with white.
332 x 559 mm
Stephen Ongpin Fine Art (C10)
3️⃣
Mona Hatoum
Divan Bed, 1996
Steel tread plate
54.6 x 192.4 x 77 cm
Willoughby Gerrish (E11)
4️⃣
Alexander Calder
Little Yellow Post, 1963
Sheet metal, rod, wire and paint
30.5 x 38 x 17.8 cm
Omer Tiroche Gallery (G10)
5️⃣
Frank Bowling
Who’s afraid of Red, yellow and blue? [Dawn], 1999
Acrylic and acrylic gel on canvas with maroflauge
123.2 x 149.5 x 3.8 cm
Hauser & Wirth (D1)
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6️⃣
Merlin Evans
Two Figures, 1947-53
oil on canvas
45.5 x 40.5 cm
Jonathan Clark Fine Art (C15)
7️⃣
Francis Picabia
Mendica, c. 1929-1934
Oil on canvas
173.7 x 141.9 x 6.7 cm framed
Vito Schnabel Gallery (A4)
8️⃣
Jan Van de Venne
(Active in Brussels between 1616 and 1651)
Tronie: Fool’s Head in profile
18x5 x 18.9cm
9️⃣
Henry Moore
Seated Figures, c.1948
Gouache, brush and grey wash, coloured wax crayons and brush and pen and India ink on paper laid down on card
29..2 x 24.2 cm
Osborne Samuel (D13)
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Andy Warhol
Oxidation, 1977-1978
urine and copper paint on linen
35.6 x 25.4 cm
Skarstedt (F1)
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‘Frieze London & Frieze Masters’ was 15-19 October, 2025.
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