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      Art Basel Week – Hong Kong 2018

      March 27 2018 | By Alexander Forbes for Artsy
      The 10 Best Booths at Art Basel in Hong Kong

      (Above: Installation view of Lévy Gorvy’s Galleries Section, Booth 1C14 at Art Basel in Hong Kong, 2018. © Art Basel.)

      The sixth edition of Art Basel in Hong Kong opened on Tuesday with 248 galleries setting up shop for the week in the massive Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, which overlooks Victoria Harbour. With each passing year, as the market in Asia and the sophistication of the audiences are both on the rise, the quality of work dealers bring to this fair increases, as does the number of curated, single-artist presentations outside of the fair’s designated sections for solo booths.

      If you want to see what’s almost certainly the most expensive work sold at a Hong Kong fair to date, head to Lévy Gorvy’s booth, where Willem de Kooning’s Untitled XII (1975) was purchased for an asking price of $35 million less than two hours into Tuesday’s opening. The work was consigned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s collection and is from the same series of large paintings as Untitled XXV (1977), which set the artist’s auction record of $66.3 million at Christie’s in November 2016—just before Brett Gorvy departed the house to team up with Dominique Lévy. But it’s far from the only draw for the booth.

      The gallery’s small room of works by Pat Steir is particularly worth a look. “It’s nice to have a moment to pause like this in a fair,” said Lévy, surveying paintings from her new series, “For Hong Kong” (2017–18)—which, as the title suggests, were made specially for the fair. They continue Steir’s engagement with Sung Dynasty thought, but employ a new color palette, which Lévy said “took courage” for the artist to explore.

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