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"The Best Art In The World"
Christian Marclay, Untitled, 2004. Courtesy Fraenkel Gallery
By PAUL LASTER, Jun. 2017
Presenting 291 galleries from 35 countries and six continents, the 48th edition of Art Basel offers artworks in a wide variety of media by an international mix of modern and contemporary artists. Perusing the fair, we’ve chosen 25 works that we want to add to our collection—ranging from paintings by Francis Picabia, Frank Stella and Neo Rauch to sculptures by Mark Manders and Erwin Wurm and photographs by Richard Avedon, Joan Jonas and Richard Prince.
Scroll through to see more images of our favorite pieces at the fair. WM
Frank Stella, Sunapee IV, 1966. Courtesy Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art
Nick Cave, Soundsuit, 2017. Courtesy Jack Shainman Gallery
Lawrence Weiner, CALLED BY ANOTHER NAME, 2016. Courtesy Alfonso Artiaco
Francis Picabia, Couple de monstres, ca. 1924. Courtesy Richard Gray Gallery
Alberto Biasi, Dinamica Circolare, 1979. Courtesy The Mayor Gallery
Sanford Biggers, We & Them, 2017. Courtesy Marianne Boesky Gallery
Nam June Paik, TV Buddha, 1992. Courtesy James Cohan Gallery
The Guerrilla Girls The Birth Of Feminism, 2001. Courtesy mfc - michèle didier
Alain Jacquet, Cantique Spirituel à la louange du Très-Saint sacrement de l’autel, ca. 1962. Courtesy Galerie Georges-Philippe et Nathalie Vallois
Gillian Wearing, Me and Claude in Mirror, 2017. Courtesy Maureen Paley
Al Held, Untitled, 1956. Courtesy Cheim & Read
Robert Longo, Untitled (White Door to Freud's Consulting Room, 1938), 2004. Courtesy Galerie Hans Mayer
Rob Pruitt, Rob Pruitt’s Official Art World / Celebrity Look-Alikes, 2016. Courtesy Gavin Brown's enterprise
Erwin Wurm, Flat Iron, 2016. Courtesy Lehmann Maupin
Neo Rauch, Blutsbrüder, 2017. Courtesy David Zwirner
Richard Prince, The Playmate, 2012. Courtesy Carolina Nitsch Contemporary Art
Robert Motherwell, Two Figures No.12, 1958. Courtesy Waddington Custot
Mark Manders, Large Composition with Red, 2017. Courtesy Zeno X Gallery
Lee Ufan, With Winds, 1987. Courtesy Tina Kim Gallery
Patrick Caulfield, Girl on a Terrace, 1971, 1971. Courtesy Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert
Richard Avedon, John Glenn, Astronaut, Langley Field, Virginia, March 31, 1961, 1961. Courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery
Barbara Kasten, Transposition 28, 2016. Courtesy Bortolami
Joan Jonas, Mirror performance III, 1969. Courtesy Galleria Raffaella Cortese
Arman, Christo's Refuse, 1973. Courtesy Leila Heller Gallery
Paul Laster is a writer, editor, curator, artist and lecturer. He’s a contributing editor at ArtAsiaPacific and Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art and writer for Time Out New York, Harper’s Bazaar Arabia, Galerie Magazine, Sculpture, Art & Object, Cultured, Architectural Digest, Garage, Surface, Ocula, Observer, ArtPulse, Conceptual Fine Arts and Glasstire. He was the founding editor of Artkrush, started The Daily Beast’s art section, and was art editor of Russell Simmons’ OneWorld Magazine, as well as a curator at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, now MoMA PS1.
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