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TEFAF New York 2026 Concludes with Strong Institutional Attendance and Seven-Figure Sales
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TEFAF New York 2026 Concludes with Strong Institutional Attendance and Seven-Figure Sales

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Sunday, May 31, 2026 · 1 min read
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The tenth edition of TEFAF New York concluded at the Park Avenue Armory, featuring 90 exhibitors from 14 countries and drawing representatives from over 260 global museums. Notable sales included a Joan Miró painting for $1.3 million at Waddington Custot and multiple François-Xavier Lalanne sculptures priced up to $1.4 million at Mitterrand. The fair, which ran from May 15–19, 2026, reported significant transactions across modern art, design, and antiquities to both private and institutional collectors.

  • Artists: Anna Zemánková, Magdalene Odundo, Kim Lim, Frank Auerbach, Alfred Wallis, Cai Guo-Qiang, Joon Yong Kim, Joan Miró, Barry Flanagan, Giorgio Morandi, Meret Oppenheim, Giosetta Fioroni, Sheila Hicks, César, Maria Pergay, Dorothea Tanning, Robert Mapplethorpe, Gordon Parks, Nicola L., François-Xavier Lalanne, Andy Warhol, Naum Gabo, Ithell Colquhoun, Lucian Freud, Barbara Hepworth, Larry Poons, Salvador Dalí, Alexander Calder
  • People: Leanne Jagtiani, Max Falkenstein, Alessia Calarota
  • Galleries: Thaddaeus Ropac, Axel Vervoordt, Gladstone, Offer Waterman, White Cube, Adrian Sassoon, Macklowe Gallery, Waddington Custot, Galleria d’Arte Maggiore g.a.m., Demisch Danant, Alison Jacques, Mitterrand, Osborne Samuel, Ben Hunter, Yares Art, Didier Ltd
  • Museums: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Minneapolis Institute of Art, MoMA PS1, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Art, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Philadelphia Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, The New Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, Louvre, Mauritshuis, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Museum of Cycladic Art, Rijksmuseum
  • Locations: New York, Maastricht
  • Prices: $500,000, $700,000, $35,000, $195,000, $1,300,000, $480,000, $40,000, $450,000, $10,000, $300,000, $800,000, $200,000, $225,000, $170,000, $1,400,000, $1,000,000, $25,000, $150,000

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Originally via TEFAF · Curated by The Cultural Signal
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