BASEL, Switzerland—In the over $50,000 category, two elaborate installations by David Altmejd sold at two separate galleries: one a 305-by-203-by-291-cm. work (The Trail) at Stuart Shave/Modern Art for $65,000; and a slightly smaller one at Andrea Rosen for $55,000. Both works consisted of his typical architectural superstructures adorned with sprouting crystals, acorns, gems and bondage references. …

Sydney’s Rosalyn Oxley9 Gallery sold a Yayoi Kusama painting (with typically Kusama-ian dots) for $63,500. …

Reena Spaulings Fine Art (New York) sold for $15,000 an untitled Josh Smith painting with wide zig-zag swaths of paints and maroon swirls that would be perfectly placed in an upscale candy shop. …

The Goodman Gallery from Johannesburg sold a William Kentridge pastel-and-charcoal-on-paper drawing, Preparing the Flute (from set design studies for a performance of Mozart’s The Magic Flute), for $35,000. The same gallery also had some excellent photos from David Goldblatt.

Galleria Massimo Minini (Brescia, Italy) sold out the edition of a giant photograph by Vanessa Beecroft of a glass table surrounded by woman of various ages and various states of undress for €40,000 (edition of 3). …

Arndt + Partner (Berlin/Zurich) sold an Anton Henning bronze abstraction of a still-life of flowers (Blumenstilleben) for €31,000 (edition of 3). …

Gallerist of Istanbul sold for $15,000 a painting by the Turkish painter Taner Ceylan; Ball (oil on canvas, 36 x 52 cm.) features two men in a homoerotic clutch on an elegant dance floor, while respectably dressed admirers look on. Taner (who doesn’t yet have an American gallery) also had at the booth two other works that seem to show that Turkey, at least with art, isn’t cracking down on explicit expressions of sex: One $12,000 canvas, Taner Taner, showed the artist having anal sex with himself. …

At Basel’s own Tony Wuethrich Galerie, three of Korea-born Lee Noori’s paintings, all titled Audition, sold for between 8,000-8,500 Swiss francs; thematically, they resemble soft-core Araki, enlivened with abstract splotches and blank faces. …

Galeria Juana de Aizpuru sold a black-and-white photo by Alberto Garcia Alix of a woman with an impressively shellacked hairdo for €8,000 (edition 3/3). …

Oslo’s Galleri Riis sold four sculptures by Bard Breivik for €8,000 each. Each slender, wall-mounted sculpture from his Score for a Longer Conversation series is made of a different material, but each is 120 cm. high. Breivik has no U.S. gallery representation, but sells exceedingly well in Europe.