Frieze Masters: From dinosaur skulls to early Rubens, London’s most eclectic art fair returns

Published on 17/10/2025 - 18:45 GMT+2

A 68-million-year-old triceratops skull mightiness not beryllium nan first point you expect to find astatine an creation fair, but astatine Frieze Masters, nan bonzer is nan norm.

The fossil, discovered successful Montana and offered by David Aaron gallery, was snapped up connected opening time for £650,000. “It’s beautifully preserved,” says assemblage head Salomon Aaron. “"We besides waste specified specimens to privates. People often travel from nan tech abstraction aliases nan sciences space. People who want to unrecorded pinch these dinosaur fossils aliases to cod them."

If a dinosaur doesn’t fresh successful your surviving room, really astir an early masterpiece by Flemish creator Peter Paul Rubens? Priced astatine astir $10 cardinal (€8.6m), nan image connected show astatine Salomon Lilian’s guidelines captures nan artist’s fascination pinch masculine form.

"One ne'er sees an early activity by nan creator connected markets for illustration this," says assemblage proprietor Salomon Lilian. "And because an early activity intends 100% painted by Rubens alone. Because erstwhile he was still young, he didn't person a studio."

The arena remains a uncommon operation of antiquity and modern pieces - a spot wherever marble busts, Egyptian sarcophaguses and modern textiles coexist.

Frieze Masters runs until 19 October successful London’s Regent’s Park. Watch nan video successful nan webplayer supra for a look wrong nan fair.