Hauser & Wirth confirmed late on the opening day that it had sold Jan Brueghel the Elder's Still Life of Flowers in a Stoneware Vase, painted around 1607-08, for "in the region of" £5 million ($6.5 million). The work was once owned by Baron Alphonse von Rothschild and last changed hands at Sotheby's in London in 2016 for £3.8 million. It anchored the day's reported sales as Frieze London and Frieze Masters opened to VIPs in Regent's Park on October 14. Dealers described a bifurcated fair. London's Pilar Corrias, back after a two-year hiatus, sold out a three-person stand of landscapes by Sholto Blissett and Georg Wilson alongside Rachel Rose. Access to the price list for Francesca Mollett's solo show with Modern Art was tightly controlled, with several buyers chasing each of the works priced between £15,000 and £100,000. São Paulo's Fortes D'Aloia & Gabriel sold all five Márcia Falcão paintings, three at $30,000 and two at $60,000. The big-house booths reported steady business. Hauser & Wirth also moved an $800,000 Avery Singer; White Cube sold five Ilana Savdie paintings for $110,000 to $175,000 each; David Zwirner placed a $1.5 million Michaël Borremans and a $900,000 Dana Schutz; Perrotin sold several Izumi Kato works for up to $250,000; and Thaddaeus Ropac sold an Antony Gormley for £500,000. Indian galleries found buyers too: Vadehra placed two Sunil Gupta photographs with an institution, while Project 88 sold editions by Munem Wasif and sculptures by Amol K. Patil in the £15,000-to-£20,000 range. The fair said VIP bookings were up sharply on last year: 24 percent from the Middle East and North Africa, 22 percent from South Asia, 22 percent from Southeast Asia and 36 percent from Brazil. With Frieze Abu Dhabi debuting in November, galleries from MENA including Casablanca's Loft Art Gallery and Jeddah's ATHR used Masters to court Western institutions. The mood on the floor, in one advisor's summary, was a market of heat pockets rather than blanket demand.