Frieze London's invitation-only opening day delivered a split verdict on the market's health, with trophy sales at the very top coexisting with the strongest energy at the very bottom of the price range. Reporting from Regent's Park, The Art Newspaper found that six recent Albert Oehlen oil paintings all sold at Gagosian — understood to be priced above $1 million each — while Lisson placed two Dalton Paula paintings at £50,000 apiece with four more on reserve, and Pace said nearly all of its five large Marina Perez Simão canvases, priced at $250,000 each, had sold by the end of preview day. The highest reported transaction of day one was not at Frieze London itself but across the park at Frieze Masters, where Hauser & Wirth sold Jan Brueghel the Elder's Still Life of Flowers in a Stoneware Vase for around £5 million. Art advisers quoted in the piece struck a cautious tone, with one observing that it is "the very high and the very low stuff" selling best, and another noting that galleries appear focused on covering costs rather than chasing windfalls. The more striking theme was the appetite for risk at modest prices. Harlesden High Street, a small north London gallery, sold its entire stand of Marcus Jefferson's text-based street-sign-like works, priced between £2,000 and £8,000, by the end of VIP day. Maureen Paley reported a Wolfgang Tillmans photograph selling for $120,000 alongside a £29,000 painting by Royal Academy graduate Mary Stephenson, an $18,000 watercolour by Nigerian-American artist Chioma Ebinama, and a £33,000 wooden landscape by Merlin James. Dealers also described a slower decision-making rhythm than before the market downturn, and a shift of VIP traffic toward the weekend — Frieze added Saturday VIP hours for the first time this year — partly because many collectors now combine London with Art Basel Paris the following week. "The serious money is going to Paris," one adviser said, though buyers from growth regions including the Arabian Gulf and India were actively purchasing in London, with one Emirati collector acquiring works priced at €24,000 and £20,000.