It’s my annual day at Frieze Masters, scouting round in the morning in order to be able to do an introductory tour for RA Patrons in the afternoon.

Sam Fogg always has my favourite stand right by the entrance, where one can see medieval works which in theory I could see in Cork Street, but in practice don’t.   I start with a late fifteenth-century Spanish Lamentation:

There’s a very beautiful English alabaster of the Coronation of the Virgin:-

And I like the more primitive thirteenth-century Head of an Apostle:-

I’m keen on the work of Axel Vervoordt, ever since I saw his installation at the Palazxo Fortuny in the summer.   He does exactly what Frieze Masters is supposed to encourage – the juxtaposition of old and new, including an Egyptian palette (c.3100 BC):-

On Bernheimer’s stand, there’s a terrific Horst P. Horst of Salvador Dalí:-

I’m always impressed by the quality and range of antiquities which are still available, not too expensively, in spite of the strict rules on provenance eg (on the Kallos Gallery stand) A Roman Marble Hand 2nd. century AD:-

A Limestone Model of a Ptolomaic King:-

Next door, Georg Laue has another 14th. century alabaster:-

Offer Waterman has very good twentieth-century British:  an unexpectedly good Henry Lamb, dated 1909:-

And a wonderful Barbara Hepworth (1963):-

I’m now desparate for a cup of coffee.