A David Hockney landscape was among the early sales reported at Art Basel.

We hear his Mid November Tunnel 2006 was snapped up quickly after being offered for around $13 million by the Annely Juda gallery.

In a pre-fair press release, the London gallery described the work as "a beautiful example of Hockney’s Yorkshire landscape paintings".

Much cheaper and almost as sought after were the limited edition Art Basel Labubu dolls. The collectible monsters, designed by Hong Kong and Belgium-based Kasing Lung, are this year's must-have toys and the 100 produced in partnership with the fair flew off the shelves at a very reasonable $246.

Also attracting attention - but at the time of writing apparently still unsold - was Maurizio Cattelan’s kneeling Adolf Hitler sculpture complete with a paper bag over its head.

It was at the Gagosian booth curated by writer and critic Francesco Bonami, former Venice and Whitney biennial curator and longstanding confidante of the Italian artist.

London artist Rhea Dillon was awarded The Baloise Art Prize for her presentation Leaning Figures at Art Basel's Statements section which presents work by emerging artists.

The prize includes the acquisition of some of her work for the Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt.

Most people who want to get some of Donald Judd's trademark minimalist furniture just order it from the official website, but not Kim Kardashian.

The reality TV star took a more round-about route after she settled a legal row with the Judd Foundation and a Los Angeles-based design firm Clements Design.

Court reports in the US show a lawsuit brought by the foundation has been settled. The artist's estate was upset after she appeared in a promotional video for her fashion firm Skims by Kim and boasted about the "Donald Judd tables" in her office.

The furniture in question were not actually authentic Judds hence the lawsuit which has now been resolved with the Foundation and Clements agreeing to acknowledge the "rights inherent to Donald Judd’s furniture and art", while Kardashian "will now have authentic Donald Judd tables and chairs from Donald Judd Furniture LLC".

Works by Ai Weiwei, Yinka Shonibare and Mona Hatoum are among a $16.8 million collection donated to the National Gallery of Canada by businessman Bob Rennie.

It means the Ottawa gallery has benefited to the tune of $25.8 million from his family since 2012 with more than 260 artworks donated to its collection in that time.

The philanthropist, who built up his fortune in real estate, previously chaired Tate Modern’s North American Acquisitions Committee and was a trustee at the Art Institute of Chicago. He currently chairs the Collectors Committee at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC.

Johannes Vermeer's Love Letter is going on show at New York's Frick Collection tomorrow on loan from Amsterdam's Rijkmuseum.

It will be joined by the National Gallery of Ireland’s Woman Writing a Letter with Her Maid and the Frick's own Mistress and Maid for the exhibition Vermeer's Love Letters.

The show, which runs to August 31, comes after the 2023 loan of a trio of Vermeers from the Frick to the Dutch museum for a special exhibition which became its most successful ever, bringing in around 650,000 visitors from 113 countries.

1 - The UK government has put a temporary export bar on an oil sketch, titled Cimon Falling in love with Efigenia, by Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens. The work, valued at $11.3 million, is at risk of leaving the country unless a UK gallery or museum can raise the money to buy it.

2 - Contemporary drawings and prints by Toba Khedoori will go on show at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. They will be displayed alongside a major new show, Lines of Connection: Drawing and Printmaking, which traces hundreds of years of art history from the 16th to 19th centuries when it opens on July 1.

3 - Visitors to the Louvre were left disappointed when the Paris institution was closed yesterday by an unofficial strike. A union representative said a planned monthly staff meeting turned into "a mass expression of exasperation" over working conditions.