By the end of the fair’s VIP preview on Thursday evening, New York’s Kasmin gallery had sold a bronze sculpture by Max Ernst for $225,000 and Chicago’s Monique Meloche Gallery placed a major Ebony G. Patterson tapestry for $130,000 with a prominent Chicago collector. Los Angeles-based Kohn Gallery reported selling a large Ilana Savdie painting to an East Coast institution for $110,000 and two Siji Krishnan paintings—one to an East Coast collector for $58,000 and another to a US private museum for $70,000. Local dealer Kavi Gupta placed a work by Marie Watt with a public collection and a work by Roger Brown, a member of the Chicago Imagists, with a major private collector.
