As Judd Tully reported, sales at the fair are proceeding at a fast clip, leading some dealers to call last week's successful Frieze fair comparatively slow. Here is a list of some sales that were made on the first day: 

At Daniel Templon's stand, it was surprising that Ivan Navarro's stunning neon drum set went unsold. However, Atul Dodiya's beautiful mixed-media "Meditation" sold with a price tag of €60,000 ($83,000).

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It was not surprising at all that Pierre et Gilles's enchanting photo-realist painting of Audrey Tautou sold "in a second" at the Jérôme de Noirmont gallery, to an American collector for €100,000 ($138,500). "Collectors have come from all over, even though some had trouble with the strikes," Noirmont told ARTINFO France. "Overall, it's really great."

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Shireen Gandhy, director of the Bombay gallery Chemould, has seen a real boom in Indian art over the last five years. She says that today sales are no longer climbing, but remain solid. The artist Jitish Kallat, whose career has been compared to that of Subodh Gupta, saw her large acrylic painting sell for €160,000 ($221,500).

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After the dramatic political controversy surrounding the Louvre's contemporary Russian art show, the Marat Guelman gallery has settled into the Cour Carrée with a selection of artists from the 1990s Perestroika group. Ukrainian artist Ilya Chichkan's arresting Pop portrait of a young woman with a Karl Marxian beard, painted on calfskin, sold for €8,000 ($11,100). Works by Alexey Kallima and Valery Koshlaykov were also promptly marked with red dots.

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Despite being rather hard to install — and to look at — Abel Abdessemed's cube of taxidermied animals at the David Zwirnergallery's booth sold yesterday evening for an undisclosed price.

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Two of Yayoi Kusama's pumpkin sculptures went for $500,000 each, and several of her paintings also found buyers.

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One of the most eagerly anticipated works at FIAC is Barry X Ball's "Sleeping Hermaphrodite." Ball worked closely with Louvre Museum experts to create this work, which was modeled on the Louvre's second-century A.D. marble statue of the same name. The Louvre statue was discovered in Rome in 1608 and placed on a marble couch by Italian sculptor Bernini in 1619. Barry X Ball's hermaphrodite atthe Salon 94 stand, however, is black, made from a two-and-a-half-ton block of marble, and created specifically for FIAC. Fair organizers actually had to reinforce the floor of the Cour Carrée in order to accommodate the incredibly heavy piece. Barry X Ball told ARTINFO France that he sought to "re-transcribe with sincerityall the mystery of its sexuality." The sculpture sold for €450,000 ($623,000).

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