Art Flippers Chase Fresh Stars as Murillo’s Doodles Soar

Kour Pour, the 26-year-old whose detailed paintings depict Persian rugs, drew such a frenzy for his first solo exhibition that his works sold out before the opening last month at New York’s Untitled Gallery.

All seven of the U.K.-born, Los Angeles-based artist’s 8-foot-tall paintings were priced at $15,000. The gallery has a three-page waiting list for Pour’s works and received unsolicited offers from buyers willing to pay “significantly more,” said Joel Mesler, co-owner of the Lower East Side gallery where the show runs through Feb. 23.