“It happened sooner than we thought,’’ said Iwan Wirth, the global gallery’s co-founder. “It came with the sun.”

L.A.’s David Kordansky Gallery sold almost its whole booth -- a solo presentation by Kathryn Andrews. Prices started at $40,000 and reached $110,000, including $85,000 for her sculpture featuring a hand prop from “Terminator 2: Judgment Day.”

The gallery Kayne Griffin Corcoran said the Hammer Museum bought a charcoal drawing by Mary Corse, with the asking price of $150,000. A light piece by James Turrell, priced at $350,000, also went quickly.

“If people had doubts about the fair they don’t have them any longer,” said Lisa Spellman, owner of New York’s 303 Gallery. She sold two works by L.A. artist Doug Aitken, including a $250,000 lightbox depicting a blue swimming pool glowing against hills in black silhouette.

Felix, the fair co-founded by former Walt Disney Co. executive Dean Valentine, drew a mob at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel starting in the afternoon. An international roster of galleries set up shop in hotel rooms, with paintings and sculptures spread across beds, hung in showers and propped up on desks.

“It’s attracting a lot of out-of-town collectors who are looking to Los Angeles for the cultural resources,” said David Daniels, a sales director at L.A. gallery Morán Morán, which co-organized the event. “There’s a lot of people who are involved in creative businesses here, and I think they often overlook art because they’re involved in other creative endeavors.”

Still, this week’s events showed the city is, in its own way, an art hub.

Collector Michael Ovitz opened his home in Beverly Hills, where works by Mark Rothko, Jasper Johns and Pablo Picasso competed for attention with emerging artists, tribal pieces and Ming dynasty furniture.

In Brentwood, NPR Chief Executive Officer Jarl Mohn greeted guests to his mansion filled with minimalist art by Donald Judd and Carl Andre as well as gems by California “Light and Space” movement practitioners such as Doug Wheeler.

“For creators, L.A. is the singular most important place on the planet,’’ Mohn said. “The problem is that as a business and commerce center, we have a long, long way to go. Having Frieze here is going to help.’’