Kavi Gupta Gallery Hit With Restraining Order Amid $2 M. Art Dispute

A New York judge has temporarily barred Chicago dealer Kavi Gupta and his gallery from selling or marketing a collection of artworks at the center of an increasingly messy dispute with a company that gave the struggling gallery more than $2 million in cash last year.The deal at the heart of the case is an unusual one, but its purpose was fairly straightforward.In May 2025, a company called Longcraft LLC paid Kavi Gupta Gallery $2.05 million for roughly 150 artworks. Rather than take possession o