“The reality of what I’d call the real middle market—maybe $100,000 to $1 million—is that things are still a bit sticky,” Candace Worth, founder of the New York–based Worth Art Advisory, told me on Tuesday. “There’s definitely more energy than there was a year ago, and more things are selling, but advisers and gallerists will still tell you it’s not easy. Buyers are taking longer to make decisions.”