Dubai auction sets highest price for Arab art
- April 28, 2010 10:26
An Egyptian painting from 1934 became the most expensive work by an Arab artist on Tuesday, selling for $2.43 million at a Christie's auction in Dubai.
“Les Chadoufs” by Mahmoud Said shows a woman in a veil carrying water and two men and donkey drawing water from a well. The pre-sale estiamte was $150,000 to $200,000.
The record-breaker came from the collection of Mohammed Said Farsi, a former Jeddah mayor and well-known art lover, whose collection sold out at the sale for $8.7 million overall.
_-Closing-the-Distance_100x100_c.jpg "Lot 204: Bob Kuhn (1920–2007),Closing the Distance, 1977, acrylic on masonite, 24 x 48 in, Sold: $409,500")
![A 19th century Seven Piece "Chrysanthemum" Pattern Sterling Silver Coffee & Tea Service, which was exhibited in the Tiffany & Co. booth at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exhibition in Chicago](/images/c/78/96/Tiffany___Co__Makers_Seven_Piece_"Chrysanthem100x100_c.jpg "A 19th century Seven Piece \"Chrysanthemum\" Pattern Sterling Silver Coffee & Tea Service, which was exhibited in the Tiffany & Co. booth at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exhibition in Chicago")
