Among the top-selling pieces, the highest price reached £152,400, achieved by two works by Fahrelnissa Zeid and Bahman Mohassess.
The weird thing is that artists, institutions, and art collectors fail to recognize the signature as a critical strategic tool.
Salman Moghadasi's piece "Sky” straddles the line between meaning and abstraction; it is bold, black and white, and filled with silence punctuated by forms.
It may sound incredible, but the record for selling an artwork in the Middle East has remained at 2.8 million dollars since 2008.
Ali Shirazi, a renowned calligrapher in the Middle East, created the calligraphic piece "بسم اللّٰه الرحمن الرحيم" or "Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem" (In English: "In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful"). The exceptional calligraphy and the artist's remarkable ability to write continuously are what set this particular work of art apart.
Oil and the Middle East are not equivalent. The Middle East's greatest resource is its outstanding human potential, which has been kept secret in the oil market for a long time.
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