CHRISTIE’S MAKES HIGHEST PRICE FOR A PAINTING BY A MIDDLE EASTERN ARTIST

$2.7 MILLION WORK BREAKS WORLD AUCTION RECORD FOR FAHR EL-NISSA ZEID & IS SECOND HIGHEST PRICE FOR ANY MIDDLE EASTERN WORK SOLD AT AUCTION

WORLD AUCTION RECORD FOR A
FEMALE MIDDLE EASTERN ARTIST

ShoesandDrama.com | CHRISTIE’S MAKES HIGHEST PRICE FOR A PAINTING BY A MIDDLE EASTERN ARTIST

Auctioneer, Jussi Pylkkänen, President of Christie’s Europe, Middle East, Russia and India sells El-Nissa Zeid’s Break of the Atom and Vegetal Life for $2,741,00 at Christie’s 15th auction of Modern and Contemporary Arab, Iranian and Turkish Art in Dubai.

DubaiChristie’s, the undisputed market leader in Middle Eastern modern and contemporary art, established the highest price ever paid for a painting by an artist from the region when Fahr El-Nissa Zeid’s Break of the Atom and Vegetal Life sold for $2,741,000 (AED10,064,952) in their Dubai saleroom this evening. This is the second highest price ever made for a work by a Middle Eastern artist after Parviz Tanavoli’s bronze sculpture Wall (Oh Persepolis) sold in these rooms in 2008 for $2.8 million.

The sale of the piece by Fahr El-Nissa Zeid (Turkish / Jordanian, 1900-1991) also makes her the highest valued female artist from the Middle East far surpassing the previous record for her work of $1 million.

Break of the Atom and Vegetal Life, painted in 1962 is considered the most important work by the artist. Inspired by a synthesis of Islamic calligraphic aesthetic traditions, Fahr El-Nissa Zeid employs an intricate use of colours and lines in a monumental and harmonious composition whereby purples morph into violets, while greens, reds and blues ring with violent blacks.

 

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