DOHA: Sotheby’s is showcasing works by leading Arab, Iranian and international contemporary artists at an exhibition which opens tomorrow at Katara Art Centre Building No. 5.
Artworks including paintings, installation art, photography, and sculptures are some of the highlights of the Contemporary Art auction to be held on April 21 at the same venue.
This is the third time Sotheby’s will be holding a Contemporary Art sale in Doha. At its auction last October at Katara, Sotheby’s sold 53 lots for a total of $8,006,625 and set 13 records.
A highlight of the upcoming sale is Anish Kapoor’s Untitled from the artist’s Pixelated Disk series, another one of which sold at Sotheby’s Doha in October 2014 to great acclaim, setting the highest price for the artist in the Middle East and the highest auction price for a work from this series by Kapoor (est. $800,000/1.2m, above).
Kapoor’s acclaimed work will be shown at the pre-sale exhibition along with works by renowned artists such as Untitled (est. $600,000/800,000) by Rudolf Stingel, El Anatsui’s Introvert (est. $700,000/1m) and Christopher Wool’s Untitled (est. $1/1.5m).
Among other works that will be on display are Ali Banisadr’s The Shrines ($100/150,000), Chant Avedissian’s Icons of the Nile (est. $150/200,000) Ayman Baalbaki’s Al Mulatham (est. $80/120,000), Farid Belkahia’s Untitled (est. $40/60,000), Farhad Moshiri’s I’ve got Sunshine (est. $120/180,000) and Abdulnasser Gharem’s Men At Work (Time Magazine Person Of The Year 2003: The American Soldier) (est. $20/30,000).
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