{"id":662,"date":"2017-10-26T08:45:29","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T08:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/middleeastevents.com\/blog\/?p=662"},"modified":"2017-10-26T08:45:29","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T08:45:29","slug":"christies-first-london-based-middle-eastern-modern-contemporary-art-evening-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/christies-first-london-based-middle-eastern-modern-contemporary-art-evening-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"Christie&#8217;s First London-Based Middle Eastern Modern &#038; Contemporary Art Evening Auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christie&#8217;s launched the marquee event &#8216;Middle Eastern Art&#8217; with Middle Eastern Modern &amp; Contemporary Art evening auction, which moved from Dubai to London this season and achieved a total of \u00a35,235,125 \/ $6,863,249 \/ \u20ac5,826,694 with sell-through rates of 85% by lot and 88% by value. Registered bidders from 23 countries confirmed the international appetite for works from the region. The sale was led by a world auction record for the Iraqi artist Jewad Selim, whose painting The Watermelon Seller sold for \u00a3668,750 \/ $876,731 \/ \u20ac744,319, more than double its high estimate of \u00a3250,000. Egyptian artists were a focal point of the evening with the recognised master Mahmoud Sa\u00efd&#8217;s intimate portrait Hanem selling for \u00a3320,750 \/ $420,503 \/ \u20ac356,995 alongside his second version of La fille aux yeux verts (\u00a3175,000 \/ $229,425 \/ \u20ac194,775) while his reclining nude Nu au rideau gris completed the group (\u00a393,750.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-663 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ac.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"915\" height=\"1050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ac.jpg 915w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ac-261x300.jpg 261w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ac-768x881.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ac-892x1024.jpg 892w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 915px) 100vw, 915px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christie&#8217;s launched the marquee event &#8216;Middle Eastern Art&#8217; with Middle Eastern Modern &amp; Contemporary Art evening auction, which moved from Dubai to London this season and achieved a total of \u00a35,235,125 \/ $6,863,249 \/ \u20ac5,826,694 with sell-through rates of 85% by lot and 88% by value. Registered bidders from 23 countries confirmed the international appetite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":664,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions\/664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}