TEHRAN -- Iranian artworks will go on sale during Christie’s Modern and Contemporary Arab, Iranian and Turkish Art sales in Dubai on October 25 and 26.

Iranian artworks, which comprise more than one third of the sale, will be offered at the auction to be held at the Jumeirah Emirates Towers, Godolphin Ballroom.

A total of 57 Iranian artists will present 72 works at the event.  Turkey will take part in the event with 13 artists, and 112 Arabs from twelve countries will also display their artworks at the sale.

Farhad Moshiri’s installation “Fame” which is estimated $300,000 to $500,000 is the most expensive lot of the sale. The artworks which features the word “fame” is made of acrylic, steel knives with wooden handles, plastic pearls on canvas on MDF board.

A painting created by Sohrab Sepehri, one from the “Tree Trunk Series” estimated at about $250,000 to $300,000 ranks second with two works by Egyptian artists Mahmoud Said.

“Lovers” by Parviz Tanavoli, “Heading towards New York” by Afshin Pirhashemi and artworks by celebrated artists Bahman Mohasses, Hossein Zendehrudi, Farideh Lashaii, Reza Derakhshani and Reza Mafi are also among the highlight list of the sale.

Aydin Aghdashlu, Masud Arabshahi, Nasrollah Afjehii, Kurosh Shishegaran, and Sedaqat Jabbari are other artists whose works will go on display at the event.

Iran’s Assar Art Gallery also presented artworks by modern artists Roxana Manuchehri and Reza Azimian.

The first day of the sale will include modern artworks and higher-valued contemporary works by artists including Sohrab Sepehri, Farhad Moshiri, Louay Kayyali, Paul Guiragossian, Mahmoud Said and Charles Hossein Zendehrudi.

A wide range of works concentrating on contemporary art by artists from the region will go on sale the following evening at the event.

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