AFP: Dubai auction sets highest guide price for Arab artist

AFP: Dubai auction sets highest guide price for Arab artist: "DUBAI — Auction house Christie's has set the highest ever guide price for a work by an Arab artist by putting a value of 600,000 to 800,000 dollars on a double calligraphy by Egyptian artist Ahmed Mustafa.His 'Remembrance and Gratitude' will go under the hammer in Dubai on Tuesday at a two-day auction at which the fine arts firm expects sales of between 12.9 and 17.8 million dollars.'Expectations are very high, especially with regards to the exhibited works of exceptional quality,' Jussi Pylkkanen, Christie's Middle East and Europe president, told AFP.Works by Middle East artists take centre stage, with other prominent Arab items including a landscape painting by late Syrian artist Fateh Moudarres valued at 180,000-250,000 dollars."

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