Middle Eastern Design Auction at Christie’s
Christie’s celebrates its 15th sale season with a revisited approach to its traditional sale format, including a newly curated design section to its longstanding Middle Eastern Modern & Contemporary Art auction. For the first time the auction will offer a section of Middle Eastern Design curated by Viktor Udzenija.
Christie’s marks this autumn with three innovative online auctions of Middle Eastern Art, showcasing exemplary works from this evolving regional market.
Matters of Material a selling exhibition curated by Dina Nasser-Khadivi focusing on supporting diversity in the international contemporary art market while defying stereotypes. Showcasing an intergenerational dialogue between contemporary artists from the Middle East, Africa and Latin America it explores how materials are used and recycled to create powerful statements and works of art
We Are All Beirut, a charity sale in response to the devastating explosion in in August, offers art, design and jewellery in support of the arts community in Beirut. Proceeds will benefit Arab Fund Arts & Culture (AFAC) and the Lebanese Red Cross to provide relief in rebuilding the art community in Beirut.
Modern & Contemporary Art Middle Eastern Art offers a diverse selection of contemporary works by modernist icons from across Morocco, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Iran and beyond. Headline lots include works by Farhad Moshiri, Farid Belkahia, Mohamed Melehi, Samia Halaby and Charles-Hossein Zenderoudi, amongst others.
But for the first time, Christie’s teamed up with Dubai-based architect and interior designer Viktor Udzenija to curate a range of contemporary reinterpretations and traditional influences design creations
Viktor Udzenija: “There is a vast depth of ingenuity, innovation and sustainability in these selected works, made by designers from the Middle East.
Everything that a piece of design should have these works have – their purpose/function, innovative use of material, pushing and reinventing old techniques and applying them with a new contemporary language, sensitive and sensible use of natural materials or re-use of recyclable materials to give them a new life, thus making them sustainable.”
Bidding: 11 Nov, 5am EST - 24 Nov, 9am EST
Ouroboros by Ranya Sarakbi (b. 1973)
hand-assembled cast bronze; number three in an edition of three plus two. Length: 110 cm.; Diameter: 11–17 cm. Executed in 2019–20
Estimate: GBP 120,000–180,000 (Sold for GBP 300,000)
Constellation C060 by david/nicolas
palm wood and satin brass; limited edition of eight plus four.
60 x 60 x 50 cm.
Executed in 2018
Estimate: GBP 14,000–18,000 (Sold for GBP 16,250)
Playtime Totems, (in two parts) by Hala Matta (b. 1970)
ceramic; unique
Piece A: Diameter: 65 cm.; Height: 28 cm.;
Piece B: Diameter: 65 cm.; Height: 23 cm.
Executed in 2019
Estimate: GBP 2,000–3,000 (Sold for GBP 2,500)
Imprint Dining Table by Nada Debs (b. 1962)
French oak wood with zinc inlay; unique. 75 x 120 x 120 cm. Executed in 2019
Estimate: GBP 15,000–20,000
Chair 1 by Carlo & Mary-Lynn Massoud (b. 1980–81)
painted concrete; unique.
Executed in 2020.
90 x 100 x 120 cm.
Estimate: GBP 5,000–7,000
‘Carabus’ mirror by Ammar Kalo (b. 1985)
robot-formed copper, camel leather, and tinted mirror glass;
prototype one in an edition of eight
108 x 60 x 7 cm.
Executed in 2019
Estimate: GBP 2,000–4,000
Large cabinet by Khaled El Mays (b. 1985)
(from the Palmea collection)
brass, wood and rattan
limited edition Nilufar Gallery exclusive plus one
132 x 60 x 45 cm.
Executed in 2018
Estimate: GBP 6,000–8,000
Alabaster Lamp Edging by Omar Chakil (b. 1974)
alabaster and glass;
number three in an edition of three
47 x 23 x 23 cm.
Executed in 2018
Estimate: GBP 1,000–2,000
Red Crates (Coca-Cola crates covered with upholstery and turned into stools), (in two parts) Unique by Hassan Hajjaj (b. 1961)
Cushion top: 49 x 34.5 x 5.5 cm / Crate: 46 x 31.5 x 36 cm. Executed in 1996
Estimate: GBP 1,000–2,000
Small Square #7 by Taher Asad-Bakhtiari (b. 1982)
naturally dyed hand spun wool; unique
152 x 164 x 2 cm.
Executed in 2015
Estimate: GBP 8,000–12,000
Photography by Julio Leipnitz Jnr and Natalie Parrish © Christie's
