| Pintura | 198 |
| Dibujo Acuarela | 59 |
| Grabado | 28 |
| Cerámica | 1 |
As Christie’s celebrates its 10th anniversary in the city, Artprice rounds up the top-10 auction results ever hammered in Dubai, a free-zone with lots of extravagant projects, fuelled by a constant inflow of cash.
Every fortnight Artprice presents a theme-based auction ranking. This week: the ten best auction results in the Middle East.
In August 2008, the Art Market Insight published an overview of the boom in Iranian art. The United Arab Emirates, the new eldorado of cultural tourism, is building its Louvre in Abu Dhabi and its Guggenheim in Dubai, the city that has established itself, in two years, as the new capital of the Middle Eastern art market. In 2008, auction revenues in Dubai amounted to USD 34.9 million, a +70% increase on 2007.