Press Release
Christie’s, the world’s leading art business and auction house, has today announced $30 million worth of renowned international and western art including exquisite jewels and watches will be sold at its forthcoming auctions to be staged at Jumeirah Emirates Towers hotel on 31st October and 1st November at 6.30 pm respectively.
Middle East residents will [...]

The department’s sales take place twice a year in April and October at Bonhams’ New Bond Street salerooms. They cover a wide range of Islamic and Indian art including pottery, metalwork and glass, ivory, jewellery and stonework. Ottoman Turkish works of art – particularly silver, textiles and Iznik pottery – make up a further section, [...]

The Dubai Sports Council on Monday donated more than Dh70 million in one of the most successful days for the Dubai Cares charity campaign.
The Dh72.8 million effort with help from renowned sports stars brought the amount raised to Dh1.258 billion. A sports auction hosted by the Dubai Sports Council (DSC) and Kraken Opus under the [...]

The famous Arco Valley Pearl, one of the world’s most historical and the second largest natural pearl, will be auctioned in Dubai next month.
The UAE Pearl Revival Committee yesterday announced that the auction would be held on November 19 in Dubai in connection with the first International Pearl Convention.
The convention is being organised to revive [...]

International fine art auction house Bonhams is to open a sales office in Duba.
Bonhams Dubai will be a joint venture with the family of former UAE Ambassador to Great Britain and Western Europe, Mohammed Mahdi Al Tajir - a prominent collector across the arts.
The first auction will include Islamic works of art and contemporary [...]

Owner of General Trading, Bin Thyab was the highest bidder at the auction organised in aid of the Dubai Cares campaign at Jumeirah Beach Hotel. He bought the number plate F/196 for Dh300,000.
The auction raised nearly Dh9 million and was added to six weeks’ worth of Salik revenue, equivalent to Dh35 million, donated by RTA.
Bin [...]

Sahara Centre, the leading family shopping and entertainment destination in the UAE and one of Sharjah’s prominent landmarks, has generated an encouraging response from the shoppers for its much-anticipated Ramadan Charity auction.
The shopping centre, one of the first malls to organise an auction for charity during the holy month of Ramadan, has seen unprecedented crowds [...]

Christie’s International, the world’s largest auction house, will offer as much as $9 million of contemporary art, including $7 million of Iranian and Arab works, at its third Dubai sale on Oct. 31.
Works by Egypt’s Ahmed Moustapha and Syrian Fateh Moudarres are among the lots, the company said. Moustapha’s “Where the Two Oceans Meet (Variant [...]