Dubai-Sana
The world's largest canvas sold for $ 62 million in Dubai, making it the second most expensive painting sold at auction by a living artist.
Reuters reported that the painting is called "The Journey of Humanity" and it is the work of the British painter Sasha Jefri and registered in the Guinness Book of Records as the largest painting on canvas in the world and was drawn on a large piece of cloth on the floor of the ballroom of the Atlantis Hotel in Dubai over a period of seven months during the pandemic of the virus Corona and it was divided into 70 pieces for sale.
Jefri, who was residing in the UAE when the general isolation measures were imposed due to the Coronavirus, put the concept of painting around two main topics, communication and isolation, and he used 1065 paintbrushes and 6300 liters of paint to color them.
The painter Jefri aims, through selling the painting, which covers an area of 1980 square meters, to raise 30 million dollars to allocate the proceeds to charitable work.
The painting was bought by André Abdoun, a Frenchman who lives in Dubai.
And sold the most expensive painting by a living artist at auction was by the artist David Hockney, which was painted in 1972 as Portrait of the artist "Swimming with Two Figures", which was sold in 2018 for $ 90.3 million.