Beirut
Etel Adnan, the Lebanese-American who died at the age of 96 on November 14, 2021, in Paris, was discovered late thanks to an exhibition at Documenta in Kassel in 2012. Since then, museums have been snapping her up and the market is racing , even if her record remains below the result obtained by Fahrelnissa Zeid (1901-1991), whose canvas was sold for 2.7 million dollars this year, making the Turkish-Jordanian, the first artist from the Middle East to benefit from an exhibition in New York in 1950 and the first woman exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London in 1954, the region's best-selling female artist.
"There is clearly something going on
," says Farouk Abillama, founder of the auction house FA Auctions in Beirut.
In recent years, the market has paid more attention to Arab women artists, especially Lebanese.”
The prices follow: in 2010, the first paintings by Etel Adnan offered at auction were estimated between 200 and 400 euros.
One of them…
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