Diamond slopes sold for almost $ 800,000, bags touching the 350,000, an iconic basketball player Michael Jordan for almost one million dollars and works by world -class artists took the first international auction held in Saudi Arabia on Saturday.
The event, Organized by the Sotheby’s housebased in New York, it took place in the historic Saudi city of Diriyah, located on the outskirts of Riyadh and that has places declared World Heritage by UNESCO such as the district of Atraif, which housed the first capital of the Saudi dynasty.
This imposing site Founded in the fifteenth century It was the place chosen to host a new day for the history of Saudi Arabia, which saw how its first live international auction was celebrated thanks to the Puja ‘Origins‘, which contained articles by Fine Arts, Digital Art, jewelry and even used t -shirts of athletes.
During the day A total of 162 articles were auctionedthat the pujantes had the opportunity to Buy also in cryptocurrenciesin the midst of great expectation for the final value of works by artists like Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol and Wassily Kandinsky, among others.
According to the organizers, More than 17.2 million dollars were raised during the eventwhich attracted some 2,500 visitors already collectors from 45 countries that participated in the auction, in which almost a third of the lots were sold to buyers of Saudi Arabia.
One of the first Night surprises It was given the light installation ‘The Light Underneath’ by James Turrell, which was sold for $ 660,000 even though the initial estimate was around 180,000.
The work ‘L’Etat de Veille’, After René Magritte in 1958, he lowered the hammer to 1.2 million dollars, as well as ‘Society Woman’ by Fernando Botero and ‘Subjet to Availability’ of Banksy.
Even the ‘Fleurs’ of Picassoa drawing of simple pencil paths on paper made in 1948, was finally sold for $ 204,000, thus quadruplying its initial estimate.
The day was also marked by the sale of the painting of generative artificial intelligence data entitled ‘Machine Hallucinations – Space | Chapter II: Mars’, by Refik Anadol, which was sold for a whopping $ 900,000.
The luxury session of ‘Origins’ It began with the sale of a shirt that Michael Jordan dressed in a match of the semifinals of the Eastern Conference of the 1998 NBA playoffs, the season of ‘The Last Dance’, which rose to $ 960,000.
They also offered T -shirts used by Portuguese footballer Cristiano Ronaldowhich currently militates in the Saudi Nassr, during the group stage and quarterfinals of the 2024 Eurocup, although these reached a top price of $ 36,000.
The auction ended with the bid for several luxury accessorieslike a Cartier Crash Costa clock ($ 228,000); A pair of graff diamond earrings ($ 780,000) or an “extremely weird” Hermès Diamond Himalaya Birkin 25, which reached $ 336,000.
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