Sotheby’s Dubai was delighted to host Her Excellency Noura Al Kaabi, the UAE’s Minister of Culture and Youth, and His Excellency Essa Kazim, Governor of Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) as their Guests of Honour yesterday evening (Tuesday) at their private view of masterpieces by Botticelli and Rembrandt. They unveiled the paintings alongside Sotheby’s Chairman for the Middle East, Edward Gibbs, Head of Sotheby’s Dubai, Katia Nounou, and Sotheby’s Worldwide Co-Chairman of Old Master Paintings and Drawings, George Gordon.
The two works will be offered at auction in New York in January 2021 with a combined estimate in excess of $100 million and rank as the highest value paintings ever to be brought to the Middle East by an auction house. They are on view to the public at Sotheby’s Dubai in DIFC today, 16 December 2020 from 10am – 6pm.
