Today’s 20th Century Art / Middle East auction brought £4.8 million / $5.8 million – the highest total since the introduction of the sale as a regular fixture of the London auction calendar in 2016. The sale was led by a record for any Saudi artist ever to be offered at auction.
Born in 1939, Mohammed Al Saleem was one of Saudi Arabia’s preeminent modern artists, founding a multipurpose, not-for-profit institution to provide a…