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<\/p>\nOver half of the art may have been guaranteed to sell before this year\u2019s Baran Handwriting Impression & Calligraphy Auction even got underway in Tehran on Friday, 22 February. But the auction, no doubt, set a new record for a single sale, selling 11,769,000,000 billion tomans of art.<\/p>\n
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That mind-blowing sell eclipsed the previous record that it set during the second big contemporary auction by Baran last year. An encouraging part of what was obviously a very managed sale was that this happened at a time when Iran is under Washington\u2019s unilateral sanctions and economic hardship, as well as the fact that 46 artists set new national auction records. Of course, these were not the usual suspects like Hossein Zenderoudi or Sohrab Sepehri, although these auction house darlings all featured among the 10 most expensive lots at last year\u2019s Tehran Auction.<\/p>\n
Instead, an engraved Holy Quran was the top lot of the Friday night, selling for 7.7 billion tomans.<\/p>\n
At least 13 lots set new national records for other artists, including Mir Emad Hassani. The event, organized by Baran\u2019s founder Mahboubeh Kazemi Doulabi, sold 46 lots and some of art for sale certainly generated huge returns for the sellers:<\/p>\n Ali Akbar Khanzadeh – Holy Quran – 7.7 billion tomans<\/strong><\/p>\n Reza Mafi – Nasta\u2019ligh – 70 million tomans (mt)<\/p>\n Malek Mohammad Ghazvini – Qajari Art – 40 mt<\/p>\n Mir Emad Hassani – Calligraphy – 700 mt<\/p>\n Mohammad Hossein Emad AlKateb – Two Calligraphy Works – 24 mt and 30 mt<\/p>\n Mohammad Hossein Yazdi – Naskh Calligraphy – 30 mt<\/p>\n Sahifeh Sajjadieh Book – from 1071 HG – 190 mt<\/p>\n Kufi Manuscript – from 500 HG – 38 mt<\/p>\n Golden Calligraphy – from Qajari Era (19th century) –\u00a0 20 mt<\/p>\n Mirza Abbas Agha – Naskh Calligraphy (Qajari Era) – 25 million tm<\/p>\n Abolhassan Khan – Imam Ali (AS) Depiction – 110 mt<\/p>\n Gholamreza Esfahani – Calligraphy – 48 mt<\/p>\n Hassan Zarrin Ghalam – Calligraphy – 250 mt<\/p>\n Mirza Amou Tehrani – Qajari Inscription – 310 mt<\/p>\n Ali Akbar Kaveh – Nasta\u2019ligh Calligraphy – 50 mt<\/p>\n t goes without saying that 19 lots didn\u2019t sell at this year\u2019s event. True, the link between price and value is hard to nail down anywhere in the<\/p>\n art world, but not at this very top end of the contemporary market at Baran\u2019s third auction. At any rate, ultra-rich buyers were prepared to support them in these hard economic times.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.honarbaan.com\/En\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/haraj0-300x200.jpg\")
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Source: HonarOnline<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"