Auction Dates:
- Live Sale: 6 November 2025, Christie's King Street, London
- Online Sale: 28 October - 11 November 2025
Following the record-breaking auctions of 2023 and 2024, this evening sale is led by 20 exceptional works from the esteemed Dalloul Collection, Beirut, Lebanon. Silsila - meaning 'chain' or 'sequence' in Arabic - marks the next chapter in the evolution of the Dalloul Collection, and Dr Basel's Dalloul's collaboration with Christie's.
Renowned for its extraordinary breath and depth, the Dalloul Collection offers a captivating journey through Arab art history, paying tribute to the region's rich cultural heritage and bold diversity. The twenty highlights featured in the auction embody this vision showcasing masterpieces by Mohamed Melehi, Mahmoud Saïd, Dia Al-Azzawi and Marwan. The collection is widely acknowledged to hold important works with a particular focus on Labanon and Palestine, the ancestral homelands of the Dalloul family, exemplified by the works of Huguette Caland, Paul Guiragossian, Samia Halaby and Kamal Boullata.
The Live sale will also feature important works from other notable private collections including evocative homages to the landscape: La colline de Mekarzel by Mahmoud Saïd, Soukhour Meyrouba,(The Rocks of Meyrouba) by Aref El Rayess, and Untitled by Etel Adnan.
Mahmoud Saïd, La colline de Mekarzel - Lebanese landscape, est. £60,000-80,000
- Aref El Rayess, Soukhour Meyrouba - serene village scene, est. £100,000-150,000
- Paul Guiragossian, Automne - large-scale emotional piece, est. £120,000-180,000
- Samia Halaby, Gardenia - geometric abstraction, est. £50,000-70,000
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