Qatar’s top art collector under house arrest
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He also set a world record at Sotheby’s a year earlier when he paid �507,500 (around Dh3.5 billion) for Gustave LeGray’s mid-19th-century seascape, Grande Vague de Sete. Where he got the money from? Public funds of course!
Sheikh Saud Al-Thani is a second cousin of Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, the ruling Emir of Qatar. As chairman of Qatar’s National Council for Culture, Arts and Heritage (NCCAH), al-Thani has been buying art on behalf of the Emir for the past eight years, helping transform Qatar into a world-class cultural centre complete with five new museums.
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4 Comments on “Qatar’s top art collector under house arrest”
I think the use of public funds to buy artwork is way better than other stuff public funding goes on. Wow, I wish I had the money to be “one of the bigger buyers in the world”…
Do you think you could help me out? Im looking for art pieces that are representative of the Qatari Culture? or in any case art such as paintings, folk art, architecture….but not the modern american art but rather art with the Middle east feeling to them.
If you know any could you email me.
thanks
Samira.
Salvador Dali painted many versions of “Persistence of Memory” around 1931 and our favourite one naturally is this one which shows Salvador Dali’s pet llama which he obviously called “Dali Llama”.It is displayed in the Museum of Llama Art in Mount Lehman, British Columbia.