Gulf Art Fair

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Charles Saatchi’s Mini-Cooper with Damien Hirst's signature colored dots on view at the Pekin Fine Arts booth

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“We just brought it over to see what the interest is,” said Hochman, known as an active buying scout for Saatchi.

Apart from the Mini-Cooper, Pekin’s booth was devoted to a solo display of strong abstract works by Chinese artist Aniwar.

But in terms of newborn art, one of the most dynamic works viewed was at London’s Albion Gallery, showing brand-new video work by the French Algerian artist Kader Attia. The startling black-and-white images represented a wall of pristinely stacked sugar cubes drenched in oil—not the olive or peanut type, but just good old crude.

The gallery was waiting for Attia to arrive so they could price the fresh-out-of-the-crate work.