DUBAI—A month after
Christie's in Dubai sold Iranian artist
Parviz Tanavoli's
The Wall (Oh Persepolis) for $2.84 million, setting an auction record for a Middle Eastern artist, Dubai-based broker and private equity company
Daman Investments PSC has started a 50 million dirham ($13.6 million) fund to buy Middle Eastern art, reports Bloomberg. "Dubai and the United Arab Emirates are at the very center of a new awareness of the emergence of an Arab art renaissance,'' said chief executive officer
Shehab Gargash in a statement.