Bita Vakili; Dancing Woman and $45,000 "Dreaming New York"

Bita Vakili, an Iranian female painter, sold her most expensive work to date, "Dreaming New York," for $45,000 at Christie's Dubai auction on April 18, 2012. Vakili's departure from her previous genre of painting, for which she was well-known up until that point, distinguishes this piece.

Bita Vakili; From Christie's Record to Contemporary Abstraction

For the past few years, Bita Vakili, an Iranian painter with a remarkable track record in Middle Eastern auctions, has been moving her works from purely abstract themes to figurative ones on her well-known abstract platform