MF Hussain's sketch gets top price

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Dubai, Mar 12 (UNI) An untitled self-portrait by celebrated Indian artist Maqbool Fida Hussain fetched the highest price at the Gulf Art Fair here while the highest priced piece of art did not sell.

Damien Hirst's Spot Mini, a car owned by the Saatchi Collection and insured for 2 million dollars, did not sell while Husain's self-portrait topped the list with 130,000 dollars.

This was the first international art fair in West Asia and attracted galleries, including London's Albion, New York's Max Lang and Seoul's Gallery Hyundai.

The idea was to tap into some of the 500 billion dollars of oil revenue the Gulf earned last year.

Sales were ''better than expected'', said Roshini Vadehra, the executive director of Grosvenor Vadehra, Emirates Today reported.