"A late Picasso painting on cardboard, Paysage (1965), carries an estimate of $2m to $3m. The work depicts the French Riviera landscape around the village of Mougins where the artist spent his later years with his last wife Jacqueline Roque. Anish Kapoor's concave mirror sculpture, Untitled (2005), also goes under the hammer (est. $600,000-$800,000) along with Andy Warhol's Disquieting Muses (After de Chirico), 1982 (est. $800,000-$1.2m) and his complete set of four screenprints of Muhammad Ali he made in 1978 (est. $300,000-$500,000)."
"Coffee Shop in Madina Road (1968; est. $150,000-$200,000) by Safeya Binzagr, dubbed the "spiritual mother of contemporary Saudi art", comes from the collection of Alberto Mestas García, the Ambassador of Spain to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from October 1966 to May 1976, and his wife, Mercedes Suárez de Tangil Guzmán. A work by another key Saudi artist, Mohammed Al Saleem, is a prime example of Horizonism, an abstract style inspired by the shifting sands of Riyadh ( Untitled, 1989; est. $150,000-$200,000)."
Sotheby's will hold Origins II on 31 January in Diriyah, outside Riyadh, timed ahead of the Art Basel Qatar fair in February. The sale gathers more than 70 works across categories including ancient sculpture, 20th-century design and prints, Middle Eastern art, Modern and contemporary works, Latin American art, and Modern and contemporary South Asian art. Headline lots include a late Picasso on cardboard (Paysage, 1965; est. $2m–$3m), Anish Kapoor's Untitled (2005; est. $600,000–$800,000), and Andy Warhol prints including Disquieting Muses (1982) and a four-print Muhammad Ali set. Important regional works feature Safeya Binzagr's Coffee Shop in Madina Road (1968) and Mohammed Al Saleem's Untitled (1989), an example of Horizonism.
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