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By Giacomo Crescenzi, Egyptian Streets In April 2013 the Egyptian artist Chant Avedissian, 62, set a new record for an auction sale of a living Arab artist. “Icons of the Nile” was sold at a staggering $ 1,565,000 at Sotheby’s contemporary art auction held in Katara cultural village in Doha. If you come across this piece of information you may feel proud to be Egyptian, and you should be. But though this sale is an indicator that the art scene…
