On Friday, January 17, Parsian Azadi Hotel in northern part of Tehran played host to the 12th Tehran Auction – a two-hour event during which 118 contemporary artworks by more than 100 Iranian artists went under the hammer, grossing 310,717,000,000 billion rials. The collection includes precious paintings and sculptures by renowned deceased and living artists, including Hossein Zenderoudi, Parvaneh Etemadi, Parviz Kalantari, Abbas Kiarostami, Aydin Aghdashloo and Jazeh Tabatabai.
