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Grandeur and Luxury at Paris Biennale“Phoenix Ancient Art of New York and Geneva centered its spectacular booth around a Roman mosaic. The work was being competed for by two collectors, an American and a Belgian, according to Hicham Aboutaam, co-owner, with his brother Ali, of the gallery. Phoenix sold a marble head of Emperor Caracella to a European collector for more than €1 million. ¨The most expensive works are selling,¨said Hicham Aboutaam. In a room filled with gold jewelry, the gallery offered an unusual double-portrait Roman brooch from the 1st century A.D. depicting Caligula and his grandmother Antonia the Younger. They also had a number of very wearable pieces, including a Hellenistic gold-and-garnet necklace-and-ring set priced at €105,000.”
Amy Page, ARTINFO