Photo © Phillips — view this lot on Phillips ↗Black 4, 2011
Oil · Linen
Phillips · Jun 30, 2023£124,460 ≈ $157,566 ≈ €145,009Sign up free to see price
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It Happened and It Never Did
Ali Banisadr (Iranian, b. 1976) · 2011
£345,000 price realized incl. premium
≈ $456,780≈ €391,347
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- Medium
- Oil · Paintings all oil results →As published: “oil on linen, diptych”
- Support
- Linen
- Signed / inscribed
- Each signed and dated 'Ali BANiSADR 2011' on the overlap
- Category
- Oil paintings
- Dimensions
- each 182.9 x 137.2 cm (72 x 54 in.) overall 182.9 x 274.3 cm (72 x 108 in.)
- Auction house
- Phillips
- Sale
- 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale (UK010518)
- Date
- June 26, 2018
- Location
- London
- Lot
- 178
- Estimate
- £220,000 – £280,000 (≈ $291,280 – $370,720) (≈ €249,554 – €317,615)
- Source
- Auction house phillips.com ↗Retrieved Sep 27, 2026
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