March 2015. Christie’s Dubai, “Middle East” Auction, United Arab Emirates. A painting by Behjat Sadr (1924-2009) is on sale. When I see the price rise from one second to the next, I think back with irony to the monograph we published with Zamân Books in 2014. She who was inspired by oil spills in her black paintings on aluminium, in post-kinetic, neo-industrial abstract style.