Iranian Student With $750 Turns Billionaire Made by Islamic Art

Iranian Student With $750 Turns Billionaire Made by Islamic Art
March 30 (Bloomberg) — Nasser David Khalili stands in an exhibition hall in St. Petersburg’s Winter Palace, gazing at an 18th-century painted enamel of flowers that’s one of 25,000 works of art he owns.

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For the love of art: Iranian student with $US750 turns billionaire

For the love of art: Iranian student with $US750 turns billionaire
Nasser David Khalili stands in an exhibition hall in St. Petersburg’s Winter Palace, gazing at an 18th-century painted enamel of flowers that’s one of 25,000 works of art he owns. “I’d have paid anything for it,” he says, appraising this miniature by Frenchman Philippe Parpette. “There’s no way I’d have let anybody else buy it.”

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