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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SBSVC, post: 274278, member: 136&quot;]Monif apparently <i>did</i> sell from his gallery, but he also loaned things to museums often. It looks as if he specialized to some degree in Islamic art and manuscripts.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here, for example, is a provenance mention from a Sotheby&#039;s auction catalogue:</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="4"><i>...were with H.K. Monif in New York, whence the majority of those in North American collections originated</i></font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">from: </font></p><p><font size="4"><a href="http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2011/c-welch-part-ii-l11227/lot.33.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2011/c-welch-part-ii-l11227/lot.33.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2011/c-welch-part-ii-l11227/lot.33.html</a></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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