On October 1 and 2, Abu Dhabi will host the most expensive art exhibition Sotheby’s has ever staged in the Middle East. Collectively valued at around $150 million, it is also the first public fine art show the house has put on in the UAE. The six masterpieces involved were painted by Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Frida Khalo, René Magritte, Camille Pissaro, and Edvard Munch. It will take place at the private Bassam Freiha Art Foundation in Abu Dhabi’s Saadiyat Island Cultural District.

The move comes as Sotheby’s gears up to hold Abu Dhabi Collectors’ Week in November, its first series of luxury marquee sales in the emirate. “In recent months, Sotheby’s has staged a number of remarkable events in Abu Dhabi, but this exhibition represents a true milestone – our first ever public exhibition of fine art in this emirate; and the most extensive and valuable exhibition ever staged in the region by Sotheby’s,” Katia Nounoi Boueiz, head of Sotheby’s UAE, said in a statement.

Each of the works comes from “major private collections,” the house added. Munch’s (St. John’s Night) (Midsummer Night’s Eve) (1901-3) was sourced from American collector Leonard A. Lauder, while until recently, the van Gogh and Gauguin paintings hung in the Chicago home of Cindy and Jay Pritzker. [“Their] impact on the cultural life of their home city is immense, and whose renowned prize for architecture has honored many of the world’s leading architects, including Jean Nouvel, designer of the Louvre Abu Dhabi, and Frank Gehry, architect of the new Abu Dhabi arm of the Guggenheim,” Sotheby’s said.