Alison Collins, Founder of Dubai’s First Fine Art Gallery, Dies at 79

Alison Collins, founder of Dubai’s first fine art gallery, died this past week at age 79 in Sicily, the National reported on Thursday.
Collins moved from her native England to Dubai in 1976, just five years after the United Arab Emirates was founded. Though she had a career as an interior designer, Collins wound up transforming her villa into an informal art salon after English painter Julian Barrow asked to exhibit his work there. Following the success of the exhibition, Collins began sho