—Beyond Rare™ Tender 2023
The Art Series 01
Introducing Rio Tinto’s Beyond Rare™ Tender: The Art Series. A unique event that showcases the most extraordinarily rare masterpieces of the natural world – fancy coloured diamonds.
The 2023 collection, Born of this World, is a curation of 48 diamond lots showcasing nature’s most potent colour spectrum. With artful composition, the collection unites pink and red Argyle Diamonds™ from the rocky wilderness of the remote East Kimberley region of Western Australia, with intense yellow diamonds from Rio Tinto’s Diavik Diamond Mine, located beneath a frozen lake in the Barren Lands of Northern Canada.
Each gem representing esteemed provenance, careful custody and infinite rarity.
Each Masterpiece of the collection is accompanied by bespoke art created by Western Australian artist Sam Price, inspired by surreal chain of earthly events that led to the birth of nature’s most exquisite works.
87 EXCEPTIONAL FANCY COLOURED DIAMONDS, TOTALLING 29.96 CARATS.