Lot 345
  • 345

Sohrab Sepehri

Estimate
45,000 - 60,000 GBP
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Description

  • Sohrab Sepehri
  • Untitled
  • signed in Farsi 
  • oil on canvas
  • 89 by 89cm.; 35 1/8 by 35 1/8 in.
  • Executed circa 1965.

Provenance

Borghese Gallery, Tehran
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner in 1965

Exhibited

Tehran, Borghese Gallery, Sohrab Sepehri, 1965 

Condition

This work is in very good condition. Some very faint hairline scratches, most probably inherent to the artist's creative process. Colours: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, with the overall hues being slighter darker in the original work.
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Catalogue Note

When knowledge
Still nestled by springs,
Man
Indulged himself in his azure philosophy
In the delicate indolence of a meadow.
His thoughts flew with the bird.
He breathed with trees.

Sohrab Sepehri, The Flow of Water