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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION, NEW YORK

Nasser Assar
IRANIAN
UNTITLED 
Estimate
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12,000 — 18,000
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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION, NEW YORK

Nasser Assar
IRANIAN
UNTITLED 
Estimate
Double Dagger
Indicates that the lot is being sold whilst subject to Temporary Importation, and that VAT is due at the reduced rate
12,000 — 18,000
GBP
LOT SOLD. 15,000 GBP
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Details & Cataloguing

20th Century Art / Middle East

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Nasser Assar
B. 1928
IRANIAN
UNTITLED 
signed N. Assar '79
watercolour and ink on paper laid on canvas 
104.5 by 76.2cm.; 41 3/8 by 30in.
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Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner in the early 1980s

Catalogue Note

Q: "Can we say Nasser that you are a landscape artist? In your paintings we do not see any distribution of light neither a theater of shadows. Neither a story is told, nor a reference to the world. However, the word 'Landscape' seems appropriate? 

A: In the adventure of the arts in the West, the function of landscapes had a varied development and took different directions before becoming an independent subject. It is certain that in my paintings, all elements represented, depict nature. But is the aim to represent a landscape, like Claude de Lorrain used to? Certainly not. At a certain period, people associated my painting to Caspar David Friedrich's ones. [...] It is very simple: I want to note, represent, basically paint in the simplest manner what i see - this means not only the appearance of things but what transpires immediately and its simplicity."

Nasser Assar quoted in an interview between Nasser Assar and Jerome Thelot in: Yves Bonnefoy, Philippe Jaccottet, Roger Munier, Jean-Paul Avice, Nasser Assar, Paris 2016, pp. 94 - 96. 

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20th Century Art / Middle East

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