Assadour

Private Collection, Beirut (acquired directly from the artist in the 1970s) 

This work is in very good condition. A minute dent of 2cm to the bottom right edge of the canvas can be noticed, most probably due to a surface inconsistency of the stretcher. colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are accurate.
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“…With the help of simple ele­ments and geo­met­rical atoms, his aim is to suc­ceed in drawing up a time/space, ambiguous and with sev­eral mean­ings through dis­crep­an­cies and dis­con­ti­nu­ities of planes and col­orful areas, a pro­ce­dure which goes back to the Safavid minia­tur­ists. The world seems to be scat­tered in a thou­sand pieces, with each piece care­fully laid out and painted.”

Joseph Tarrab cited in: Assadour: Painting / Motherland, 1995