20th Century Art / Middle East
20th Century Art / Middle East
PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION, LOS ANGELES
SOHRAB SEPEHRI | UNTITLED (FROM THE TREE TRUNKS SERIES)
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October 22, 02:26 PM GMT
Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 GBP
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Property from a Distinguished Private Collection, Los Angeles
SOHRAB SEPEHRI
1928-1980
Iranian
UNTITLED (FROM THE TREE TRUNKS SERIES)
signed in Farsi
oil on canvas
120.5 by 199.6cm.; 47½ by 78⅝in.
Executed circa 1970-1979.
Private Collection, Tehran
Private Collection, Los Angeles (gifted by the above to the present owner in the 1980s)
“If you’re looking for me
I am beyond nowhere […]
Beyond nowhere there is a place desire opens
like an umbrella,
breeze like thirst sinks deep into the leaves.
Bells of rain carol fresh watery tunes
about how lonely humans are here
where the shadows of tree trunks stream into
endlessness.
If you are looking for me,
come soft and quietly, lest you crack the glass
heart
that cups my loneliness.”
Sohrab Sepehri, cited in: Sohrab Sepehri (Translated by Karim Ali and Mohammed Jafar Mahallati), The Oasis of Now: Selected Poems by Sohrab Sepehri, Rochester 2013.