LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil and aluminum on canvas

Measurements:

90.55 in. (230.00 cm.) (height) by 78.74 in. (200.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed in Farsi, l.r.; dated in Farsi, l.r.

Exhibited:

Museum of Sacred Arts, Paris, 1967. Grand Palais, Paris, 1973. American Institute of Architecture, Costa Mesa, California 1996. Barbican Center, London, 2000. Museum of National, Folk & Popular Art, Rome, 2000. Meridian International Center, Washington DC. 2001. Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, A Retrospective, 2002. Christies, Iranian Contemporary, London, 2002. Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, A Spiritual Vision Tehran, 2003. The British Museum, Word into Art, 2006.

Literature:

"Pioneers of Iranian Modern Art Massoud Arabshahi", 2001, catalogue of exhibition held at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art. "A Spiritual Vision", 2003, catalogue of exhibition held at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, p. 106. Venetia Porter, 2006, "Word into Art-Artist of the Modern Middle East", London, the British Museum Press, P.93.