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Lot 416*

Reza Derakshani
(Iran, born 1952)
Untitled (Day and Night)

8 April 2014, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £37,500 inc. premium

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Reza Derakshani (Iran, born 1952)

Untitled (Day and Night)
oil on canvas, framed
signed "D- 07"(at the bottom), executed in 2007
230 x 115cm (90 9/16 x 45 1/4in).

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Provenance:
Property from a private collection, Dubai

"I believe that any art of quality is rooted in a spiritual source; it is universal. I have experienced it as a form of trance – or pure connected creativity – both in painting and in music. Rumi is a master of conveying this source, but Rothko and Pollock give me the same feeling in a different language. So, yes there are relationships.

Understanding the Big Question, however, is a very personal journey and the ability to render it visually does not necessarily come from ever increasing intellectual knowledge or methodical contemplation. I am not a 'spiritual artist' in the sense that I consciously recycle Persian cultural icons with metaphysical meanings, but I do believe that the act of creation must have
this natural flow which resolves in a miraculous moment where human life connects with a state beyond human reason. Pollock understood that and so did Rumi." - Reza Derakshani

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