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Lot 110R
A maiden with an elderly sage, by Hossein Behzad (1894-1968) Iran, dated 1312sh/August-September 1933
12 November 2024, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £5,760 inc. premium
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A maiden with an elderly sage, by Hossein Behzad (1894-1968)
Iran, dated 1312sh/August-September 1933
Iran, dated 1312sh/August-September 1933
gouache and gold on paper, signed and dated centre left, two panels containing text in nasta'liq script within cloudbands on a gold ground, illuminated outer borders finely decorated with naturalistic wild animals in their natural habitat on a dark blue ground
435 x 310 mm.
435 x 310 mm.
Footnotes
Provenance
Private UK collection: presented by the artist to Dr Issa Sadiq (1894-1978), and thence by descent.
The painting is signed: 'Miniature of Behzad Shahrivar 1312sh (August-September 1933)'. The text at lower left consists of two couplets from a ghazal of Hafiz. It also bears the note: 'In the name of the scholar Dr Sadiq A'lam'.
Hossein Behzad was born in Tehran in 1894, the son of a qalamdan designer. He studied Safavid painting and his work is deeply influenced by that style, in particular the major painters of the 17th Century such as Reza Abbasi and Mu'in Mussavir. In 1935 he went to Paris to study European painting and as a result his work combines the miniature technique with perspective and naturalistic depiction. He was highly influenced by the great works of Persian literature, notably Firdausi's Shahnama and the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
'Issa Sadiq (1894-1978) was the Minister of Education and a senator under Mohamed Reza Pahlavi. He was a prominent university professor and taught in Tehran and at the Sorbonne, Paris.
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