File:A Persian beauty offers a cup to a Shaykh, signed Hossein Behzad (1894-1964), Iran, circa 1920-30.jpg
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[edit]DescriptionA Persian beauty offers a cup to a Shaykh, signed Hossein Behzad (1894-1964), Iran, circa 1920-30.jpg |
English: A PERSIAN BEAUTY OFFERS A CUP TO A SHAYKH
SIGNED HOSSEIN BEHZAD (1894-1964), IRAN, CIRCA 1920-30 Transparent pigments on ivory or ivorine panel, signed in the lower left, framed and glazed 16 x 9.5cm. Hossein Behzad was the great innovator of Iranian art in the middle of the twentieth century. His early work, such as the present painting, was in the style of the old masters of Persian painting of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, such as Kamal al-Din Behzad and Reza 'Abbasi. In 1934 he left Tehran for Paris and stayed for thirteen months, during which time he studied various Eastern and Western painting styles at the Louvre, Guimet Museum and Versailles. During this trip he developed a completely new style of miniature painting, which fused aspects of traditional Persian painting with contemporary trends from the West. Through this new style he hoped to save miniature painting from oblivion. To celebrate the millennium of Avicenna, in 1953 he held an exhibition at the Iran Bastan Museum. This caused a sensation and was seen by many international visitors. Soon after, and to much critical acclaim, he held an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris (sponsored by the French government) and several exhibitions in the Library of Congress in the United States. Other works by Behzad sold at Christie's, London, 11 October 2005, lot 139 and Christie's, 31 October 2007, lot 73 and lot 74. For further discussion on the artist and a large illustrated folio by him see Christie's, London, 27 April 2016, lot 134. |
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