Live Auction 8065Modern and Contemporary Arab,Iranian and Turkish Art Part II
PARVIZ TANAVOLI (IRANIAN, B. 1937)
Lot 211 PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION

PARVIZ TANAVOLI (IRANIAN, B. 1937)

Heech on chair

Closed30 October 2013

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USD 102,500

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PARVIZ TANAVOLI (IRANIAN, B. 1937)
Heech on chair
signed, numbered and dated 'parviz 07 2/20' (on the base)
fibreglass
37½ x 21 7/8 x 27¾in. (94.5 x 55.5 x 69.5cm.)
Executed in 2007, this work is number two from an edition of twenty

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner.

Specialist note

'I have always been fascinated by the culture of my Persian inheritance: poetry, architecture and other arts... We have had art in every century in every place throughout the history of Iran. The three-dimensionality of Islamic architecture, which is not just seen in the building themselves, but also in details such as doors, doorknobs, grill-work...to me, these were all forms of sculpture as good as any in the West.'
(The artist quoted in H. Amirsadeghi (ed.), Different Sames New Perspectives in Contemporary Iranian art, London 2009, p. 274).