YAGHOUB EMDADIAN (IRANIAN, B. 1948)
Lot 122

YAGHOUB EMDADIAN (IRANIAN, B. 1948)

In the Moonlight

Closed31 October 2007

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USD 49,000

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YAGHOUB EMDADIAN (IRANIAN, B. 1948)
In the Moonlight
each signed and dated in Farsi and dated '2007'(lower left); numbered respecitvely '1', '2' and '3' and again in Farsi (on the reverse)
acrylic on canvas
Left and right panels: 39¼ x 39¼in. (99.5 x 99.5cm.); centre panel: 39¼ x 47in. (99.5 x 119.5cm.)
Overall: 39¼ x 125½in. (99.5 x 318.5cm.)
Painted in 2007

Specialist note

Yaghoub Emdadian's paintings are highly abstracted landscapes, where vast spaces are defined in terms of pure forms and variations of colour. Space is arranged in a way that recalls the Persian miniature: unlike the Western depiction of perspective toward a vanishing point, the more distant the location the higher up it is in the composition.
Along the top of Emdadian's paintings one often sees small shapes- trees, buildings, figures. They seem to hang in the far distance, separated from the viewer by large dominant squares of pure colour, which lend a feeling of immensity to this notion of space.