Live Auction 8058Modern and Contemporary Arab, Iranian and Turkish Art Part II
Assadour (Lebanese, b. 1943)
Lot 191

Assadour (Lebanese, b. 1943)

Paysage aux deux coupoles

Closed18 April 2012

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USD 12,500

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Assadour (Lebanese, b. 1943)
Paysage aux deux coupoles
signed twice and dated 'Assadour/2004/ASSADOUR' (lower right); signed twice, titled, inscribed and dated 'ASSADOUR/Paysage aux deux coupoles/tempera sur papier marouflé sur bois/2004/Assadour' (on the reverse)
tempera on paper laid down on canvas
31½ x 23 5/8in. (80 x 60cm.)
Executed in 2004

Specialist note

'Assadour the secret, prince of encryption, with a tempered yet passionate nature, appears to be the most meticulous master of images, which he interlocks, untangles, clots, separates again and finally fuses into one same substance. His layout is ingeniously inscrutable yet nothing has been randomly placed. Everything is so precise in this chaos which is very well thought out, that Assadour does not seem to destroy all the codes but rather substitutes them with his own.' (Gérard Xuriguera, ASSADOUR, Paris, 2003).