Live Auction 1239Modern & Contemporary Art
Parviz Kalantari (Iranian, b. 1931)
Lot 87 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION 

Parviz Kalantari (Iranian, b. 1931)

Oasis

Closed20 October 2015

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USD 43,750

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Parviz Kalantari (Iranian, b. 1931)
Oasis
signed and dated in Farsi (lower left)
oil and straw on canvas
45¼ x 91in. (115 x 231cm.)
Executed in 2007

Private Collection, Tehran.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

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'As hard as I tried, I could not feel any emotional link to the Swiss landscape they asked me to paint. All that beautiful landscape was just a colour postcard to me. The truth is, I can only paint the earthy landscapes of this land which is my own. I'm in love with this earth, this dust which I got to know on my trips to the desert'.
(Parviz Kalantari quoted in 2008).