Live Auction 1242Modern & Contemporary Art
Parviz Tanavoli (Iranian, b. 1937)
Lot 152 PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION

Parviz Tanavoli (Iranian, b. 1937)

The Wall and the Script I

Closed16 March 2016

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USD 93,750

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Parviz Tanavoli (Iranian, b. 1937)
The Wall and the Script I
incised with the artist's signature, date and number 'Parviz, 05, 2/6' (on the lower left of the base)
polished bronze
25 7/8 x 16 3/8 x 7in. (65.8 x 41.5 x 18cm.)
Executed in 2005, this work is number two from an edition of six

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner.

Specialist note

'The first wall had to be built in commemoration of Farhad the Mountain Carver... Aside from Farhad being my predecessor in sculpture, he was the only sculptor who never made sculpture - or, at any rate, left any to posterity. All of this prompted me to build a glorious wall in his honour, with a tomb-like grillwork cage in the middle, with Farhad himself in the cage... All I needed to add to the work of these artists was Farhad's chest, which I would have to make broad enough to house a nightingale. Next, I had to portray the nightingale's silence as Farhad's mourning, which led me to hang a lock from his beak. Finally, I covered the wall containing Farhad with written eulogies to the master.'
(The artist, quoted in C. Pocock, Parviz Tanavoli Monograph, Dubai 2010, p. 93).