471 Items by auctions and galleries:
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Lot 6 Bahman Mohasses (Iranian, 1931-2010)
Bahman Mohassess (1931 - 2010) 
Modern & Contemporary Middle Eastern Art 
Bahman Mohassess
01.03.1931 - 28.07.2010
Iran
Bahman Mohassess was an Iranian painter, sculptor, translator, and theatre director. His oeuvre comprises paintings, sculptures and collages. Known as "the irreverent" artist, Mohasses is said to have destroyed many of his own works, and those that become available at auction are now highly sought after. Mohassess is the most prominent artist who was openly gay in Iran, which is still stigmatized. He was the subject of the Mitra Farahani film documentary, Fifi Howls from Happiness (2013).
CHRISTIE'S
Modern & Contemporary Middle Eastern Art
Date: 24.11.2020 09:00 UTC +00:00
Number of lots in the catalog: 60
Lot 34 Azra Aghighi Bakhshayeshi (Iranian, b. 1968)
Azra Aghighi Bakhshayeshi (1968) 
Middle Eastern 20th and 21st Century Art 
Azra Aghighi Bakhshayeshi
1968
Iran
Azra Aghighi Bakhshayeshi is the only professional female calligraphic artist working in Iran. Her work explores the rich aesthetic possibilities inherent in the internal architecture of Persian script. For her, there is beauty not just in the meaning letters express but also in the form and texture of those letters. While Aghighi is inspired by religion (especially early Islamic writings), the heart of her practice is not religious.
CHRISTIE'S
Middle Eastern 20th and 21st Century Art
Date: 03.11.2021 10:00 UTC +00:00
Number of lots in the catalog: 46
Lot 42 Farhad Moshiri (Iranian, b. 1963)
Farhad Moshiri (1963) 
Middle Eastern 20th and 21st Century Art
Farhad Moshiri
1963
Iran
Farhad Moshiri is an Iranian artist currently based in Tehran. His art work is rooted in Pop art dialect with a subtle, subversive socio-political commentary. Moshiri studied fine arts at California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California, in the 1980s, where he first started experimenting with installations, video art and painting. He subsequently became well known for his ironic interpretations of hybrids between traditional Iranian forms and those of the consumerist and globalized popular culture widespread in his country. In the early 2000s, Moshiri was most readily associated with his paintings of jars, which are decorated with traditional Iranian sayings and poetic verse, written in Persian calligraphy. These monumental containers have been described as receptacles of life, memory and desire, and reflect his fascination with archaeology. His painted jars, which form a trademark of his production, look like three-dimensional objects, bursting with popular foods, drinks and desserts, with popular scripts elegantly written on their body. Moshiri is also interested in the repetition of numbers and letters in scripts for their intrinsic beauty as opposed to any literal meaning or sense they might hold.
CHRISTIE'S
Middle Eastern 20th and 21st Century Art
Date: 03.11.2021 10:00 UTC +00:00
Number of lots in the catalog: 46
