Lot 108: Reza Lavasani (Iranian, b. 1962)

Reza Lavasani (Iranian, b. 1962)
Horse
signed and dated 'Reza Lavasani_08' and signed and dated in Farsi (lower left of left panel)
oil and metallic paint paint on canvas, diptych
each 70¾ x 51 1/8in (180 x 130cm.); overall 70¾in. (180 x 260cm.)
Painted in 2008

This lot offered for sale is subject to a 5% import duty on the importation value levied at the time of collection/shipment within the UAE.
Working in a meticulous technique, using metallic colours and with an emphasis on abstract pattern akin to manuscript illumination,but portraying turbulent subjects such as waves or fire, Reza Lavassani's work is characterized by a tension between the ordered and chaotic. His use of certain motifs from the canon of Persian minature painting (the almost Far-Eastern cloud scrolls in the background for example) give this a timeless and particularly Iranian context, here juxtaposed with the furturistic form of the horse.