Lot 154: Yaghoub Emdadian (Iranian, b. 1948)

Yaghoub Emdadian (Iranian, b. 1948)
Untitled
signed and dated in Farsi (lower left)
acrylic on canvas
71 5/8 x 71 5/8in. (182.3 x 182.3cm.)
Painted in 2003

PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED UAE COLLECTION

Yaghoub Emdadian's paintings are highly abstracted landscapes, where vast spaces are defined in terms of pure forms and variations of colour. Space is arranged in a way that recalls the Persian miniature: unlike the Western depiction of perspective toward a vanishing point, the more distant the location the higher up it is in the composition.
Along the top of Emdadian's paintings one often sees small shapes- trees, buildings, figures. They seem to hang in the far distance, separated from the viewer by large dominant squares of pure colour, which lend a feeling of immensity to this notion of space.