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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 23, 2022 | Bonhams | London | Modern and Contemporary Middle Eastern Art including Baghdadiyat Part III | 37 | $****** - ****** | DELBODNAHAN SHOD |
paintings
78 x 100 cm (30.71 x 39.37 in)
acrylic and pigment on canvas, framed
signed "Zenderoudi" and dated "67" (lower left)
Property from a private European collection
"In my early work, only black and white were important. I preferred to work in these two colours only, but in folk arts, colour is the determining factor. We know how well this aspect of colour was used in tazieh"s - passion plays. Red had a negative effect and is used for garments and identification of felons. White and green have a positive effect and are used for the cloak of saints. In Spanish bull fighting stadiums bulls get aggressive and attack when facing a red fabric. Green has a pacifying effect... I first studied the science of colors and then reached a method of how to make use of them in my works. The use of color in my paintings had and has a philosophical origin."
- Zenderoudi
The present work, composed in the late 1960"s is an extremely rare transitional painting where the crowded iconography of the early works is fused with a greater focus on larger letter-forms which would come to characterise Zenderoui"s works in the subsequent decade
Letterforms are given new life, freed from the classical monotone. Words are rendered with bold, colourful letters atypical of academic calligraphy, they fan elegantly outwards circumambulation an intertwined nucleus; the cyclical format and fractal quality of the composition harks to the meditative practises favoured by the Sufis,
Measured but spontaneous, technical yet effuse, Zenderoudi" manipulates Persian calligraphy with effortless ease, boasting a visual scope which faithfully captures the salient elements of Iran"s traditional popular religious aesthetic. Rendered with the use of rich and vibrant colours, his canvases replicate the tonal and textural qualities of the votive art so common to the Iranian urban landscape.
Almost rhythmic in its grace, balance and composition, the present work is one of the finest examples of Zenderoudi"s work from this period
The present lot is accompanied by a Certificate from Zenderoudi and will be included in his upcoming Catalogue raisonne
Charles Hossein Zenderoudi (Iran, born 1937)
DELBODNAHAN SHOD
acrylic and pigment on canvas, framed
signed "Zenderoudi" and dated "67" (lower left), executed in 1967
78 x 100cm (30 11/16 x 39 3/8in).
