CIRCA 1930

The anonymous note on the reverse of the photograph implores Hagop to respond to the writer's letter, prevailing upon him that the rug in question is a 'series work' which should 'not be ignored'. Judging from the photograph, the rug required quite extensive restoration, including repair along several cuts and substantial areas of reweaving. Though the owner may have been convinced that the rug was of great importance, judging from the photograph and the attached fragment it seems to be a fairly unremarkable 19th century Persian rug.

This was part of a large group of correspondence and documents which Farrow collected to better understand the career of Hagop Kapoudjian. Much of this concerned his career as a restorer in Paris in the late 1920s and 1930s, to which this obviously relates. In the course of his career Hagop took on work for great collectors like Calouste Gulbenkian and Hagop Kevorkian, as well as the Government of Iran. Whether he took on this commission is not recorded.