SAFAVID SHIRAZ, IRAN, CIRCA 1560-1580

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SAFAVID SHIRAZ, IRAN, CIRCA 1560-1580
An illustration from a Shahnama of Firdawsi, opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, set within gold and blue rules, the buff margins plain, the verso with 25ll. black nasta'liq arranged in four columns, heading in red, set within gold and blue rules within plain buff paper margins, mounted, framed and glazed
Painting 8 x 5 1⁄8 in. (20.2 x 12.9cm.); folio 12 x 7 ¾in. (30.5 x 19.7cm.)

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Collection of André Lhote (d.1962), Paris, thence by descent to the present owner

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Lot Essay

André Lhote (1885-1962) was a French Cubist painter, writer and theorist. He trained in Bordeaux and moved to painting in Paris in 1905, but his greatest success came as an educator. He tought at various Paris art schools before he founded the Académie Montparnasse in 1922 and taught dozens of prominent artists including Henri Cartier-Bresson and Lino Enea Spilimbergo. A Qajar oil painting also from the collection of André Lhote was sold in these Rooms, 24 October 2024, lot 83.

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