Lot Essay
The edition size is 25.
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Persepolis Bull, Iran, 1949
Details
HORST P. HORST (1906-1999)
Persepolis Bull, Iran, 1949
platinum-palladium print, printed 1985-1995
blindstamp (in the margin); signed, titled, dated, numbered '#774' and 'AP' in pencil (on the verso)
17½ x 15in. (44.3 x 38cm.)
Persepolis Bull, Iran, 1949
platinum-palladium print, printed 1985-1995
blindstamp (in the margin); signed, titled, dated, numbered '#774' and 'AP' in pencil (on the verso)
17½ x 15in. (44.3 x 38cm.)
Literature
Horst, p. 285; Sixty, pl. 78; Platinum, [pl. 21]
Further details
This head of a bull supported a beam in the Palace of Persepolis, on the plain between Isfahan and Shiraz in Iran. It was built by Darius the Great and destroyed by Alexander the Great. The head had fallen to the ground and lay among the ruins of the Palace.