Sale 9817
London, South Kensington
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7 April 2004
Price realised
GBP 956
Estimate
A Tabriz carpet, North-West Persia The light rust field with overall design of bold polychrome palmettes, floral and leafy vine together with cloudbands, in an indigo border of similar design between ivory floral arabesque stripes, outer reciprocal skittle-pattern and plain stripes, localized wear mainly on the field, small moth damage to the pile on the edge of one end 414cm. x 312cm.(13ft.7in. x 10ft.3in.)
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Offered to benefit a new scholarship initiative from Bennington College, this work distils the unique form of abstraction for which the artist would become famous
Ahead of the sale of portraits of four different muses, we focus on the women the artist came to depend on so passionately