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Auction archive: Lot number 1001

PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST REZA 'ABBASI

Estimate
US$120,000 - US$180,000
Price realised:
US$588,500
Auction archive: Lot number 1001

PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST REZA 'ABBASI

Estimate
US$120,000 - US$180,000
Price realised:
US$588,500
Beschreibung:

PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST REZA 'ABBASI BY MU'IN MUSAVVIR, ISFAHAN, IRAN, SIGNED AND DATED 5 SAFAR AH 1087/19 APRIL 1676 AD Gouache heightened with gold and silver on paper, signed and dated on the upper left side of the page, ruled borders, applied blue paper margin, laid down on thin card, reverse plain, mounted, framed and glazed, collection label on reverse of frame Painting 7 ¾ x 4 ½ in. (19.7 x 11.4 cm.) Provenance Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar as part of an album given to the geographer J. Petermann, 1855. F. Engel-Gros, Fifaille, Switzerland, sold Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, May 3-June 1, 1921, lot 252d. Parish-Watson & Co., New York, Nov. 1930-31. Emile Tabbagh, Paris, sold New York, American Art Association-Anderson Galleries, Inc., Jan. 3-4, 1936, lot 73. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, New York. Acquired from the estate of the above December 1960.

Auction archive: Lot number 1001
Auction:
Datum:
11 May 2018 - 11 May 2018
Auction house:
Christie's
New York
Beschreibung:

PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST REZA 'ABBASI BY MU'IN MUSAVVIR, ISFAHAN, IRAN, SIGNED AND DATED 5 SAFAR AH 1087/19 APRIL 1676 AD Gouache heightened with gold and silver on paper, signed and dated on the upper left side of the page, ruled borders, applied blue paper margin, laid down on thin card, reverse plain, mounted, framed and glazed, collection label on reverse of frame Painting 7 ¾ x 4 ½ in. (19.7 x 11.4 cm.) Provenance Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar as part of an album given to the geographer J. Petermann, 1855. F. Engel-Gros, Fifaille, Switzerland, sold Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, May 3-June 1, 1921, lot 252d. Parish-Watson & Co., New York, Nov. 1930-31. Emile Tabbagh, Paris, sold New York, American Art Association-Anderson Galleries, Inc., Jan. 3-4, 1936, lot 73. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, New York. Acquired from the estate of the above December 1960.

Auction archive: Lot number 1001
Auction:
Datum:
11 May 2018 - 11 May 2018
Auction house:
Christie's
New York
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