TEHRAN- The 22nd edition of the Tehran Auction, a prestigious event highlighting modern art in Iran, will focus on conventional, classical, and modern-day Iranian arts, including 100 works that show the rich history of Iranian art.The increasing occurrence of Islamic art auctions in international auction houses has helped with the export of valuable historic Iranian pieces, as announced by the public relations office of the Tehran Auction in a press release on Monday.In action to this trend and the existence of a mainly nontransparent and underground market for traditional and classical Iranian art, the Tehran Auction will provide a remarkable collection that consists of paintings, calligraphy, manuscript writing, and pictorial carpets, along with modern-day Iranian artworks.Over the previous decade, the Tehran Auction has actually aimed to stabilize the rates of modern artworks and foster a flourishing art market in the country, thereby boosting the status of collectors and enhancing the Iranian art economy.In light of the growing variety of worldwide Islamic art auctions, this edition looks for to assemble works from past centuries of Iranian art.
The objective is to support rates for standard and classical pieces, thus preventing the prohibited export of these products for sale at foreign auctions and helping with the aggregation of historical Iranian art.The 22nd Tehran Auction will display 100 modern-day, classical, and conventional art work, showcasing a collection that covers from the Safavid age to contemporary times.
This exhibit has actually been curated based on a profound understanding of Irans visual history over the previous 4 centuries, presenting impressive examples of Iranian art.The painting sector of this years auction consists of works by the popular Safavid-era painter Reza Abbasi and traces the historic evolution of this art kind through his studentssuch as Moein Mosavar, Mohammad Qassem, and Mohammad Yousefup to painters from the Zand and Qajar periods like Aqa Najaf Esfahani, Aqa Sadeq, and Mohammad Hassan Afshar Urumi.This years auction will likewise include works from students of the Kamal-ol-Molk school, consisting of Ali Mohammad Heydarian and Hossein Sheikh, along with pieces by modernist artists such as Hossein Kazemi and Ahmad Esfandiari.
This combination offers an unequaled offering based on Irans visual history for art collectors.The calligraphy area will include pieces from the Timurid duration to the modern age, showing the preservation of this art form throughout various historic durations in Iran.
The collection includes works from notable figures like Darvish Abdolmajid Taleqani, Mirza Gholamreza Esfahani, Esmaeil Astarabadi, and Mir Hossein Khoshnevisbashi, as well as modern Iranian calligraphy masters like Gholam-Hossein Amirkhani, Yadollah Kabuli, Abbas Akhavein, and Keykhosro Khorush.Additionally, the auction will include pictorial carpets and lacquered boxes.
These pieces represent a section of Iranian visual art that has actually emerged in woven types and practical items, embodying the story of Iranian pictorial history.Another highlight of this auction will be the ancient art of Iranian toreutics, which holds a significant location in major museums worldwide.
This edition will present important examples of this art from the Safavid, Qajar, and contemporary periods to interested buyers.The 22nd Tehran Auction is set to take place on Friday, and art enthusiasts can visit the exhibit of these works at the Parsian Azadi Hotel in Tehran on February 12 and 13.
Last October, the 21st edition of the Tehran Auction concluded with a remarkable total sales figure of 1.2 trillion rials ($2 million).
The online event saw 132 out of the 140 artworks up for bidding successfully sold, with 51 art work exceeding their highest estimated bids, while 81 pieces offered within the series of estimated minimums and maximums.Top sales figures included an untitled piece by Monir Farmanfarmaian that incorporates mirror work, reverse painting on glass, and plaster on wood from the 1970s, reaching an incredible 116 billion rials ($194,000), followed by Aydin Aghdashloo with his work entitled Summer, Winter from the Occidentals series, at 112 billion rials ($187,000).
The third highest was Reza Derakhshanis painting, Counting Days and Nights, Every Day and Every Night, which cost 101 billion rials ($168,000).
The very first of its kind in Iran, the Tehran Auction was released in 2012 as an independent and personal effort to introduce the best in Iranian art, ranging from established and emerging Iranian artists to art collectors and the international audience.It aims to deal with the increasing interest in modern-day and contemporary Iranian art and assist in the acquisition of quality works in trustworthy ways.SAB/