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Property from a Private Collection, California

Parviz Tanavoli

Poet in Love

Live auction begins on:

January 31, 04:30 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 USD

Bid

60,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Parviz Tanavoli

b. 1937


Poet in Love

signed Parviz in Farsi (to the main body)

bronze

32 by 8 by 6.3 cm. 

12 ½ by 3 ⅛ by 2 ½ in.

Executed in 1962; this work is unique.


This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the Artist.

The Artist

Private Collection, Minnesota (acquired from the above)

Florence Clark Collection, Florida

Hindman Auctioneers Chicago, 25 August 2013, Lot 1093

Private Collection (acquired from the above sale)

Acquired from the above in 2015 by the present owner

Vancouver, Vancouver Art Gallery, Parviz Tanavoli: Poets, Locks, Cage, July - November 2023

Exh. Cat., Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, Parviz Tanavoli: Fifteen Years of Bronze Sculpture, 1976, n.p., illustrated in black and white, unexhibited (titled Poet in Love II)