Aqa Mirak

1979 Aqa Mirak Wonders of the Age (2 Horse Riders) Vintage

1979

Paper Size: 38 x 25 inches ( 96.52 x 63.5 cm ) Image Size: 32.5 x 23 inches ( 82.55 x 58.42 cm ) Framed: No Condition: B: Very Good Condition, with signs of handling or age S...

Paper Size: 22 x 16 inches ( 55.88 x 40.64 cm ) Image Size: 22 x 16 inches ( 55.88 x 40.64 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A: Mint Additional Details: One of twenty-six color lithog...

Paper Size: 15 x 11 inches ( 38.1 x 27.94 cm ) Image Size: 15 x 11 inches ( 38.1 x 27.94 cm ) Framed: No Condition: C: Several Signs of use and handling, some visible marks Add...

Paper Size: 38.5 x 24.5 inches ( 97.79 x 62.23 cm ) Image Size: 27.5 x 23.75 inches ( 69.85 x 60.325 cm ) Framed: No Condition: B: Very Good Condition, with signs of handling or a...

Lithograph By Marice B (ineligible) Signed by Artist Measures 31.5 x 21 in. In Good/Fair Condition

Mixed media on paper realized by an unknown italian artist, most probably in 1970s. Pastels and watercolor. Includes a wooden frame.

23" x 11" Unframed Limited Edition Serigraph of 295 Hand Signed by Anora Spence

The present illuminated folio page contains a fine miniature depicting four figures playing polo. Polo, also called 'chagun,' was the sport of kings and princes of central Asia and Iran, and the sport probably originated there in the 6th century BCE. Polo matches appear in a large number of early Persian texts, including in the writings of the 10th century epic writer Abu l-Qasim al-Firdawsi: He describes numerous polo matches in his famous 'Shahnameh' (The Persian Book of Kings). This particular illumination also is closely related to an example held at the Smithsonian Museum of Asian Art: a folio from 'Guy u Chawgan' (The ball and the polo-mallet) which shows a polo game with the dervish and the shah. 12 x 8.25 inches, artwork 19.75 x 15.88 inches, frame accompanied on the back with an image of the verso framed to conservation standards with a 100% rag silk-lined mat in a gold gilded frame A Persian miniature is a small Persian painting on paper, whether a book illustration or a separate work of art intended to be kept in an album of such works called a muraqqa. The techniques are broadly comparable to the Western and Byzantine traditions of miniatures in illuminated manuscripts. Although there is an equally well-established Persian tradition of wall-painting, the survival rate and state of preservation of miniatures is better, and miniatures are much the best-known form of Persian painting in the West, and many of the most important examples are in Western, or Turkish, museums. Miniature painting became a significant genre in Persian art in the 13th century, receiving Chinese influence after the Mongol conquests, and the highest point in the tradition was reached in the 15th and 16th centuries. The tradition continued, under some Western influence, after this, and has many modern exponents. The Persian miniature was the dominant influence on other Islamic miniature traditions, principally the Ottoman miniature...