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Sohrab Sepehri

Painter, Poet
Kashan (Iran) 1980 - Tehran1928

Educations

  • Graduated from Fine Arts Faculty, Tehran University: 1953

Group Exhibitions

  • First and second Tehran Biennale: 1958, 1960
  • Gilgamesh Gallery, Tehran, Iran: 1963
  • Sao Paolo Biennale, Brazil: 1963
  • Iran’s Contemporary Art, Le Haver Museum, France: 1963
  • 5th International Contemporary Art Exhibition, New Delhi, India: 1965

Awards and Prizes

  • Sepehri’s paintings is the most expensive Iranian Modern painting. In Christie’s Auction (2011) his painting from “Tree Trunk” series broke the records and sold in $662,500 and In Tehran auction a tree trunk painting sold for around 28bn Rials ($1,800,000), becoming the most expensive painting ever sold in Iran

Artistic Activities

  • Collaborated with the arts magazine, Panjeh-e-Khorous (Rooster’s Claw), 1953
  • Stage design for the film “Iron”, written & directed by Khojaste Kia: 1964

Publications

  • The eight books, a collection of poems: 1951- 1967
  • The Blue Room: 1990

Visual Arts Sohrab Sepehri

Sohrab Sepehri

Painting Oil on canvas 80 × 90cm

Sohrab Sepehri

Painting Watercolor on paper 22 × 15cm

Sohrab Sepehri

Painting Watercolor on paper 19 × 12cm

Sohrab Sepehri

Painting Oil on canvas 120 × 80cm

Sohrab Sepehri

Painting Oil on canvas 90 × 80cm

Sohrab Sepehri

Painting Oil on canvas 145 × 165cm

Sohrab Sepehri

Painting Oil on canvas 100 × 60cm

Sohrab Sepehri

Painting Oil on canvas 90 × 180cm

Sohrab Sepehri

Painting Oil on canvas 80 × 130cm

Sohrab Sepehri

Painting Oil on canvas 120 × 80cm

Sohrab Sepehri

Painting Oil on canvas 80 × 120cm

Sohrab Sepehri

Painting Oil on canvas 98 × 69cm

Sohrab Sepehri

Painting Oil on canvas 43 × 34cm

Sohrab Sepehri

Painting Watercolor on cardboard 38 × 56cm

Sohrab Sepehri

Painting Watercolor on cardboard 38 × 56cm

Sohrab Sepehri

Painting Oil on canvas 120 × 180cm

Sohrab Sepehri

Painting Oil on canvas 79 × 119cm