A work by renowned visual artist, painter, sketch artist and calligrapher Faramarz Pilaram (1937-1982) will go under the hammer at the upcoming edition of Tehran Auction.
The 9th Tehran Auction, the biggest domestic art sale, is slated for July.
It will offer a calligraphy work by Pilaram, Mehr News Agency reported on its Persian website.
“Owner of the artwork is a collector who will put it up for sale at the auction,” said Ali, the late artist’s son.
“The calligraphy was rendered in 1969 on a 100cmX70cm canvas. It is estimated between 2,500m rials ($59,240) and 3,500m rials ($82,938),” Ali Pilaram said.
Two other calligraphy works by Faramarz Pilaram had been sold at the first edition of the same auction in late spring in 2012, the son said.
The untitled painting by his father ranked the 3rd most expensive work at Bonhams London Auction of Modern and Contemporary Middle Eastern Art held last November.
“My father’s works have so far entered 66 international auctions including Bonhams, Sotheby’s and Christie’s. They have always been among the most expensive works sold,” he said.
Pilaram was inspired by folk and religious aesthetics.
Most of his works are exemplary expressions of the Saqqakhaneh School, which dominated Iranian modernism in the late 20th century, and of which he was a seminal founding member.
