Lot 96: Portrait

Koorosh Shishegaran (Iranian, b. 1945)
Portrait
signed 'KOOROSH ' and signed and dated in Farsi (lower left)
oil on canvas
55 x 49¼in. (140 x 125cm.)
Painted in 2005.

"I always thought to myself why we should not paint a portrait in an abstract form. An abstract portrait gives the artist liberty to look beyond the appearance into subject in a symbolic way. There are many unspoken secrets within a portrait that once revealed, present a very different world. It is a world much more interesting than the world of appearance. Every artist has his unique way of depicting his subjects if he tries to detach himself from the appearance." (Koorosh Shishegaran)