Sohrab sepehri

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Sohrab Sepehri (October 7 1928-21 abril 1980) was a notable modern Persian poet and a painter. He was born in Kashan in Isfahan province. He is considered as one of the five most famous modern poet…

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Oil Painting 100x120 cm

Sohrab Sepehri was a leading Iranian modernist poet and painter. In both his poetry and his paintings, Sepehri expressed a layered sensibility through his distinct abstract landscapes. Sepehri was a traveler, absorbing various cultures whose influences became manifest in his canvases. He studied lithography in Paris, Japanese calligraphy in Tokyo, and Buddhism in India. These influences produced a unique painterly quality – variously marked by bold brushstrokes, or gestural swipes marked by…

In Memory of Sadegh Hedayat