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Variation n°25

Artist Farhad Ostovani (born 1950)

Date1998

MediumWatercolor and ink drawings on Nepal paper marouflé on canvas (2 panels)

DimensionsOverall (2 panels): 11 15/16 × 118 1/8 × 1 inches (30.32 × 300 × 2.54 cm)
Each (panel): 11 15/16 × 59 × 1 inches (30.32 × 149.86 × 2.54 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust through the George H. and Elizabeth O. Davis Fund

Object number2024.69.2.1,2

SignedSigned on verso, top right: "Farhad OSTOVANI | étud pour varietion No. 25 goldberg | Nicolayeva Tatiania 1998 -"

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Collections

South and Southeast Asian Art

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DescriptionVariation no. 25 is the first work from the Goldberg series. It consists of painted and drawn renderings of fragments of rose stems and leaves on Nepalese paper, assembled like a collage and mounted upon two wide stretched canvas panels.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Se son Rose fiorirano, Museo civico di Spoleto, June 26 – July 12, 1998.

Farhad Ostovani, Jensich Museum, Switzerland, 2000.

Ostovani: Paintings, Drawings & Illustrated Books, Museum Het Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam, 2003.

Published References

Se son Rose fiorirano, exh. cat. (Museo civico di Spoleto. Aa.vv. Electa, 1998)

Ostovani - Ut musica pictura, exh. cat. (Germany: Morat-Institut, 2008)

Yves Bonnefoy, Farhad Ostovani: Variations Goldberg (Aux éditions des cendres, 2013)

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