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English: A LARGE QAJAR PORTRAIT OF RUMI'S SPIRITUAL MENTOR, SHAMS-I TABRIZI (1185 – 1248)

Qajar Iran, dated 1256 AH (1840 - 41 AD)

Oil on canvas, the large vertical-format portrait depicting a young bare-chested hermit with long, untamed, black hair, a thin moustache, thick eyebrows, and two beauty marks, wearing a slim cloak of animal fur and white cotton trousers, crouched in a typical Qajar palatial interior, in front of him two items usually associated with the Sufi hermit's lifestyle, a lidded begging bowl and a wooden club with an animal head, the arched windows behind the sitter presenting a romanticised Italianate landscape with mountains in the distance, livened by small figurines in polychromes, with two nasta'liq inscriptions in Persian on the right-hand side reading Rumi's quote Shams Tabrizi Inhebriated since the First Day of Creation (stating that Shams Tabrizi was initiated in the manner of the Sufis from the start), and the artist's takhallos underneath The Beauty of Rajab Ali's Pen comes from 'Ali with the date 1256 AH, the canvas stretched and relined, mounted on a light blue wooden frame, 140cm x 88cm including the frame.
Date 1840-1841
Source https://www.chiswickauctions.co.uk/auction/lot/lot-313---a-large-qajar-portrait-of-rumis-spiritual-mentor-shams-i-tabrizi-1185--1248/?lot=231651&so=0&st=A%20LARGE%20QAJAR%20PORTRAIT%20OF%20RUMI%27S%20SPIRITUAL&sto=0&au=&ef=&et=&ic=False&sd=0&pp=48&pn=1&g=1
Author Chiswickauctions.co.uk

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