Property from a Contemporary New York Collection
304
Shirin Neshat
I am its secret from Women of Allah
- Estimate
- $6,000 - 8,000
$13,860
Lot Details
Chromogenic print, printed 1999.
1993
18 7/8 x 12 1/2 in. (47.9 x 31.8 cm)
Signed, titled and dated in pencil on the verso. One from an edition of 250.
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Catalogue Essay
The calligraphic text within the image is a poem by contemporary Iranian feminist poet, Forough Farrokhzad from her Remembering the Flight: Twenty
Poems
I’ll be greeting the sun again
and the stream that flowed in me
and the clouds that were my long thoughts
and the painful growth of the aspens in the grove
that passed through droughts with me.
- translated by Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak
Poems
I’ll be greeting the sun again
and the stream that flowed in me
and the clouds that were my long thoughts
and the painful growth of the aspens in the grove
that passed through droughts with me.
- translated by Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak
Provenance
Literature