29 – Hossein Qullar Aqasi – Yusef and Zuleikha Banquet

Price realized: 2 Billion Rials (IRR)

Artist

Name

Signed

Technique

Oil painting on canvas (Imaginary Painting Style known as coffee house painting)

Year of creation

1940

Dimensions

110×160 cm

Biography

Hossein Qullar Aqasi, born in 1890 in Tehran, is one of the founders of Iranian Ghahveh-Khaneh painting. In his scenes, he has used national and religious epics such as Lily and Majnoon, Yusuf and Zuleykha, Bahram Gour and general themes. The painting of Haft Kan Rostam on the entrance of Karim-Kan Zand citadel in Shiraz is one of his surviving works. He died in 1975.