"Next month in London, Christie's will sell 95 Indian and Persian paintings from the collection of Prince and Princess Sadruddin Aga Khan. With estimates ranging from £2,000 to £1m, it is expected to sell for in excess of £8m on 28 October. The broad-ranging collection, formed between the 1960s and 1980s, contains Ottoman, Mughal, Deccani and Rajput works alongside 17th century Isfahani artists like Reza Abbasi"
"Plumbly points out that, in his catalogue introduction to the 1998 British Museum exhibition Princes, Poets and Paladins, the collector and academic Stuart Cary Welch wrote that visitors to Prince Sadruddin's home were "struck by his penchant for the happy and lyrical", qualities that Plumbly says are reflected in this collection: "Many paintings relate to gardens and flowers, others to animals and the natural world and finally to people.""
Christie's will sell 95 Indian and Persian paintings from Prince and Princess Sadruddin Aga Khan's collection on 28 October, with estimates from £2,000 to £1m and an expected total exceeding £8m. The collection, assembled between the 1960s and 1980s, contains Ottoman, Mughal, Deccani and Rajput works plus 17th-century Isfahani pieces by Reza Abbasi and Company School paintings by Ghulam Ali Khan and Sheikh Muhammad Amir of Karraya, dated between the 16th and 19th centuries. Prince Sadruddin was born in France in 1933 and served as United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from 1966 to 1977. Many works bear personal labels indicating gifts exchanged at the couple's Chateau de Bellerive. The paintings frequently depict gardens, flowers, animals, the natural world and people. Several acquisitions were made at auction, from dealers and during trips to New York while Prince Sadruddin studied at Harvard.
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