A square canvas of a rainbow-tailed phoenix flying at upper left over red rocky hills and a pale moon, with a silver fish leaping from a curling stream in the foreground and a branch of tiny blossoms on the right

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Collection work · Paintings · The Simorgh

The Fish and the Simorgh

AE-P-0036

Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
60 × 58 cm (23.6 × 22.8 in)
Signed
Yes, lower right, faint pale signature on the dark rock
Present location
In the studio, Surrey
Certificate
Numbered certificate of authenticity with every original
1 metre at this scale· 1.7 m human at this scale

About the size of a large hardback book open flat.

£1,900

  • Signed by Anahita
  • Numbered certificate
  • Direct from the artist
  • Insured UK delivery included
  • 14-day right to return
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About this work

This is one of Anahita’s larger imagined worlds. A phoenix banks in from the left with its long ribbon of tail feathers, while below a silver fish flings itself out of a bright ribbon of water. The hills are worked as slow curves of red and grey, opening onto a pale moon at the heart of the picture. Notice the sparse branch on the right, dotted with tiny pink flowers, that quietly frames the whole scene.

Provenance

  1. The artist, Surrey

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