Lot 59
FROM A PERSIAN EPIC: A PRISONER CAPTURED IN A MOUNTAINOUS LANDSCAPE BY AN ARMY
INDIA, PROVINCIAL MUGHAL, 18TH CENTURY
Estimate: £3,000 - £4,000
Auction: 11 December 2024 from 10:00 GMT
Description
gouache on paper heightened in gold, mounted on an album page with gilt decorated borders, depicting soldiers with richly caparisoned horses for battle capturing a warrior and his horse, all within a mountainous landscape, a river in the foreground, glazed and framed
Dimensions
28.5cm x 19.5cm
Provenance
From the Estate of Dorothy Bohm (1924-2023).
Dorothy Bohm was a British photographer based in London, known for her portraiture, street photography, early adoption of colour, and photography of London and Paris. She is considered one of the doyennes of British photography.
Dorothy Bohm was born in 1924 in Koenigsberg, East Prussia and moved to England in 1939. By the age of 21, she was running her own very successful portrait studio in central Manchester, known as Studio Alexander. In the mid-1950s, she lived for a while both in Paris and New York before settling definitively in northwest London.
Her first solo exhibition, People at Peace, took place at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London in 1969, and 1970 saw the publication of her first book, A World Observed. Numerous more books and exhibitions would follow. In 1971 she was closely involved in the founding of The Photographers’ Gallery, and served as its Associate Director for the next fifteen years. By the 1990s Dorothy was firmly established as one of the doyennes of British photography, with work in numerous public and private collections, including Tate, the Victoria & Albert Museum, Guildhall Art Gallery and the Musée Carnavalet, Paris.
