Mahsha
1998
Catalog details
- Artist
- Master Jalil Ziapour
- Date
- 1998 (1377 SH)
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 140 × 110 cm
- Style
- Ziapour’s national style
- Collection
- Private collection
- Inscription
- To Mahsha, my daughter
Mahsha, oil on canvas, 1998, in Jalil Ziapour’s national style.
About this work
This article was machine-translated from the original Persian and may contain inaccuracies.
Master Jalil Ziapour painted this picture in 1998, just one year before his death, for his daughter, Mahsha. The large circle in the figure’s hands is the very daf (frame drum) that his daughter Mahsha used to play for him in the mornings.
At first Ziapour had signed the canvas only with the word “Mahsha.” Since “Mahsha” was his daughter’s own name, she told her father that viewers, on seeing this name, might think the painting was her own work. Ziapour smiled and, to remove this ambiguity, added words beside his daughter’s name, turning it into the phrase “To Mahsha, my daughter.”
