Ali Akbar Sadeghi
Boasting XVIII1973

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Artist or Maker: Ali Akbar Sadeghi
Iran, born 1937
Title: Boasting XVIII
Date Made: 1973
Medium: Animation celluloid with drawn background (plastic and paper)
Dimensions: 35 × 30 in. (88.9 × 76.2 cm)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Navabeh Borman in memory of Darius Nourafchan, with additional funds provided by Houman Nikbakht and Harvey and Beth Plotnick
Accession Number: M.2017.248
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: Art of the Middle East: Contemporary
Curatorial Notes: Painter and illustrator Ali Akbar Sadeghi, an artist of long-standing stature in Iran, is perhaps best known for his animations from the 1970s. The film Boasting, for which this animation cell was produced, reflects the chaotic state of Iran in the early 1970s. Here, the competing political factions of the day, in the guise of medieval warriors, come together in the end for a common cause. Sadeghi appears to have prophesied the times leading up to the 1979 Iranian Revolution, when various political parties united briefly to help depose the shah.
Selected Bibliography: Komaroff, Linda. In the Fields of Empty Days: The Intersection of Past and Present in Iranian Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2018.
Copyright: © Ali Akbar Sadeghi

Not on view

Artist or Maker: Ali Akbar Sadeghi
Iran, born 1937
Title: Boasting XVIII
Date Made: 1973
Medium: Animation celluloid with drawn background (plastic and paper)
Dimensions: 35 × 30 in. (88.9 × 76.2 cm)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Navabeh Borman in memory of Darius Nourafchan, with additional funds provided by Houman Nikbakht and Harvey and Beth Plotnick
Accession Number: M.2017.248
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: Art of the Middle East: Contemporary
Curatorial Notes: Painter and illustrator Ali Akbar Sadeghi, an artist of long-standing stature in Iran, is perhaps best known for his animations from the 1970s. The film Boasting, for which this animation cell was produced, reflects the chaotic state of Iran in the early 1970s. Here, the competing political factions of the day, in the guise of medieval warriors, come together in the end for a common cause. Sadeghi appears to have prophesied the times leading up to the 1979 Iranian Revolution, when various political parties united briefly to help depose the shah.
Selected Bibliography: Komaroff, Linda. In the Fields of Empty Days: The Intersection of Past and Present in Iranian Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2018.