SHIRIN NESHAT (B. 1957)
Salah, from The Book of Kings series
signed, titled, numbered and dated 'Shirin Neshat "Salah" from "The Book of Kings" series, 2012 1/5' (on a label affixed to the reverse)
ink on LE silver gelatin print, in artist's frame
sheet: 40 x 30in. (101.6 x 76.2cm.)
framed: 40¹⁄₄ x 30¹⁄₄ x 2in. (102.2 x 76.8 x 5.1cm.)
Executed in 2012, this work is number one from an edition of five

Donated by the artist.

Shirin Neshat: The Home of My Eyes, exh. cat., Baku, YARAT Contemporary Art Centre, 2015, fig. 9 (installation view illustrated in colour, p. 41).

New York, Gladstone Gallery, Shirin Neshat: The Book of Kings, 2012 (another example from the edition exhibited).
Paris, Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Shirin Neshat: The Book of Kings, 2012 (another example from the edition exhibited).
Beijing, Faurschou Foundation, Shirin Neshat: The Book of Kings, 2013 (another example from the edition exhibited).
Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, Shirin Neshat, 2013 (another example from the edition exhibited). This exhibition later travelled to Seoul, The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea.
Copenhagen, Faurschou Foundation, I Look at Things..., 2014 (another example from the edition exhibited).
Doha, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Shirin Neshat: Afterwards, 2014-2015 (another example from the edition exhibited).
Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Shirin Neshat: Facing History, 2015 (another example from the edition exhibited).
Tuebingen, Kunsthalle Tuebingen, Shirin Neshat, 2017 (another example from the edition exhibited).

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