Farideh Lashai, a leading modern Iranian artist has died after a long battle with cancer at the age of 68. These paintings were featured on ikono, Mah and Elahe gallery web sites.

ikono.org: Farideh Lashai was born in the North of Iran in 1944 and has now over 50 years of artistic practice to look upon. … She has lived and worked in a number of countries Her work is highly influenced by her origins – her admiration for 13th century Persian miniature as well as her affinity for abstraction stemming from calligraphic traditions – yet at the same time she is amenable for Western art. Farideh Lashai thus allows bridging between Eastern concepts and Western art. While painting and visual arts are her main practices, lyricism is the reigning characteristic in her works, whether it is painting, sculpture, writing, installation or a combination of animation and painting. Her work is at once tender and brusque, indecipherable and calligraphic. Color fields often predominate her canvases, obscure margins and diminish a sense of surface.

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