Reza Derakshani (Iran, born 1952) Dot Hunt mixed media on canvas signed and dated 2018 160 x 140cm (63 x 55 1/8in). Footnotes: Provenance: Property from a private collection, Norway 'I believe that any art of quality is rooted in a spiritual source; it is universal. I have experienced it as a form of trance – or pure connected creativity – both in painting and in music. Rumi is a master of conveying this source, but Rothko and Pollock give me the same feeling in a different language. So, yes there are relationships. Understanding the Big Question, however, is a very personal journey and the ability to render it visually does not necessarily come from ever increasing intellectual knowledge or methodical contemplation. I am not a 'spiritual artist' in the sense that I consciously recycle Persian cultural icons with metaphysical meanings, but I do believe that the act of creation must have this natural flow which resolves in a miraculous moment where human life connects with a state beyond human reason. Pollock understood that and so did Rumi' - Reza Derakhshani For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com