 East meets West
Place:
Les Enluminures, Ltd. - New York, 23 E 73rd St, 7th Floor Penthouse, USA
Date:
Jan 31, 2025 to Feb 28, 2025
Detail: A collaborative exhibition between Les Enluminures and Sam Fogg
Les Enluminures and Sam Fogg are pleased to present “East Meets West,” accompanied by a catalogue in two volumes, exploring the intricate worlds of European, Persian, and Indian art.
The exhibition looks at the shared aspects of Eastern and Western traditions, with an emphasis on the use of materials, methods, and iconography. In Europe, an interest in exotic Eastern imagery, fashions, and peoples was making its way into prints, drawings, and paintings as early as the fifteenth century. By the early modern period, the court of India and Persia were assimilating European print materials and pictorial modes into their workshops. Even where the two traditions diverge, as they often do, an emphasis on the luxury arts of the book characterizes both centers of production and connects them through material inquiry.
Les Enluminures will feature twenty-two exceptional works of European manuscript painting, including works by renowned artists, such as Jean Colombe, famous for his contribution to Les Trés Riches Heures du Duc De Berry, and Bonifacio Bembo, well-known for his sets of painted Tarot cards and for his works under the patronage of the powerful Sforza family in Milan. The collection spans a remarkable geographic and chronological breadth, from the early twelfth to the early sixteenth century, and originating from France, Italy, England and Germany. Its catalogue aspires to enrich research in its field by presenting many yet unpublished miniatures, and by including works by exciting lesser-known artists, such as the female illuminator Magdalena Kremer and Giovanni Pietro da Cemmo, whose works remains underexplored in scholarly research. Its introduction explores in a novel way the act of collecting manuscript paintings.
Sam Fogg's catalogue includes twenty examples of some of the finest master drawings from India and Persia, most of which are entirely unpublished and will be exhibited for the very first time. Examples include those by three of the greatest Mughal artists from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: Basawan, Govardhan, and Payag. It proceeds with a selection of Persian drawings which includes two works on paper attributed to the highly esteemed Persian draughtsman, Reza 'Abbasi alongside a magnificent sheet by the Safavid master of Farangi-sazi, or the new "European style" of the late seventeenth century, Muhammad Zaman. In addition to stand-alone drawings and court portraiture, this group includes sheets and preparatory drawings from dispersed epic and poetic manuscripts which were produced at the Indian and Persian court ateliers. Great draftsmanship is evident in scenes of a leopard chasing a bear and a forlorn merchant, high spots of the revolutionary 'Isfahan style of the seventeenth century.
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