Sohrab Sepehri

Sohrab Sepehri was born in October 1928 and grew up in Kashan, in a house with a large orchard; his father, a painter, calligrapher and tar player, worked at the telegraph office. A graduate of the Tehran School of Fine Arts in 1953, he held various public jobs which he left in 1962, learned lithography in Paris and woodblock printing in Tokyo, travelled in India, Europe and America, and exhibited at the Tehran, Venice and São Paulo biennials. He never married, died of leukaemia in Tehran on 21 April 1980 and is buried near Kashan.

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• PoetryThe Eight Booksهشت کتابSohrab Sepehri · 1976Literature