Treasures of Asia. Persian Painting (Yvonne Audette’s copy)

London : Skira, 1961. Quarto, cloth in illustrated dustjacket (light edge wear), pp. 192, extensively illustrated with tipped-in colour plates.

The most famous publication by the preeminent British art historian and museum curator, covering the Mongol style under the Il-Khans, painting under the Timurids 1400 – 1450, the Shiraz School 1415 – 1503, the School of Herat 1452 – 1510, the Safavi School under Shah Tahmasp, the School of Bukhara and other provincial schools, and later Safavi painting. A fine copy.

Provenance:

Australian artist Yvonne Audette (born 1930), her wet stamps to the upper and lower endpapers, acquired in 2025.