Naghachian's Book
NAGHI NAGHACHIAN
The quatrains of Omar Khayyam. Frankfurt, Privately printed, 2008.
A beautiful edition in four languages was produced in 2008 by Iranian artist Naghi Naghachian. The work consists of 88 illustrated pages with 22 colour plates, and verses in Persian, English, French and German. It took five years of creative and intensive study to produce the book.
Mr. Naghachian, born in Tehran, completed high school education in Iran, and studied illustration and book design in Germany. The selections are taken from translations by Avery and Heath-Stubbs and FitzGerald, from the German translation by Alavi and Remané, and the French translation by Mahdi Fouladvind. The Persian verses are selected from the edition by Sadegh Hedayat. The work was printed in a limited edition of 150 copies, hand-bound, and signed by the artist. The complete edition was sold to a large company, that preferred to stay anonymous, and who presented copies as a business gift. According to information provided my Mr. Naghachian, each unique copy was priced at € 15,000.
A selection from the work is available online.