Grogan & Company's annual Fine Rugs & Carpets Auction will include over 150 lots including nearly 60 rugs from the famed James Opie collection. Jim, a Seattle-based rug scholar, dealer, and collector emerged from his experimental 1960s with an intellectual curiosity leading him to Oriental rugs. Michael Grogan first met Jim at his Portland gallery in 1980, two years before the publication of Jim's first book, and he has since published another book and numerous articles on tribal rugs. Other highlights in the sale include a rare Mohtasham Kashan rug, previously published in a Swiss rug book in 1917 and sold as part of the C. Meyer-Muller collection at Christie's in 1992.
