Warhol, Pollock, Rothko on rare display in Tehran
Some of the world's most expensive and rarely seen modern art, including works by the Americans Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol, went on display Saturday in a major exhibition in Iran./ They are part of a collection bought in the 1970s by dealers acting for Farah, the wife of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who fled into exile in 1979, heralding Iran's Islamic revolution later that year. Ever since the themes of many of the Western works have been considered too risque to be publicly shown and have spent much of the past 36 years languishing in ...
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