Western art treasures go on show in Tehran
Iranian Culture Minister Ali Jannati (right) looks at Jackson Pollock’s Mural on Indian Red Ground (1950) during the opening ceremony of an exhibition of modern art at Tehran’s Museum of Contemporary Art on Friday. 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 yesterday 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 Mohamed Reza Pahlavi, who fled into exile in ...
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