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Suicide (Purple Jumping Man) is a 1963 silkscreen painting by American pop artist, Andy Warhol. it is currently in the collection of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in Tehran.

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History

During 1970s Iran's oil revenue had increased and the king and queen of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Farah Diba decided to establish a museum of contemporary art in order to modernize their country. Suicide (Purple Jumping Man) was among the paintings that Tony Shafrazi, the Iranian-born American art dealer, bought for the collection of this museum.

At that time, Andy Warhol was interested in the idea and painted portraits of the king and his wife.

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Style

Suicide (Purple Jumping Man) depicts two images in sequence, recorded by a documentary photographer, silk-screened in black ink on a purple ground.

According to Tony Shafrazi, Suicide (Purple Jumping Man) is one of the greatest works of Warhol. Shafrazi estimates the painting's value at 70 million dollars.


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