Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art
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- "If you happened to be in Tehran between 1977 and 1979, you might have seen the incredible collection of 19th- and 20th-century Western masterpieces on display at the Iranian capital’s newly inaugurated Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art. Only a handful of Westerners have seen it since, making a trip to the museum’s basement one of the art world’s most prized — and fraught — pilgrimages."[1]
Tehran's Museum of Contemporary Art is one of Iran's finest museums, located in Tehran. The collection was a project by Farah Pahlavi, most of the artworks were furnished by Tony Shafrazi, an Iranian-born New York gallery owner, who acquired them from the likes of Leo Castelli, Ileana Sonnabend, Paula Cooper, John Weber and Irving Blum.
Inaugurated in 1977, and built adjacent to Tehran's Laleh Park, the museum was designed by Iranian architect Kamran Diba, who employed elements from traditional Persian architecture. It is considered to have the largest collection of valuable Western modern art outside Europe and the U.S.A.
The Museum holds an impressive variety of works notably by:
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