Original works of art by Picasso, Van Gogh, Warhol, Pollock on display in Tehran
Many of the world’s most expensive and rarely seen pieces of modern art, including works by Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol and Jackson Pollock are on display in an exhibition in Tehran.
The 42 Western works are part of a collection at Tehran's Museum of Contemporary Art.
Just one of the works, Pollock's "Mural on Indian Red Ground", was valued some five years ago at around $250 million.
Warhol's 1963 work, called "Suicide", is part of the display.
"Sienna Orange and Black on Dark Brown" an oil on canvas by American artist Mark Rothko and Irish-born British painter Francis Bacon's "Reclining Man with Sculpture" are also present in the exhibition.
"This is a first step and we hope to have more mutual cooperation to showcase outstanding Iranian artists as well as displaying more works from our foreign art collection," Iran's Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Ali Jannati told AFP following a Friday night preview of the gallery.
The art works have already been put on display multiple times.
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