"After weeks of bombardment that forced its closure and prompted emergency efforts to protect its collection, the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMoCA) has reopened with a weekly, rotating post-ceasefire programme-this week turning to Spain, including three works from Pablo Picasso's Weeping Woman series."
"Home to what is widely considered the largest collection of Western modern art outside Europe and the United States, the Art and War programme at TMoCA aims to explore artistic responses to conflict across time and geography. The programme began last week-still under emergency protocols-with six works by American Pop artists James Rosenquist, Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Indiana."
"The collection was primarily assembled in the 1970s by Iran's former Shah's wife, Farah Pahlavi, and is a rich collection of masterpieces, among them around 60 works by Picasso, as well as pieces by Andy Warhol, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, David Hockney, Vincent van Gogh and Pierre-Auguste Renoir."
"The collection has remained largely intact over the years, with one notable exception: De Kooning's Woman III (1953), which was exchanged in 1994 with the British art dealer Oliver Hoare for the text, binding and 118 miniature paintings from Shah Tahmasp's Shahnameh, a 16th-century Persian manuscript considered one of the masterpieces of Islamic art."
The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art reopened after bombardment forced closure and emergency protection of its collection. A weekly rotating post-ceasefire programme was launched, with each week focusing on a different country; the current focus is Spain, including three works from Pablo Picasso’s Weeping Woman series. The museum’s Art and War programme examines artistic responses to conflict across time and geography. The programme began under emergency protocols with six works by American Pop artists James Rosenquist, Roy Lichtenstein, and Robert Indiana. The museum holds a major Western modern art collection assembled mainly in the 1970s by Farah Pahlavi, including around 60 Picasso works and pieces by Warhol, de Kooning, Pollock, Hockney, van Gogh, and Renoir. One notable change involved exchanging de Kooning’s Woman III for a dismembered Shahnameh manuscript folios.
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