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Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art Established 1977 Location Laleh Park, Tehran, Iran Director Mahmud Shaluii Website www.tmoca.com/ Tehran's Museum of Contemporary Art (TMOCA) is an art museum in Tehran, Iran.
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 of Europe and the United States.[1] It is said that there is approximately £2.5 billion worth of modern art held at the museum.[2]
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Artists represented
- Wassily Kandinsky
- Jackson Pollock
- Claude Monet
- Camille Pissarro
- Vincent van Gogh: At Eternity's Gate[3]
- James Ensor
- Edouard Vuillard
- André Dunoyer de Segonzac
- Jules Pascin
- André Derain
- Louis Valtat
- Georges Rouault
- Fernand Léger
- Pablo Picasso: Baboon and Young
- Alberto Giacometti: Standing Woman,[4] Walking Man 1[5]
- Francis Bacon
- Max Ernst: Capricorn[6]
- René Magritte: The Therapeutae[7]
- George Grosz
- Diego Rivera
- Jasper Johns
- Andy Warhol
- Roy Lichtenstein
- Jim Dine
- Peter Phillips
- James Rosenquist
- Fritz Winter
- Joan Miró
- William Turnbull
- Victor Vasarely
- Adolph Gottlieb
- Richard Hamilton
- Georges Braque
- Jean Paul Riopelle
- Edvard Munch
- Pierre Soulages
- Edgar Degas
- Mary Cassatt
- Maurice Prendergast
- František Kupka
- Max Beckmann
- James Whistler
- Edward Hopper
- Henry Moore: Two–Pieces Reclining Figure,[8] Three–Pieces Reclining Figure[9]
- Giorgio Morandi
- Noreen Motamed
- Giacomo Balla
- Marcel Duchamp
- Parviz Tanavoli: Sanctified 1[10]
See also
- International rankings of Iran
- Safir Office Machines Museum
- Modern and contemporary art in Iran
References
- ^ Iran Keeps Picassos in basement. LA Times. Kim Murphy. Sep 19, 2007. Link: [1]
- ^ http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/oct/29/artnews.iran
- ^ a b "At Eternity's Gate", vggallery.com. Last Retrieved 19 October 2011.
- ^ Alberto Giacometti, Standing Woman, tmoca.com.
- ^ Alberto Giacometti, Walking Man 1, tmoca.com.
- ^ Max Ernst, Capricorn, tmoca.com.
- ^ René Magritte, The Therapeutae, tmoca.com.
- ^ Henry Moore, Two–Pieces Reclining Figure, tmoca.com.
- ^ Henry Moore, Three–Pieces Reclining Figure, tmoca.com.
- ^ Parviz Tanavoli, Sanctified 1, tmoca.com.
External links
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