About 60 works from the TMoCA were expected to be to be received in Germany next week for the opening of the eagerly-awaited Tehran Collection at Berlin’s Gemälde Galerie. “We are ready and waiting to open the exhibition, but the paintings are still in Tehran. The art works were purchased during the oil boom of the 1970s under the direction of Farah Diba Pahlavi, the wife of the last Iranian shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Francis Bacon’s painting ‘Two Figures Lying on a Bed with Attendant’ (1968) displayed at the Modern Art Movement exhibition at TMoCA. The authorities have not been transparent about this at all.”Ali Amini Najafi, an Iranian art expert based in Germany, said it was understandable that Iranian artists were concerned.

Source: The Guardian November 25, 2016 17:24 UTC