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The adventure of
returning illustrated pages of the Royal (Tahmasbi) Shahnameh (Aydin Aghdashloo). The
author, himself a famous painter and an expert of Persian painting, recounts his memories
of a travel he made to London in 1977 in view of acquiring one of the paintings of the
Royal (aka Houghton) Shahnameh. He also discusses the importance of this book in Iranian
culture and justifies the recent exchange of the remainder of the book with a painting by
Willem de Kooning, assessing it as a beneficial transaction in both material and cultural
terms.
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Persian Paintings: Qajar Epoch 1785-1925 (Sh. Saad) is the title of an exhibition held
from October 23rd 1998 to January 24th 1999 under the responsibility of Mrs. Layla Diba
(Soodavar) and Mrs. Maryam Ekhtiar by the Brooklyn Museum of Art. |
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exhibition, for the first time, some 100 works of Iranian painters-a collection hitherto
never seen in the West-were exhibited together. While reviewing the exhibition, the author
briefly examines Iranian painting in the Qajar period. |
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