Ali Golestaneh died Fars news

According to the visual correspondent of Fars News Agency, our country’s painter Ali Golestaneh died. Aydin Aghdashloo published this in a post on his page, stating that the cause of Golsitaneh’s death was the effects of coronary heart disease.

Golestaneh was born in 1319 in Tehran and had a bachelor’s degree in painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts. He was a classmate of Aydin Aghdashloo and Abbas Kiarostami at Jam Gholhak High School.

Ali Golestaneh (Mohammad Golestani) studied painting with Ali Asghar Petgar. In 1338, he went to the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Tehran, and in 1351, he completed his art course with a diploma. Golestaneh lived in England from 1969 to 1977 and studied at the London Printing School affiliated with the University of London.

Self-portrait (self-portrait) by Ali Golestaneh

After a while, Golestaneh started working as a designer and painter for the Royal Club of England. He held his first exhibition of his pencil works at the Shahr Gallery in Tehran in 1976. He went to Spain in 1979. He held two exhibitions in Madrid in 1984 and 1986 and another exhibition in Santa Ullalia, Ibiza in 1981.

Golestaneh returned to Iran in 1987 and since then has remained in the country and held several solo exhibitions in the galleries of Golestan, Etemad, Hoor Amkan and Maryam Fassihi Harandi. His last exhibition was held in August last year at Gallery 009821.

An untitled painting by Ali Golestaneh, which was hammered 36 million Tomans in 2016 at the sixth auction in Tehran.

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