Where is the most expensive Iranian painting + photo

Fars News Agency – Art Group: “Museum of Fine Arts” is one of the important buildings of Saadabad historical and cultural complex, which is located in the southernmost point of Saadabad (in Tajrish region of Tehran). It was known as the Black Palace because of its use of black marble.

In 1985, the museum was named and the paintings and sculptures that were purchased before the revolution were transferred to it. Most of the works of art of the “Museum of Fine Arts” were purchased between 1352 and 1354. It is said that before the Islamic Revolution, most of these works were kept in the Marble Palace.

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The Museum of Fine Arts is active on three floors. Narges Mirza Aghabek, the director of the museum, tells Fars about this: The ground floor has an exhibition mode and is dedicated to the contemporary professors of our country during most of the year, including Sohrab Sepehri, Jafar Rouhbakhsh, Masoud Arabshahi, Nasser Oveisi, Nasser Assar, Mir Abdolreza Daryabeigi, Sadegh Tabrizi, Hossein Mahjoubi and …. Sometimes we hold exhibitions of works by young contemporary artists, which is now dedicated to the exhibition of Asef Ebrahimi.

He describes the works on the second floor of the Museum of Fine Arts: On the second floor, we have European works from the 18th to the 20th century, mostly paintings, and some sculptures, clocks and furniture.

On the third floor are the oldest works of the museum, which are Iranian and start from the Safavid period and continue until the Zandieh and Qajar periods, and reach Master Kamal al-Molk and his students. Mirza Aghabek adds: We have 4 galleries of coffee house paintings, which include works of Shahnameh coffee houses, martial coffee houses, religious coffee houses and social coffee houses. The Saqakhaneh paintings section is scheduled to open on the third floor of the museum soon, and we are trying to have this opening on World Museum Day (May 18), but if we do not, we will open this section in the summer of 1401. We also have a calligraphy gallery on the third floor.

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After entering the museum and climbing the stairs to reach the first floor, the tapestry (similar to cashmere weaving) of the eighteenth century from Belgium and another from France stands out. A little later, we come across a spectacular painting from the 17th century.

To the right of the first-floor hall is a small but valuable painting by Ivan Shishkin (1832-1898), a Russian naturalist painter, and a little further on is “Summer Yudad” by the Norwegian painter Hans Dahl (1849-1937). A little further on, when we enter one of the sub-galleries, we see two paintings of horses, the details of which are amazing. One was painted by John Frederick Herring (1795-1865) and the other by Benjamin Lambert Marshall in 1826.

In another room, several works by Simone van Goldern (1905-1986) are on display. “Rest in the Pasture” is also the work of the German Wilhelm Fry, who painted in 1875.

There are three works by Salvador Dali, the famous Spanish painter, in the tank of the Museum of Fine Arts. “According to some foreign tourists who visit the museum, they come to see the dolly works,” said Ehsan Arvan, a cultural heritage expert. In particular, one of his works, which is similar to the pen, and because it requires special protection, its movement and display is very limited.

He explains: There are more than a thousand works in the Museum of Fine Arts, including reproductions of a limited number of world-famous museums by some of the most famous artists, such as Wongog. Contemporary Iranian artists such as Iran Droudy, Munir Farmanfarmayian, Sadegh Tabrizi, Bahman Mohasses, Faramarz Pilaram, Nasrollah Afjehhai, Mohsen Vaziri Moghadam and Seyed Mohammad Ehsaei also have numerous works in the treasury of the Museum of Fine Arts. 7 works by Sohrab Sepehri are also available in this museum.

* The most expensive Iranian painting

On the third floor of the Museum of Fine Arts, unique paintings of Iranian art are kept.

Upon entering this class, three works from the Safavid era show themselves, which seem to have Georgian origins in the paintings. The importance of these works in validating the antiquity of classical Iranian painting.

At the end of the hall, there is a large painting of Nader Shah Afshar’s crowning to Mohammad Shah Gurkhani (one of the kings of the Gurkhanid Empire of India), which is two and a half centuries old and has been signed on it: Abolhassan 1189 AH. According to some museum experts, this painting is interesting for foreign tourists and corrects their mentality from the bloodshed and looting of Nader Shah Afshar in India.

But the exceptional work of the Museum of Fine Arts is undoubtedly the painting of Fath Ali Shah Qajar, the work of Mehr Ali Isfahani and signed on it: Mehr Ali 1220. The importance of this painting, which is more than 2 centuries old, is in its technique, which was created with natural color and gold water.

It is said that this painting was bought by two Englishmen a few decades ago to be transported abroad. So they cut it in half so that it could be placed in a coffin for the ship – now showing the restoration of the painting – they put it up for auction at Christie’s in London, and at Farah’s behest, it was bought at auction at a high price and taken to the Royal Palace. Found.

The director of the Museum of Fine Arts says about Mehr Ali Isfahani’s painting, which measures about one meter by 2 meters: “The material value of this work is such that it cannot be priced, and according to experts, it is unique among Iranian works.” Of course, we are not looking for cultural work and we are not looking to value the treasures of the Museum of Fine Arts. For this reason, we have so far provided some of our works on loan to other museums, including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tehran, and those that are on loan are insured.

Effect: Hans Dahl

Effect: Ivan Shishkin

Effect: John Frederick Herring

Effect: Wilhelm Fry

Effect: Van Goldern

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