The picture was arrested in early May at the airport in Tehran because of the money owed to the Ministry of customs officers, and only this week returned to her native museum

This week picture finally returned to his native museum. Source: payvand.com

This week, the work of Jackson Pollock (Jackson Pollock) worth 250 million dollars (159 million pounds) returned to the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art after the May 11, was detained by Iranian customs.

picture "mural on a red background" (1950), customs officers seized when she was returning to his native museum after a three-month stay at the exhibition dedicated to the centenary of the artist, at the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo. The painting was confiscated by the customs debt of the Ministry of Culture, in whose keeping is the work of the museum owns. According to the ministry, the work was returned to the museum after negotiations with customs.

Pollock painting is considered one of the best works in the museum collection, which includes more than 300 works by such well-known authors such as Paul Gauguin (Gauguin), Picasso (Picasso), Henry Moore (Henry Moore), Munch (Munch), Cézanne (Cezanne), Van Gogh (Van Gogh). The collection was created to enhance the cultural prestige of the country's former wife, Farah Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran (Farah Pahlavi), on behalf of which the art-buying experts at Western auctions best paintings and sculptures. The work of Jackson Pollock was acquired in 1976, a year before the opening of the museum.

In Iran, the picture was exhibited only in the years 1977-1979, but after the revolution of 1979 was placed in storage, along with works by Picasso (Picasso), Magritte (Magritte) and Warhol (Warhol). The museum collection has been condemned by the servants of Islam as the embodiment of Western "decadence," but in the 2000s for a short time reappeared in public after a brief "thaw" in the Iranian cultural politics.

Prepared by Mary Estrova, AI

Source : bbc.co.uk , payvand.com , artinvestment.ru