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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsA glimpse at Picasso and Pollock masterpieces kept in Tehran vault
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clye46n565xoIt has been dubbed one of the world's rarest treasure troves of art but few people outside its host country know about it.
For decades, masterpieces by the likes of Pablo Picasso, Vincent Van Gogh, Andy Warhol and Jackson Pollock have been kept in the basement of a museum in Iran's capital Tehran, shrouded in mystery.
According to estimates in 2018, the collection is worth as much as $3bn.
Only a small portion of the work has been exhibited since the 1979 Iranian Revolution but in recent years, the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art has been showcasing some of its most captivating pieces.
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A glimpse at Picasso and Pollock masterpieces kept in Tehran vault (Original Post)
SheltieLover
Feb 17
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CTyankee
(65,977 posts)1. How I'd love to see this! Sadly, unless this collection travels somewhere closer -- NYC, maybe? -- I'll miss it.
SheltieLover
(66,191 posts)2. I would too, but not likely.

debm55
(44,175 posts)3. I wish I could see also. Andy Warhol was my second cousin.
SheltieLover
(66,191 posts)4. Cool about Warhol
Did you ever meet him?
JoseBalow
(7,153 posts)5. I enjoy abstract and modern art
but I will never understand what people see in Pollock.