TEHRAN -- A book containing a large number of the U.S.-based Iranian painter Nasser Ovissi’s works was published in Tehran and released on Thursday.
“Paintings of Ovissi: Selective Works of Nasser Ovissi” was released by the Gooya House of Culture and Art, a major Iranian publisher of art books.
This is the first time Ovissi’s work have been published in Iran after the victory of the Islamic Revolution, Masud Ovissi, the owner of the Ovissi Gallery in Tehran, said in a press release.
His works have previously been published in 15 books.
Over 170 works of the expressionist painter have been published in the book, which begins with an article Iranian poet Nader Naderpur (1929-2000) wrote about Ovissi’s work in 1993.
The book also carries articles by Contemporary Museum of Madrid Director Carlos Arean, American author and art critic Frank Getlein, French critic Claude Sauvage, and Iranian critic Javad Mojabi.
Born in 1934, Ovissi studied law and political science at the University of Tehran and then moved to Rome where he got degree in art.
Works by Ovissi have so far been displayed in over 50 exhibitions in his homeland and other countries.
Ovissi and celebrated Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dali held a joint exhibition in Madrid in 1977.
A number of Ovissi’s works are on display at museums in Iran and Italy, France, England, Greece, Switzerland, Germany, Turkey, India, Sweden, Canada, Spain and the United States.
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