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$5 Billion Of Masterpiece Art Locked Away In Iran

Guardian   |  Robert Tait   |   October 31, 2007 10:28 AM

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The Picasso masterpiece is worth an estimated £25-30m on the international art market, but its only regular contact with the human eye is the fiercely critical gaze of the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

A life-size portrait of the Iranian leader stares in apparent disapproval at the Spanish master's The Painter and His Model, a piece that is every bit as provocative as it sounds. The two paintings hang almost opposite each other in a basement underneath Tehran's museum of contemporary art. Alongside, languishing in similar obscurity, is a startling array of world famous paintings by the likes of Monet, Van Gogh, Pissarro, Renoir, Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec, Magritte, Miró and Braque.

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- getoffmedz I'm a Fan of getoffmedz permalink
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per the Bush/Cheney swine herd, "It's just some goddamned old canvas."

Bunker-busters, AWAY!

Now, that folks is a great false assertion. Take a lesson, trolls.

LOL

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:50 AM on 10/31/2007
- wadenelson1 I'm a Fan of wadenelson1 permalink
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Well hell! Let's blow Iran to pieces and then like the Antiquities Museum in Iraq, the people can loot all this precious stuff and have it end up on the International Market!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:48 AM on 10/31/2007
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