Iran lends Jackson Pollock painting to Tokyo show

TEHRAN,Nov.2(MNA) -- The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMCA) has lent a Jackson Pollock painting to the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo to go on display at “Jackson Pollock: A Centennial Retrospective”. The show will be running from February 10 to May 6, 2012. Jackson Pollock’s “Mural on Indian Red Ground” is kept at the TMCA. The Tehran museum is intending to widen its collaboration with international museums and has also requested that other museums loan their precious works to Tehran, TMCA curator Mahmud Shaluii said here on Wednesday. Kazuo Nakabayashi, the chief researcher of the museum said that this is the first exhibition reviewing works by Jackson Pollock, in which over 60 paintings by him will be put on show. The show will contain works collected from different museums across Europe and the United States as well as from private collectors, he said. In October 2010, the TMCA loaned Picasso’s “The Painter and His Model” to the Kunsthaus Zurich show that ran until January 30, 2011. The TMCA also loaned Dutch artist Kees van Dongen’s “Trinidad Fernandez” to Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam in August 2010.