Iranian artists to attend Mansureh Hosseini’s funeral procession today

TEHRAN,July 3(MNA) – The funeral procession for the eminent modernist Iranian painter Mansureh Hosseini will take place today at Tehran’s Vahdat Hall. Painters, artistic figures and officials will accompany the body of Mansureh Hosseini to her final resting place in Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery. Hosseini, a pioneer of Iranian modern art, died at the age of 86. She had been suffering from heart disease for the past few years. Hosseini was living alone in her home in Tehran and her body was found dead after two weeks by neighbors, the Persian media reported on Saturday. Hosseini was a graduate of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Tehran and left Iran for Rome to continue her studies. In 1959 she held her first painting exhibitions in Iran when she returned. Her paintings were a combination of calligraphy, line and paintings that seemed a little strange in those years. Hosseini had attended numerous solo and group exhibits in Iran and other countries. Exhibitions of her paintings were last held in the Niavaran Cultural Center in 1998 and at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in 2004.