Representative work by Bahman Mohassess
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Artist

Bahman Mohassess

b. 1931, Rasht, Iran · Based in Rome, Italy

  • Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma (1958)
  • Apprenticeship with Jalil Ziapour, Tehran
  • Painting
  • Bronze Sculpture

Bahman Mohassess, often called the 'Persian Picasso', created tragic, monumental paintings and bronze sculptures of headless minotaurs, blind creatures, and mutated birds. Radiating existential despair and political anguish, his uncompromising masterpieces captured the brutality of the human condition.

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