Gems of Modern Art keept away from people of Iran

Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art
http://ir-tmca.com/collection/collection.htm
http://ir-tmca.com/collection/collection2.htm




Iran keeps Picassos in basement : Kim Murphy / Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-museum19sep19,1,5465097.story

For a 2005 exhibition, authorities issued an order to remove the central panel of Francis Bacon’s triptych “Two Figures Lying on a Bed With Attendant” because of its purported homosexual overtones. A reporter enters a museum vault holding possibly the finest collection of late 19th and 20th century masters outside the West.

TEHRAN -- Habibollah Sadeghi looks vaguely irritated to see me: not surprised, seeing as he has spent the last 10 days evading my phone calls, letters and polite appeals delivered through intermediaries. He knows I want to see his Picassos. He doesn't want to show them to me. But Iranian hospitality being what it is, Sadeghi is forced to invite me into his office for tea. "I got your letter," he says. "Frankly, I was somewhat offended that you seem to think our paintings are like some big nuclear secret. They are not a secret at all." "I know," I reply. "That's why I came to see them."