TEHRAN -- Artwork created by the renowned Iranian painter Kamalolmolk are currently on display at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMCA).

His paintings and other works created by his disciples that have been kept in the museum’s storehouse are now on display concurrent with the Fajr Visual Art Festival.
Known as Kamalolmolk, Mohammad Qaffari (1847- 1940) was a famous Iranian painter.
The Kamalolmolk School of painting was perpetuated by his disciples and their students, among them such famous names as Mahmud Olia, Kazem Ordubadi and Abbas Katuzian.
The second edition of the Fajr Visual Arts Festival is currently underway at the TMCA as well as in Khuzestan, Semnan, Yazd and Golestan provinces.
This year, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art is hosting the non-competition section of the festival in Tehran, the TMCA official Ehsan Aqaii told IRNA on Monday.
Over 60 artifacts from the storehouse as well as visual works created by guest artists are on display at the museum, he added.
The Gallery No.1 is dedicated to paintings created by Master Kamalolmolk and his disciples, which include a Kamalolmolk self-portrait, he mentioned.
A total of 52 photos by the late Bahman Jalali on the theme of the Islamic Revolution and Iran-Iraq war (1980-88) are on display at Gallery No.2.
The Gallery No.3 is hosting selected painting-calligraphy artwork created by artists in the 1960s.
Six sculptures created by guest artists are on display at the Small Gallery No.3.
Gallery No.4, 5 and 6 are hosting paintings by guest artists and hung on the walls of Gallery No.7 and 8 are works created by guest calligraphers.
Twenty miniatures are on showcase at the Gallery No.9 out of which five are from the storehouse.
The exhibitions will run until the end of the Fajr Visual Arts Festival on March 3.
Photo: “Jew Fortuneteller” painted by Kamalolmolk