TEHRAN -- Artwork by recently-deceased artist Bahman Mohasses will go on display at the Niavaran Cultural Historical Complex.

The exhibit will contain six sculptures and five painting tableaus preserved at the complex.
A sculpture of a human figure bearing the head of a cow, a bronze statue of a bird, and the hand of a man holding a dead bird are some of the works by Mohasses to go on show.
Several paintings with images of fish, and one painting with the image of a bird are also included in the collection.
Mohasses was an outstanding painter and sculptor as well as a good translator. Persian translation of works by Italian authors Italo Calvino and Curzio Malaparte, and French authors Eugène Ionesco and Jean Genet are some of his other accomplishments.
Born in 1921 in Rasht, Gilan Province, Mohasses traveled to Europe in 1951 and chose to stay in Rome. He studied at the Academy of Art in Rome, and held several solo and group exhibitions in Italy and other countries.
Mohasses returned to Iran in 1963 and staged the play “The Chairs” by Ionesco. Some years later in 1967, he decided to go back to Italy and continued living in Rome until he died. He used to visit Tehran every now and then but few were in touch with him.
Some of his valuable artworks are preserved in Italy and the United States while others are kept in Iran at the Jahan-Nama Museum of the Niavaran Palace and Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art.