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""I had the best time. It was just so up there. So glamorous. She [the Empress] was really, really kind and so beautiful."" - Andy Warhol after his visit to Tehran ""The Empress is a testament to the influence of soft power to change the fabric of a nation forever. Her vision and dedication turned the 1970s into a golden age for Iran."" - Viola Raikhel-Bolot and Miranda Darling During her reign as the first queen in Iranian history, Empress Farah Pahlavi dedicated her life to serving the Iranian people, creating, and curating museums and festivals across the country. With a keen eye - and working with Sotheby's, Christie's, and the Met - the empress was able to amass one of the world's greatest collections of modern art for her country, including works by van Gogh, Picasso, Bacon, and de Kooning. She empowered a generation of young Iranian artists, visited the studios of artists like Henry Moore and Chagall, and commissioned works directly from a young Andy Warhol, who paid visit to the Royal Palace, in the name of establishing her country as a cultural vanguard. Then, in 1979, the unimaginable happened, and the Iran that emerged after the Revolution changed everything. Iran Modern: The Empress of Art uncovers the lost story of Farah Pahlavi's amazing journey from Empress to exile and illuminates the near-forgotten collection of contemporary art she left behind. AUTHORS: Viola Raikhel-Bolot is the managing director and co-founder of 1858 Ltd Art Advisory, an international firm that works with some of the biggest names in modern art and collecting. She has advised in the international art market for over a decade and has contributed to CNN, CNBC, and Bloomberg Television. Miranda Darling is a writer, and co-founder of Vanishing Pictures Productions. She has published two thrillers and a novel, and worked on several documentaries as a writer and consultant. Before reading English and Modern Languages at Oxford, Miranda travelled the world as a fashion model, and worked for PAPER magazine in New York. She has a Masters in Strategic Studies and Defence from the ANU (GSSD), and was an adjunct scholar at a public policy think tank (CIS), where she published widely on the topic of new security threats. She writes regularly for several magazines. 100 illustrations Handcrafted in a luxury cloth clamshell case

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