Legendary painter and sculpture Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian was remembered on Thursday. A large number of colleagues joined a memorial event at Tehran’s Negarestan Garden Museum. A modern art pioneer in Iran, Farmanfarmaian died at her home in Tehran on April 20. She was 97. Farmanfarmaian was famous for her mirror mosaics and geometric drawings. The Negarestan Garden Museum of the University of Tehran opened a new section in December 2017 to put 51 artworks by her on display in a permanent exhibition.
