Jackson Pollock, “Mural on Indian Red Ground,” 1950, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art
On Friday I reported that the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art’s Pollock masterpiece, “Mural on Indian Red Ground,” 1950, having returned from a Pollock retrospective in Nagoya and Tokyo, Japan, was being held by Iran’s customs service because of what Agence France-Presse reported as an “undeclared debt” allegedly owed to the government by cultural authorities.
Now this just in from Helen Harrison, director of the the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, East Hampton, NY, who had contributed the video in my previous post that showed Iran’s Pollock being installed last fall at the Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya:
I just got an email from an acquaintance who works at the Tehran Museum that the mural is back there safe and sound.
Confirming this is a piece in today’s Tehran Times (online yesterday), which reports: “‘Mural on Indian Red Ground’ was unveiled during a ceremony at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMCA) on Tuesday [yesterday].” Accompanying the article is a photo of the reinstallation-in-progress.
No word on whether or how the “undeclared debt” was resolved. The BBC yesterday reported that the painting had been returned “after negotiations.”