TEHRAN, IRAN.-The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art presents Modern Art Movement. The international collection of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art embraces the most significant artistic trends and styles of the 20th century and includes important works by most of the prominent and representative figures that emerged during this period. It leads the viewer through the history of modern art movement, exploring its roots and covering all the major schools embodied by important works of their leading artists.

Edward Lucie-Smith wrote: "The non-Iranian section of the collection of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art is surely one of the great surprises of the international museum world. Running from the 1870s to the end of the 1980s, it offers a panorama of the chief developments in Western painting and sculpture from the rise of Impressionism to the triumph of Minimalism. The most important art movements are illustrated with a series of masterpieces that any museum in the world might envy. This is clearly the most important collection of the art of this period outside of Western Europe and North America. Russian museums possess great masterpieces dating from before the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, but they are of course completely lacking in paintings and sculptures which illustrate later developments, such as the Surrealism of the period between the two World Wars, and the Abstract Impressionist and Pop Art movements which flourished in the years immediately following World War II."