Hossein Behzad belongs to the record of art as a figure whose work outlasted the taste that first received it.
The record lists Hossein Behzad as Iranian painter (1894–1968).
Hossein Behzad was born at Tehran in 1894. His recorded nationality is Pahlavi Iran.
Around the turn of the twentieth century the movements arrived in quick succession, each defining itself against the last.
He worked as painter and poet.
Art history is a record of what got kept, which is not the same as what was best.
That the work was made in Pahlavi Iran shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Hossein Behzad died in 1968, aged 74. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
