Bahman Mohasses, perhaps is one of the most significant and controversial artists of modern Iranian art. He was born in Rasht, Iran the capital of Iranian northern province near the Caspian sea in 1931. At age fourteen to learn the basics of painting, he started attending the shop of Mohammed Habib Mohammadi, a painter who had studied at the Moscow Art Academy.

Having moved to Tehran with his family, Bahman Mohasses enrolled in the Tehran Fine Art Academy in 1950 but never attended. At this time he contributed a few articles to the Iranian magazine, Fighting Cock, which represented the Iranian artistic and literary vanguard and was founded by Jaleel Ziyapour, an Iranian artist. Later Mohasses collaborated with anot...