Tehran's queen-commissioned Faun Musician ended in pieces after 1979 Revolution

Bahman Mohassess's public Faun Musician was taken down after Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution, according to The Art Newspaper. Commissioned in 1971 by queen Farah Pahlavi for the City Theatre plaza in Tehran, it vanished for 20 years. A late-2000s photograph showed it in pieces in the basement of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in Tehran.