card and when word got around it and prison the arabian government and the shah were buying our. members of the art world naturally approach them to suggest works to buy a rand was very wealthy at the time and the international art market was out a low point. some of the works proposed were selected in part of this room and. that. eventually the collection grew to include well over three thousand works by both iranian and international artists painting such as mural on in the in red ground by jackson pollack found their way there. along with works by brock. rauschenberg. and many others. financed by