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Farmanfarmaian, Monir Shahroudy, 1922-2019

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Personal name headingFarmanfarmaian, Monir Shahroudy, 1922-2019
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Variant(s)Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Monir, 1922-2019
Shāhrūdī Farmānfarmāyiyān, Munīr, 1922-2019
Farmānfarmāyiyān, Munīr Shāhrūdī, 1922-2019
فرمانفرماييان، منير شاهرودى، 1922-2019
شاهرودى فرمانفرماييان، منير، 1922-2019
Associated placeNew York (N.Y.)
LocatedTehran (Iran)
Birth date1922-12-16
Death date2019-04-20
Place of birthQazvīn (Iran)
Place of deathTehran (Iran)
Field of activityMosaics
Fashion
AffiliationDānishgāh-i Tihrān
Parsons School of Design
Profession or occupationArtists
Special noteNon-Latin script references not evaluated.
Found inA mirror garden, 2007: CIP t.p. (Monir Farmanfarmaian) CIP data sheet (b. 1924; female) book t.p. (Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian)
Die Macht des Ornaments, c2009: artist biographies, p. 142 (Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian [alphabetized under Shahroudy]; b. 1924 in Qazvin; lives and works in Teheran)
Munīr Shāhrūdī Farmānfarmāyiyān, 2021: title page (منير شاهرودى فرمانفرماييان = Munīr Shāhrūdī Farmānfarmāyiyān)
Wikipedia, November 22, 2022 (Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian; born December 16, 1922 in Qazvin; died April 20, 2019 in Tehran, Iran; artist and a collector of traditional folk art; first artist to achieve an artistic practice that weds the geometric patterns and cut-glass mosaic techniques (Āina-kāri) of her Iranian heritage with the rhythms of modern Western geometric abstraction; in 2017 the Monir Museum in Tehran, Iran was opened in her honor)
CNN website, viewed November 22, 2022 (Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian; prominent contemporary Iranian artist died at age 97 in her home in Tehran; born in 1922 in Qazvin, Iran; studied fine arts at the University of Tehran before moving to the US in 1945 to persue a degree in fashion at the Parsons School for Design in New York)