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TO GO WITH AFP STORY OF ARTHUR MACMILLAN Visitors stand next to paintings (L-R) by Irish-born British painter Francis Bacon "Reclining Man with Sculpture" and American artist Franz Kline "untitled" during the opening ceremony of an exhibition of modern art at Tehran's Museum of Contemporary Art (TMOCA) in the Iranian capital, on November 20, 2015. Some of the world's most expensive and rarely seen modern art, including works by the Americans Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol, which are part of a collection bought in the 1970s by dealers acting for Farah, the wife of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who fled into exile in 1979, heralding the country's Islamic revolution later that year, went on display in a major exhibition in Iran. AFP PHOTO / ATTA KENARE == RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE, MANDATORY MENTION OF THE ARTIST UPON PUBLICATION, TO ILLUSTRATE THE EVENT AS SPECIFIED IN THE CAPTION == (Photo credit should read ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images)