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2022

“Yektai: A Search for Modernism”

Fereshteh Daftari

In the mid-1940s, few Iranian artists could act on their desire to leave Iran to study in Europe.

Manoucher Yektai and Monir Shahroudy (later Farmanfarmaian, Yektai’s wife from 1948 to 1953) were among the first who did. Their goal was France, not the American Dream, but facing restrictions on passage to war-torn France, they set sail in 1944 on a ship that took them to California by way of Bombay and immediately after that to New York, where they arrived in 1945.

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It was not until the 1960s that a handful of other Iranian artists immigrated to the United States. Among them were Siah Armajani, in 1960; Maryam Javaheri, who arrived in New York in 1961 and found a mentor in Ad Reinhardt; and, later that decade, Nahid Haghighat and Nicky Nodjoumi.

In the 1950s, despite New York’s new status as the center of the art world, Iranian artists were aiming for Italy—themecca that drew M