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Leyly Matine-Daftary (1937–2007) was an Iranian
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artist and art educator. She was based in both
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and
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. Matine-Daftary was best known for her flat paintings that highlighted simplicity but still expressed emotions.


Biography

Leyly Matine-Daftary was born in 1937 in
Tehran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...
,
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(now known as
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). Her father,
Ahmad Matin-Daftari Ahmad Matin-Daftari, also known as ''Mo'in al-Dowleh'', ( fa, احمد متین دفتری; 23 January 1897 – 26 June 1971) was an Iranian politician. He served as the former Prime Minister of Pahlavi Iran from 1939 until 1940. Biography Ahmad ...
, was Prime Minister of Iran, as was one of her grandfathers, Mohammad Mossadegh. After completing her
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in Tehran, she attended
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. She obtained a Fine Arts degree from the
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before returning to Tehran in the late 1950s. From 1960 until 1956 she lectured on sculpture and sculpting at the Fine Arts Faculty of Tehran University. Matine-Daftary was involved in the early Tehran Biennial and in the
Shiraz Arts Festival The Shiraz Festival of Arts ( Persian: جشنواره هنر شیراز) was an annual international summer arts festival, held in Iran bringing about the encounter between the East and the West. It was held from 1967 to 1977 in the city of Shiraz ...
, for which she created iconic identifying materials. Matine-Daftary died in
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on 17 April 2007.


Exhibitions

* 2016, "20th Century Art/Middle East", part of Middle East Art Week, Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), Dubai * 2013 – 2014, "Iran Modern", Asia Society, New York City * 1974 – 1975, "Exhibition of the Contemporary Iranian Art collection of
Farah Pahlavi Farah Pahlavi ( fa, فرح پهلوی, née Farah Diba ( fa, فرح دیبا, label=none); born 14 October 1938) is the widow of the last Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and was successively Queen and Empress ('' Shahbanu'') of Iran fro ...
" - (traveling) Tehran, Islamabad, Delhi, Istanbul, Ankara, Belgrade, Moscow, London and Paris * 1973,
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, Paris Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium * 1968, "International Festival of Arts", ''Shiraz Modern Iranian Art'' and
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, New York City, New York * 1967, ”25 Years of Modern Iranian Art”, Tehran Museum, Tehran, Iran * 1966, Tehran Biennale, Iranian Pavilion, Official Selection, Tehran, Iran * 1962, Tehran Biennale, Iranian Pavilion, Official Selection, Tehran, Iran


See also

*
List of Iranian artists The following list of Iranian artists (in alphabetical order by last name) includes artists of various genres, who are notable and are either born in Iran, of Iranian descent or who produce works that are primarily about Iran. Cinema artists Ac ...
*
List of Iranian painters Classical era Classical Persian painter * Kamaleddin Behzad * Reza Abbasi * Farrukh Beg * Mihr 'Ali Modern era A * Aghapour, Shahla * Aghdashloo, Aydin * Alikhanzadeh, Samira (1967– ), painter * Alivandi, Bahram * Arabshahi, Massoud ...
*
List of Iranian women artists This is a list of women artists who were born in Iran or whose artworks are closely associated with that country. A * Panteha Abareshi (born 1999), multidisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles, California * Golnar Adili (born 1976), artist bas ...


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examples of Leyly Matine-Daftary's work
on ArtNet.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Matine-Daftary, Leyly 1937 births 2007 deaths 20th-century Iranian painters 20th-century Iranian women artists 21st-century Iranian women artists 21st-century Iranian painters Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art Iranian women painters Modern artists Artists from Tehran People educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College