Art collecting in contemporary Iran is more of a patronage that even leads to archival activities. But is it possible to classify Iranian art collectors and talk about their motivations? In this short essay, Savana Boghossian has tried to propose a framework for art collecting in Iran, considering the limited information at hand.

Art News Top 200 Collector’s list has identified and introduced influential London collectors since 1999, and in the latest list presented in 2022, the names of four Iranian collectors are also included. In the following, we introduce these collectors.

The value of NFT is largely related to the artists who created it. If an artist is known in the field of traditional or digital art, their NFT productions will also receive more attention. NFT artists in Iran and around the world are usually found through their high volume followers in social media, or they even work under pseudonyms or anonymously. Among these artists, there are al...