In the system of art economic, galleries are part of the primary market, although they also sell works privately through their networks in the secondary market. Gallery owners in Iran have gone beyond these and included online auctions to art calls in their work plans. This multilateralism is evident in the activities of many Iranian gallery owners, because the burden of promoting v...

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.