We moved back to Iran in 1959. We stayed there from 59 to 64. We started discovering new artists. They were young in their career, they needed promotion, they were not probably at all know, so we decided to promote these artists, so along with our parties we would start displaying these guys and telling ambassadors and generals and whoever, that this art was Iranian new art and it would promote them if you buy them, and so we created a market for them. The more we got interested the more we acquired with the idea that eventually we'll start a museum of persian art of a certain period because there was representation of Persian art or culture.
Eric Azari