The Iraq-Iran war is over, but still continues in the games of children!

Object Details

• Artist

  Seifollah Samadian (Iran, born 1954)

• Provenance

  ?-2011

  Seifollah Samadian [1]

  From 2011

  National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, purchased from Seifollah Samadian [2]

  Notes:

  [1] This was purchased from Seifollah Samadian in 2011.

  [2] See note 1. From 2011-2023, the object was part of the National Museum of Asian Art’s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection and on March 21, 2023, the work was internally transferred to the National Museum of Asian Art Collection.

  Research updated on April 27, 2026

• Collection

  National Museum of Asian Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Sense of Place: Landscape Photographs from Asia (August 3 to November 11, 2013)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Seifollah Samadian (Iran, born 1954)

• Origin

  Iran

• Credit Line

  Purchase -- Jahangir and Eleanor Amuzegar Endowment for Contemporary Iranian Art

• Type

  Photograph

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1990s

• Name

  Samadian, Seifollah

• Topic

  Contemporary Art, Art, Arts of the Islamic World, Children, Firearms, Automobiles

• Culture

  Muslims, Iranians

• Object Type

  Photographs