# Ardeshir Mohassess artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:59:49.832Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Iranian
- Common media: Illustration, Cartooning and caricature, Painting

## Portrait

![Ardeshir Mohassess](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7a/Ardeshir_Mohasses1.jpg)
Kamran Shirdel · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ardeshir_Mohasses1.jpg

## About Ardeshir Mohassess

Ardeshir Mohassess (1938–2008) was an Iranian illustrator, cartoonist, satirist, and painter born in Tehran and later based in New York. Library authority records identify him under several English and Persian transliterations, including Ardeshir Mohasses and Muḥaṣṣiṣ, Ardashīr—an important distinction when matching books, catalogues, and auction listings. His documented creative identity encompasses illustration and caricature as well as painting. The available institutional sources do not establish a formal movement, so it is more accurate to place him broadly in the context of Iranian visual satire and an artistic life that later included New York. Collectors may encounter his name on cartoons, illustrations, paintings, and published works, sometimes catalogued under variant spellings. Careful identity matching is therefore especially important: the authority records consistently connect these variants to the same 1938–2008 artist. The source pack is strongest on identity and occupation, while detailed chronology, named series, and museum-level interpretation remain limited.

## Common works and media

The securely supported work categories are illustrations, cartoons or caricatures, and paintings. Library records specifically identify Mohassess as an illustrator and caricaturist, while the collected biographical source also describes him as a painter and satirist. Published works and catalogue entries may appear under Persian script or alternative Romanized spellings of his name. The source pack does not establish particular named series, edition practices, favored materials, or recurring iconography, so those details should be verified from the individual object and its documentation.

## Market and appraisal context

The collected evidence establishes that Mohassess worked across illustration, cartooning, caricature, and painting, but it does not provide accessible lot-level results or a major-auction-house biography. Appraisal should therefore begin with reliable artist identification, especially because authority files record several transliterations of his name, and should distinguish a cartoon or illustration from a painting before selecting comparables. When public auction records are available, the most useful comparisons are records for the same work type and a clearly matched artist identity. Sale dates and realized prices describe particular transactions rather than predicting a new result. The present evidence does not support claims about price trends, rarity, edition size, premium subjects, or record prices; those questions require object-specific evidence and verified comparable lots.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3944234
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/28373026/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/029936594
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardeshir_Mohasses
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/ardeshir-mohassess/