TEHRAN -- The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMCA) plans to hold a retrospective of Iranian painter and poet Sohrab Sepehri.

Sepehri’s rarely seen watercolors will be showcased in an exhibition entitled “A Chink to Color” from November 30, 2009 to January 21, 2010.
TMCA also plans a weeklong film festival during the program, in which a number of short films, feature-lengths and documentaries on Sepehri will be screened.
Ramin Meshkin-Moqaddam’s “The Blue of Kashan”, a biopic of Sepehri, will open the festival on Monday. Among the other films slated for the event are “And I’m Traveler” directed by Loqman Khaledi, “Pomegranate and Cane” by Saeid Ebrahimifar and “Where Is My Friend’s Home” by Abbas Kiarostami.
Iranians mainly know Sepehri (1928-1980) as a poet rather than as a painter.
He is considered as one of the five most famous Iranian poets who wrote in blank verse. The others were Nima Youshij, Ahmad Shamlu, Mehdi Akhavan-Salis, and Forugh Farrokhzad.
His poems have been translated into French, English, Spanish, Italian, Swedish and Russian.
Sepehri died of leukemia.