The Shah in Halftone
Materials
Fine Art Prints
Premium archival matte fine art paper, 200–230 gsm. Smooth, bright white surface with an instant-dry coating that resists fingerprints and smudging. Printed with archival inks for accurate color and high-contrast reproduction. FSC-certified sustainable paper.
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Solid wood frame, roughly 0.875″ wide, available in light, black, or white. Protected by shatterproof optical-grade acrylic — lighter and safer than glass, and it ships without risk of breakage. Dry-mounted to foam core with a kraft paper dust cover and hanging wire installed, ready to hang out of the box.
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Mohammad Reza Shah in the Pahlavi Crown, posterized down to flat blocks and halftone dots, with the word شاهنشاه — Shahanshah, King of Kings — tiled across the entire background in gold. The face is half clean line and half dot screen, the way a newspaper photograph breaks up when it is enlarged too far.
- The Pahlavi Crown drawn ornament by ornament, its central spray and jewelled band in gold
- A dress tunic with collar chain, sash, breast stars and a full ribbon bar
- Shahanshah repeated in Persian script edge to edge behind the figure
- Visible halftone dots across the face and shoulders, and a rubbed gold-leaf texture on the metal
- Three flat colors at most in any one version, screen-print style
Shahanshah is one of the oldest royal titles in the world. The Achaemenids used its Old Persian form on the rock inscriptions at Behistun and Naqsh-e Rostam, and every Iranian dynasty that followed reached back for it.