He was a cousin of the celebrated Persian illustrator and cartoonist, Ardeshir Mohasses, residing in New York.At age 14, he learned painting by apprenticing with Seyyed Mohammed Habib Mohammedi, who had studied art in Moscow at the Russian Academy of Arts.He moved with his family from Rasht to Tehran, where he attended Tehran’s Faculty of Fine Arts. During the same period he joined the “Cockfight Art and Culture Society” (Anjoman-e Khorous Jangi), established by Jalil Ziapour, and was, for some time, the editor of the literary and art weekly “Panjeh Khoroos” (Rooster Foot).
Through this period, he was part of an avant-garde artistic movement, which included his good friend Nima Yooshij, known as the ‘father of modern Persian poetry’; along with Sohrab Sepehri, Houshang Irani and Gholamhossein Gharib, who were all considered progressive artists of their time.In 1954 he moved to Italy to study at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma.He returned to Iran in 1964 and participated in Venice, São Paulo and Capital Biennale.Mohasses directed plays, including Pirandello’s Henry IV at Goethe Institute and Ghandriz Gallery [Wikidata] in Tehran. He also translated books of a number of authors, including Eugène Ionesco, Malaparte and Pirandello.
