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MARTIROS SARYAN'S ASHTARAK PUT UP FOR AUCTION ON EBAY
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13:37, 19 July, 2014
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YEREVAN, JULY 19, ARMENPRESS. “Ashtark” painting by
prominent Armenian artist Martiros Saryan was put up for auction
on Ebay. The artist completed the painting in 1948. The preliminary
price of the painting is USD 1,2 million.
As reports “Armenpress”, July 21 of the current year
is the deadline of the auction. There is no information about the
owner of the painting on the website, but it’s stated that he
lives in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. According to the website,
this is the original canvas with the artist’s signature on it.
Martiros Saryan was an Armenian painter, the founder of the Armenian
national school of painting.
He was born into an Armenian family in Nakhichevan-on-Don (now
part of Rostov-on-Don, Russia). In 1895, aged 15, he completed the
Nakhichevan school and from 1897 to 1904 studied at the Moscow School
of Arts, including in the workshops of Valentin Serov and Konstantin
Korovin. He was heavily influenced by the work of Paul Gauguin and
Henri Matisse. He exhibited his works in various shows. He had works
shown at the Blue Rose Exhibit in Moscow.
He first visited Armenia, then part of the Russian Empire, in 1901,
visiting Lori, Shirak, Echmiadzin, Haghpat, Sanahin,Yerevan and
Sevan. He composed his first landscapes depicting Armenia: "Makravank,"
1902; "Aragats," 1902; "Buffalo. Sevan", 1903; "Evening in the Garden,"
1903; "In the Armenian village", 1903, etc. which were highly praised
in the Moscow press.
>From 1910 to 1913 he traveled extensively in Turkey, Egypt and Iran.
In 1915 he went to Echmiadzin to help refugees who had fled from the
Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire. In 1916 he traveled to Tiflis
(now Tbilisi) where he married Lusik Agayan. It was there that he
helped organise the Society of Armenian Artists.
After the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917 he went with his family
to live in Russia. In 1921 they moved to Armenia. While most of his
work reflected the Armenian landscape, he also designed the coat of
arms for Armenian SSR and designed the curtain for the first Armenian
state theatre.
>From 1926 - 1928 he lived and worked in Paris, but most works from
this period were destroyed in a fire on board the boat on which
hereturned to the Soviet Union.
In the difficult years of the 1930s, he mainly devoted himself again
to landscape painting, as well as portraits. He also was chosen as a
deputy to the USSR Supreme Soviet and was awarded the Order of Lenin
three times and other awards and medals. He was a member of the USSR
Art Academy (1974) and Armenian Academy of Sciences (1956).
Saryan died in Yerevan on 5 May 1972. His former home in Yerevan is
now a museum dedicated to his work with hundreds of items on display.
He was buried in Yerevan at the Pantheon next to Komitas Vardapet.
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[ Part 2.2: "Attached Text" ]
13:37, 19 July, 2014
Inline images 2
YEREVAN, JULY 19, ARMENPRESS. “Ashtark” painting by
prominent Armenian artist Martiros Saryan was put up for auction
on Ebay. The artist completed the painting in 1948. The preliminary
price of the painting is USD 1,2 million.
As reports “Armenpress”, July 21 of the current year
is the deadline of the auction. There is no information about the
owner of the painting on the website, but it’s stated that he
lives in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. According to the website,
this is the original canvas with the artist’s signature on it.
Martiros Saryan was an Armenian painter, the founder of the Armenian
national school of painting.
He was born into an Armenian family in Nakhichevan-on-Don (now
part of Rostov-on-Don, Russia). In 1895, aged 15, he completed the
Nakhichevan school and from 1897 to 1904 studied at the Moscow School
of Arts, including in the workshops of Valentin Serov and Konstantin
Korovin. He was heavily influenced by the work of Paul Gauguin and
Henri Matisse. He exhibited his works in various shows. He had works
shown at the Blue Rose Exhibit in Moscow.
He first visited Armenia, then part of the Russian Empire, in 1901,
visiting Lori, Shirak, Echmiadzin, Haghpat, Sanahin,Yerevan and
Sevan. He composed his first landscapes depicting Armenia: "Makravank,"
1902; "Aragats," 1902; "Buffalo. Sevan", 1903; "Evening in the Garden,"
1903; "In the Armenian village", 1903, etc. which were highly praised
in the Moscow press.
>From 1910 to 1913 he traveled extensively in Turkey, Egypt and Iran.
In 1915 he went to Echmiadzin to help refugees who had fled from the
Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire. In 1916 he traveled to Tiflis
(now Tbilisi) where he married Lusik Agayan. It was there that he
helped organise the Society of Armenian Artists.
After the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917 he went with his family
to live in Russia. In 1921 they moved to Armenia. While most of his
work reflected the Armenian landscape, he also designed the coat of
arms for Armenian SSR and designed the curtain for the first Armenian
state theatre.
>From 1926 - 1928 he lived and worked in Paris, but most works from
this period were destroyed in a fire on board the boat on which
hereturned to the Soviet Union.
In the difficult years of the 1930s, he mainly devoted himself again
to landscape painting, as well as portraits. He also was chosen as a
deputy to the USSR Supreme Soviet and was awarded the Order of Lenin
three times and other awards and medals. He was a member of the USSR
Art Academy (1974) and Armenian Academy of Sciences (1956).
Saryan died in Yerevan on 5 May 1972. His former home in Yerevan is
now a museum dedicated to his work with hundreds of items on display.
He was buried in Yerevan at the Pantheon next to Komitas Vardapet.
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/769994/martiros-saryan%E2%80%99s-ashtarak-put-
up-for-auction-on-ebay.html