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    SARYAN'S EXHIBITION OPENED IN TRETYAKOV GALLERY

    news.am
    March 1 2010
    Armenia

    The exhibition dedicated to the 130th anniversary of the renowned
    Armenian painter Martiros Saryan opened in the Tretyakov Gallery,
    Moscow.

    Paintings, watercolors and drawings painted by the artist during his
    trips to Turkey, Egypt and Iran, still lifes and portraits of Anna
    Akhmatova, Nikolay Mordvinov, Armenian painter Khachatour Yesayan
    were exhibited. Besides, the exhibition includes still-lifes painted
    in 1930-1960 years.

    The exposition also portrays works of theatre, sets of Odessa Opera
    and Ballet Theatre plays. It will close on March 26.

    Martiros Saryan (1880-1972) was born into an Armenian family in Nor
    Nakhchivan. In 1895, he finished the Nakhchivan school and from
    1897-1904 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. Since 1921,
    the painter lived in Armenia and died in 1972 in Yerevan.
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