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    STEPANAKERT TO HAVE NATIONAL GALLERY

    Aysor.am
    03.02.2011, 15:03

    A National Gallery will be established in Stepanakert, with 300
    donated paintings already collected, benefactor, academician Grigor
    Gabrielyants, initiator of the idea, told a press conference in
    Yerevan.

    The benefactor himself has donated his collection of 21 paintings
    to the Gallery. The rest of the paintings have been donated from
    Mongolia, Ethiopia, Egypt, United States, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan,
    France and many other countries.

    There are many paintings by famous Russian painters.

    One hundred paintings have been donated by Armenian painters; there
    are canvases by Martiros Saryan, Minas. The Armenian Ministry of
    Culture has donated 5 paintings.

    The academician said that a building for the Gallery will be chosen
    soon, and the Gallery is expected to be opened in 2011 August.




    From: A. Papazian
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