martiros saryan (1880-1972)1

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Martiros Saryan (1880 – 1972) 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 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 which were highly praised in the Moscow press. 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 he returned to the Soviet Union. From 1928 until his death, Saryan lived in Soviet Armenia.

His former home in Yerevan is now a museum dedicated to his work with hundreds of items on display

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Irises and poppies 1947

Bouquet of flowers -1945

Bright flowers - 1942

Flowers of Kalaki 1914

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For the Armenians-fighters, veterans of World War II -1945

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Poppy 1940 Wild poppies 1945

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Lusik Saryan - 1941

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Lilacs, 1955

Still Life with Flowers, 1928

Still life 1913

Roses 1949

Lotus 1911

May flowers - 1947

May roses - 1939

Poppies - 1958

Sketch of book cover 'Martiros Saryan' 1935

Sketch of book cover Yellow flowers-1914

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The Gifts of Spring - 1968

Wistaria - 1923

Wistaria - 1910

Yellow flowers 1944

Still Life (Cyclamen) -1940

Flowers, lemons, oranges. 1953

Wildflowers 1910

"Nature's ways are wonderful and unfathomable. The grain swells in the soil, the sprout grows and flowers when the time comes and then it bears new fruit and so does not die. We are like grain. We never die because we are One with Nature. To understand this is to comprehend Immortality--the Apotheosis of the Human Race. It is with this conviction that I have lived my Life. My Life is a store of my experience, a Life of aspirations, sorrows, joys and triumphs."

Martiros Saryan.

Wildflowers 1951

Meadow flowers 1918

Flowers 1946

Red flowers-1910

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