1909 - 1994
People's Artist Of The Armenian SSR

Short Biography

  • Born in Armenia.
  • Studied in Armenia under S.M.Agadzhanyan and S.A.Arakelyan 1922-1927.
  • Moscow Graduate Art School under S.V.Gerasimov 1930-1931.
    In Leningrad under A.A.Osmerkin.
  • First exhibition took place in Yerevan in 1932.
  • Taught in Yerevan 1937-1944 and 1954-1959.
  • Major themes are illustrations of Armenian epics and legends.
  • Died in Armenia in 1994.

Major International Exhibitions

  • 1938 - London.
  • 1949 - Budapest.
  • 1952 - Delhi.
  • 1961 - Bucharest.
  • 1961 - San Paolo.
  • 1962 - Montevideo.
  • 1962 - New York.
  • 1963 - New York.

Museum Collections

  • Tretiakov Gallery, Moscow.
  • Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.
  • Armenian Fine Art Museum, Yerevan.
  • Museum of Literature, Yerevan.
  • Fine Art Museum, Tula.
  • Kaunas Art Museum, Lithuania.
  • Tallin Art Museum, Estonia.
  • Tbilisi Fine Art Gallery, Georgia.
Private Collections in England, USA, Russia, Armenia, France, Italy.

Selected Bibliography

  • A.Sidorov, "Soviet Art". Graphica. Moscow, 1949.
  • C.Chegodaev, "Soviet Art After Second World War". Moscow, 1956.
  • A.Kamenskii, "A.Abeghian". Moscow, 1956.
  • I.Stepanian, I.Nersesov, "Mher Abeghian". Linocuts. Yerevan, 1988.
  • "Great Soviet Encyclopedia", 3d edition, Vol.1.
  • E.Benezit, "Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs", Vol.1.
  • "People's Artists of the USSR Bibliographic Dictionary", Moscow, 1970
  • "Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Artists". Woodbridge. England, 1994.

Works


Gathering Fruits.
25x24 cm.
Signed and titled by pencil.
Dated 1933.

In the Gardens of Nork.
28x25 cm.
Signed and titled by pencil.
Dated 1935.

The Sun Cliffs.
50x36 cm.
Signed and titled by pencil.
Dated 1958.

Landscape with Buffalo.
30x36 cm.
Signed and titled.
Dated 1959.

Morning in Bzni.
39x39 cm.
Signed by pencil.
Dated 1959.

Gathering Peaches.
41x56 cm.
Signed.
Dated 1961.

Gathering Peaches.
46x50 cm.
Signed.
Dated 1962.

Girl with a Goat.
49x49 cm.
Signed.
Dated 1962.

Sayat-Nova.
60x45 cm.
Signed.
Dated 1962.

Motherhood (A Hot Day).
37x45 cm.
Signed.
Dated 1963.

Vintage Feast.
37x47 cm.
Signed.
Dated 1963.

It is Spring in the Mountains
(First Vesion).
45x64 cm.
Signed.
Dated 1964.

Lake Sevan.
29x40 cm.
Signed.
Dated 1964.

A Biurakan Motif.
42x50 cm.
Signed.
Dated 1965.

Going Home.
38x53 cm.
Signed.
Dated 1965.

Blue Masis.
Colored linocut. 49x52 cm.
Signed.
Dated 1965.

Still Life.
Colored linocut. 36x26 cm.
Signed.
Dated 1965.

Biurakan Gorge.
35x48 cm.
Signed in plate.
Dated 1973.

Mountainous Armenia.
37x46 cm.
Signed.
Dated 1980.

A Lonely Tree.
32x24 cm.
Signed.
Dated 1985.