EXHIBITION OF ARSHILE GORKY’S WORKS OPENED IN PARIS

Noyan Tapan
Apr 05 2007

PARIS, APRIL 5, NOYAN TAPAN. An exhibition of American Armenian great
painter Arshile Gorky’s (Vostanik Adoyan, 1904-1948) works opened
on April 2 at the Pompidou Center of the Paris National Museum of
Modern Art and at the Calouste Gulbenkian cultural center within the
framework of the Year of Armenia in France. More than 40 canvases and
drawings of the painter which were brought from the U.S., Portugal,
England as well as from the Pompidou Center and separate individuals’
collections are presented.

Chairman of the George Pompidou Art and Culture National Center Bruno
Racine, Emilio Rui Vilar (Lisbon), the Administrative Council Chairman
of the Calouste Gulbenkian institution and Ambassador of Armenia Eduard
Nalbandian participated in opening of the exhibitions. According to
the information submitted to Noyan Tapan by the RA Foreign Ministry’s
Press and Information Department, A. Gorky’s wife, daugther and
grandchildran also participated in the ceremony.