EXHIBITION "ARMENIAN PAINTING IN 1830-1930" OPENED IN PARIS
Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Jun 25 2007
PARIS, JUNE 25, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. The exhibition
"Armenian Painting in 1830-1930" opened in the museum Pti Pale in
Paris on June 20.
Nearly fourty portraits, landscape paintings, drawings, and canvases
on historical subjects by great Armenian painters, such as Hakob
Hovnatanian, Hovhannes Ayvazovski, Gevorg Bashinjaghian, Vardges
Sureniants, Stepan Aghajanian, Phanos Terlemezian, Yenovk Nazariants,
Yeghishe Tadevosian, Vano Khojabekian, Martiros Sarian, and Georgi
Yakulov, are presented at the exhibition held within the framework
of the Year of Armenia in France. The Painting museum in Paris and
the Armenian National Gallery have taken part in the preparations of
this exhibition.
The exhibition will be open till August 19 and during this period,
on June 23, 27 and 30, lectures on Armenian art will be organized in
the museum Pti Pale.
According to the information provided to Noyan Tapan by the RA
Foreign Ministry’s Press and Information Department, the exhibition
"The Boyajians as photographers of the Negus palace" opened in the
Big hall of the palace Syuli on the previous day and it will be open
till September 2. This exhibition tells about the unique fate of the
Boyajians, a number of offsprings of which were palace photographers
of the royal house Yetovpia.
Hundreds of valuable photographs, artefacts and explanatory texts
are being exhibited.