EXHIBITION OF MARTIROS SARYAN’S WORKS TO BE ORGANIZED IN MOSCOW TRETYAKOV STATE GALLERY

ARMENPRESS
NOVEMBER 12, 2009
YEREVAN

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 12, ARMENPRESS: An exhibition of Martiros Saryan’s
works will be organized in 2010 in Moscow Tretyakov State Gallery on
the occasion of the painter’s 130th anniversary. Sixty six paintings
and graphic works will be presented. In 2010 is the 100th anniversary
of entrance of Martiros Saryan’s works to Tretyakov Gallery.

Director of Martiros Saryan House-Museum Ruzan Saryan told Armenpress
that within the program of the municipality a memory board will be
put up on the building, in one of the flats of which M. Saryan lived
in 1937-70 years. Saryan unique days are expected to be organized in
the Russian capital as well.

An album of Saryan’s paintings will be published within the frameworks
of the anniversary year in Armenia. And on the painter’s birthday an
exhibition of photos will open. R. Saryan attached great importance to
the publication of the Armenian version of "Armenian Folk Fairytales"
Russian book. This book has been published for three times, in 1930,
1933 and 1939. And every time the master has designed it in a new way",
R. Saryan said. For the first publication M. Saryan has created not
subject images, but extracts presenting Armenian peasant life and
rituals extending around Armenian architectural monuments.