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  • Unidentified watercolours

    In Yerevan in the 1990s I bought some watercolours depicting khachkars. I don't know the name of the artist. There is a short pen-writen inscription on each watercolour. I think the first part of it might describe the subject and the word after the 1992 date might be the artist's name - but I can't decipher it. Can anyone?

    Three of the inscriptions
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    Re: Unidentified watercolours

    Here is a complete view of two of them.

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    They seem similar in style (especially in the sky) to some of Grigor Avagyan's paintings http://armgallery.com/exhibition-of-grigor-avagyan/
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      Re: Unidentified watercolours

      It reads "Grigor Avagyan, 1992, Yerevan"

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        Re: Unidentified watercolours

        Thanks. So they are by Avagyan!
        Now that I look at the writing again (or, rather, look carefully at the scans rather than just at the paintings) I see it is clearly Yerevan after the date and the words before the date are identical in all of them.
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          Re: Unidentified watercolours

          bell, do you know the story behind this painting?

          It is a painting by Vardges Surenyants called "Desecrated Shrine" (1895). Perhaps an artistic response to the Hamidian massacres?
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            Re: Unidentified watercolours

            Originally posted by TomServo View Post
            It is a painting by Vardges Surenyants called "Desecrated Shrine" (1895). Perhaps an artistic response to the Hamidian massacres?
            Yes you are right. There is a short passage about that painting in a German book I've got that says as much - will need to scan it to properly machine translate it. But the painting actually depicts parts of the interior of Hovhanavank monastery, which was inside Russian controlled territory in 1895.

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              Re: Unidentified watercolours

              Thanks, bell. The Hamidian massacres haven't received as much scholarly scrutiny as 1915; there's probably a wealth of primary material related to it and the Adana massacre but they aren't studied as much as 1915.

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