![]() While most of his work reflected the Armenian landscape, he also designed the coat of arms for Armenian SSR and designed the curtain for the first Armenian state theatre. It was there that he helped organise the Society of Armenian Artists.Īfter the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917 he went with his family to live in Russia. In 1916 he traveled to Tiflis (now Tbilisi) where he married Lusik Agayan. In 1915 he went to Echmiadzin to help refugees who had fled from the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire. ![]() ![]() He composed his first landscapes depicting Armenia: Makravank, 1902 Aragats, 1902 Buffalo.įrom 1910 to 1913 he traveled extensively in Turkey, Egypt and Iran. He first visited Armenia, then part of the Russian Empire, in 1901, visiting Lori, Shirak, Echmiadzin, Haghpat, Sanahin, Yerevan and Sevan. ![]() He had works shown at the Blue Rose Exhibit in Moscow. He was heavily influenced by the work of Paul Gauguin and Henri Matisse. ![]()
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