I offer an excerpt from Sh Khachatryan "Museum warrior (stories of collectors of paintings), which is a unique source of picturesque Armenian culture. Author Shaen Gevorg Khachatryan - Honored Worker of Culture of Armenia. Since 1967, over 40 years he was director of the museum in Yerevan, Saryan, student, assistant and close friend of the great masters. Currently Sh Khachatryan - Advisor for Culture of the Armenian Apostolic Church - Catholicos Karekin II, the organizer of exhibitions of paintings M. Saryan, author of numerous books about his work.
And so, Shaen Khachatryan says:
"In the book" From My Life "Saryan says that at the turn of the 10-ies, he worked not only in tempera, and oil. But the paintings of that time, oil, I have never met. Employee gallery Mary Sarkisian advised me: "You'll be in Leningrad, come to my friend Rybakova. They have Sarian. It is a Rybakova and I saw a sheet 11-year, executed in oil. She got the picture, exchanging it for another saryanovsky landscape - the same time and also painted in oil. I found and the work and published it in the reproduction of one of the albums.
Both pictures are written in the same place - in Sambeke, where the artist spent his childhood. Both are marked sonority and color density picturesque textures. Later in the collection of Yerevan G. Tarverdyan I saw another oil Saryan's work in 1911, this time to still life. All sketches, the artist created in 1912 during a trip to the river Chorokhi in Artvin and Ardanuche, also painted in oil.
Soon I had brought "Mountain Landscape" in the museum. "
Currently in Moscow in the Olympic Avenue and Trifonovskaya streets are under construction of the Cathedral Church and the residence of Novo-Nakhichevan and Russia's Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church. On the stained glass windows of the Cathedral you can admire the works will Saryan.
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