"still Life With Peaches And Grapes" By Albert Papikian (1926-1997)

English → ALBERT PAPIKIAN 1926 - 1997 French Born in Nalband (Spitak district), Armenia. Studied at the Moscow Intermediate Art School (for gifted children) after winning an all-Soviet youth painting competition - graduated in 1941. Studied at the Tbilisi Academy of Arts in Georgia in 1942-1943. Attended the Repin Institute in Leningrad from 1944 to 1949 under Boris Loganson - his graduation project was "Stakhanovite Workers at Sevan Construction of the Hydroelectric Power Plant". After further studies at the Repin Institute after 1949. Began exhibiting in 1949 and eventually moved to Moscow - accepted into the Union of Russian Artists. Exhibited at the "All-Soviet Art Exhibition" in Moscow in 1950. Exhibited at the All-Soviet Art Exhibition in Moscow in 1951. Exhibited at the "Soviet-Russia" exhibition in Moscow in 1960. Died in Moscow in 1997. A posthumous exhibition was held in 2000 at the Moscow Academy of Fine Arts. His works are included in the permanent collections of the Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum, the Museum of the Academy of Fine Arts, the Naval Museum in St. Petersburg, the Tver Museum, the Smolensk Art Museum, and other regional museums in Russia. Specialized in Armenian landscapes and still lifes. Oil on canvas, signed lower left, countersigned, titled, and dated 1991 on the reverse. Provenance: on the stretcher, a stamp: Art Internacional Gallery, S. L P. P Format: 38 x 46 cm With gold frame: 55 x 63 cm