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Sarkis Katchadourian (1886–1947), an Armenian painter, used copying as a means of transmitting ancient wall paintings. In 1932 the Museum of Modern Art presented his reconstructions after seventeenth-century originals in Isfahan. The exhibition brought into a museum images associated with particular buildings and distant places.
His research continued in South Asia: Polonnaruva (Woman among Trees), around 1935, in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, records a mural fragment from Sri Lanka in watercolour. The Metropolitan Museum holds a male figure in European dress holding a bottle, executed in tempera on paper. His repertoire also includes landscape: Mount Ararat, in Leamington Spa, sets two reclining figures before the snowy mountain. Across recording, figure painting and landscape, these works reveal different relationships with artistic heritage and with the land.
This profile brings together identity references for Sarkis Katchadourian and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
Dobiaschofsky · Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer · Piguet
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Mixed media, possibly on paper
L'offrande,
technique mixte possiblement sur papier
Catalogue period : 2023-11-22 — 2023-12-06
Published result : 650 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 1000–1500
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Oil on canvas
La mosquée bleue en hiver
huile sur toile
Catalogue period : 2013-06-15
Published result : 3888 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 5000–7000
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Bettlerfamilie am Wegrand.
Öl auf Lwd
Date to be documented
Published result : 1800 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 2300
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