Lot 130: DIKRAN DADERIAN MID CENTURY GOUACHE

Mid Century Dikran Daderian (b. 1929) Gouache on Paper 1961. Signed and dated lower right. Professionally framed and matted. In frame measures 14"x12"x1 1/2". Weight 2 pds 9 oz. Dikran Daderian was born in 1929 in Beirut. He spent his childhood, attended the Melkonian Institute in Cyprus and went on to pursue his studies at the National School of Arts in Paris, the Goetz Academy and Gran Shomier Academy. During that period, he became friends with Vera de Silva, Hans Hartung, Fontana, Klein, Sartre, Aragon. Since 1957, he has held several personal exhibitions and group exhibitions in Armenia, Lebanon and France. He was notably a participant of the “Salon Comparaisons”, the “Salons des réalités nouvelles” and the ” Salon de Mai”. He has also taught at the Goetz Academy, which was renamed as the Goetz-Daderian Academy (Académie Goetz-Daderian) in 1983. His work can be seen in several museums including the Museum of Modern Art in Paris. PROVENANCE: A Private Charleston SC Estate

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