Lot 737: DMITRI NALBANDIAN

RUSSIAN, 1906 - 1993
PEASANT DANCE

measurements
20 by 21 in.

alternate measurements
50.8 by 53.4 cm

inscribed in Cyrillic and dated 1957 (lower left); also signed and inscribed in Cyrillic and dated 1957 (on the stretcher)

oil on canvas

PROVENANCE

Dmitri Nalbandian
Acquired by the current owner directly from the above circa 1991

EXHIBITED

Moscow, Central House of the Artst, Manége, Personal Exhibition, The 70th Birthday Anniversary of Dmitri Nalbandian, 1976
Moscow, Central House of the Artst, Manége, Personal Exhibition, The 80th Birthday Anniversary of Dmitri Nalbandian, 1986

LITERATURE

Dmitrii Nalbandian, Moscow: Izobrazitelnoe Iskusstvo, 1986, pl. 77, illustrated
Dmitrii Nalbandian, Moscow: Izobrazitelnoe Iskusstvo, 1982, pl. 23, illustrated

NOTE

During his lifetime Nalbandian enjoyed great popularity and after his death his studio became The State Museum and House of Nalbandian. Dmitri Nalbandian was born in 1906 in Tiflis to an Armenian family, and exhibited his artistic gifts at an early age. In 1924 Nalbandian entered the Art Academy of Georgia where his teachers were E.E. Lancere and E.M.Tatevosian.