Alexander Bazhbeuk-Melikyan (1891-1966)

Portrait of Irina

 Alexander Bazhbeuk-Melikyan was one of the greatest Armenian Soviet painters and Honored Artist of the Georgian SSR (1961) who lived all his life in Tbilisi.Bazhbeuk-Melikyan's great subject was nude women . Many of his paintings present nude women; others depict exotically dressed women in the role of juggler, acrobat or magician.