Richard Jeranian ( 1921- )

Lebanon

Richard Jeranian was an Artist, of Armenian Descent, moved from Turkey to Paris in 1930s, where he continued his studies in Paris at the Academie Julian and Academie de la Grande Chaumiere.Richard Jeranian gained recognition as an painter of stylized landscapes and still-lifes and abstract drawings in colored ink.

Sedrak Arakelian (1884–1942)

Sedrak Arakelian  ( Arakelovitch ) was a genre painter of landscapes, who was a student of Yegishe Tadevosyan. Later he studied at the Faculty of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Moscow (1916).

Petros Konturajian (1905-56)

Townscape

Petros Konturajian was an Armenian Painter who gained recognition as an illustrator and artist of successful painter of the city under the influence of Cubism.


Source
Art Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan , Hayastani Petakan Patkerasrah, Martin Mikaelian, 1984, 159 pages

Leon Tutundjian (1905-1968)

Leon Tutundjian was an Artist, of Armenian origins, moved from Athens to Paris in 1924, where he initially frequented the Academic Rossi to then open up to Cubism. In 1926 he visited a Picasso exhibition at the Paul Rosenberg Gallery. He was struck by the artist's collages, but also by a painting with glass bead inserts.

Untitled, 1929

 Leon Tutundjian's collages reveal the Cubist heritage in the play of quadrangular and curved forms, but these geometric shapes are then overlapped with heterogeneous elements such as engravings, anatomical drawings, fragments of texts and portraits of famous personalities.



Sources

Sculpture 1900-1945: After Rodin by Penelope Curtis
Collage/collages: from cubism to new dada by Cristina Garbagna