Bagrat Grigorian (Armenian: Բագրատ Գրիգորյան,[citation needed] March 4, 1939 — September 21, 1992) was an Armenian painter.

Bagrat Grigorian
Born(1939-03-04)March 4, 1939
DiedSeptember 21, 1992(1992-09-21) (aged 53)
NationalityArmenian
EducationPanos Terlemezian Art College and Yerevan Fine Arts Institute, Yerevan, Armenia
Known forPainting, drawing
Notable workAspet (1976)
MovementCubism, Surrealism, abstract expressionism

He was born in Leninakan, Gyumri in 1939. After attending Panos Terlemezian Art College, he worked under local artists H. Ananikian and S. Mirzoyan from 1957. He attended art college in Yerevan (1960–63) and obtained a degree from that city's Institute of Fine Arts and Drama in 1967. His first major solo exhibition, held in 1971, led to him being banned from exhibiting again, although he continued to participate in group exhibitions in Armenia, Estonia and France during the 1970s. Solo exhibitions in Paris and Los Angeles in the late 1970s or early 1980s led to his works being widely exhibited across Europe and in Canada, Russia, USA,[1][2] Beirut and elsewhere.[3]

After his death, forty of his works were exhibited in the National Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan.[3] His works are held there and at the Modern Art Museum of Yerevan, the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow and elsewhere.[3][4]

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  1. ^ Nonconformist Art: The Soviet Experience, 1956-1986 : the Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection, the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.
  2. ^ Rosenfeld, Alla; Dodge, Norton T. (1995). "From Gulag to Glasnost: Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union : the Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection, the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey".
  3. ^ a b c Grigorian Bagrat, Modern Art Museum of Yerevan, archived from the original on 27 December 2015, retrieved 19 November 2016
  4. ^ Search Results: Գրիգորյան Բագրատ Աշոտի, National Gallery of Armenia, retrieved 19 November 2016

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