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Modern Totem
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Description
Modern Totem
Painted Wood
Modern Totem was Exhibited at:
Cheudevres of Cubiste, Surrealiste and Abstractioniste at the Leonce Rosenberg Gallerie", Paris, 1934
Armenian sculptor and painter. Kotchar, studied under the Armenian painter Egish Tatevosyan (1870-1936) at the Tiflis Art School of the Caucasian Society for the Encouragement of the Arts (1914-18) and under Pyotr Konchalovsky at Svomas (the Free Art Studios) in Moscow (1918-19). During his early period his painting was heavily influenced by French modernism, especially Impressionism (e.g. De Profundis, 1919; Erevan, N.A.G. Armenia). From 1923 to 1936 he lived in Paris, where he used a wide range of media and styles, including Symbolism.
Some exhibition records for Kotchar:
1923
Personal Exhibition, Paris, 23 September
1924
"Salon des Independants", Paris, 19 February - 13 March
"Salon d'Automne", Paris
1925
"L'ART d'Aujourd'hui", Paris
1926
"Salon d'Automne", Paris
Personal exhibitions, Galerie "Au Sacre du Printemps", Paris, 28 Octobre - 13 Novembre
1928
"Salon des Independants", Paris
Personal Exhibition at the Galerie Van Leer, Paris, 17-30 November
1930
Exhibition "Confrontation" at the Gallerie "Fenktre ouverte", Paris
1932
Participation in exhibition "Cheudevres of cubiste, surrealiste and abstractioniste at the Leonce Rosenberg Gallerie", Paris
1934
Personal Exhibition "Kotchar. Painting. Sculpture. Graphics." at the Gallerie "Vignon", Paris
1966
Exhibition "Kotchar et la peinture dans l'espace" at the Galerie Percier, Paris
1989
Retrospective exhibition at the Galerie Basmadjian, Paris, 18 May - 9 September -
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Documentation: Signed Period: 1920-1949 Condition: Good. Styles / Movements: Modern Incollect Reference #: 724053
