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Lavinia Bazhbeuk-Melikyan (Armenian: Լավինիա Բաժբեուկ-Մելիքյան, April 3, 1922 – November 8, 2005) was a Soviet-Armenian painter who was a full member of the Russian Academy of Arts,[1] and a People's Artist of the Armenian SSR.

Lavinia Bazhbeuk-Melikyan
Self-Portrait in a Turban (1976), Oil on canvas
Born	April 3, 1922 Tbilisi, Georgia
Died	November 8, 2005 Yerevan, Armenia
Known for	Fine Art
Awards	People's Artist of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic

Biography

Lavinia Bazhbeuk-Melikyan was born in 1922 in Tbilisi in the family of artist, graphic designer and sculptor Alexander Bazhbeuk-Melikyan. In 1935 she moved to Yerevan, studied at the Yerevan State College of Fine Arts named after Panos Terlemezyan. In 1951 she graduated from the Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after V.N. Surikov. In Pavel Korin’s studios she worked on the creation of the inlaid panels for Moscow “Komsomolskaya” metro station.

From 1962-1964 Lavinia had been a member of the board of administration for the Artists’ Artists Union, she was the delegate of the 2nd All-union congress of artists.

Since 1988 she was a corresponding member of the Art Academy of Russia, since 1997 – the Honored Art Worker of Russian Federation. Since 2002 – a full member of the Russian Academy of Arts.

Her works are kept in Modern Art Museum (Yerevan), National Gallery of Armenia (Yerevan), artistic funds of Armenia and Russia and in many private galleries and collections in different countries of the world.

Lavinia Bazhbeuk-Melikyan died on November 8, 2005.[2]

Exhibitions

Since 1951 Lavinia was a constant participant of republican, all-union and international exhibitions.

• Painters house, Yerevan, 1979[3]
• Moscow, 1980[4]

Personal exhibitions

• 1979 – Yerevan
• 1980 – Moscow
• 1989 – Luanda, Angola
• 01.10.2008 -14.10.2008 Artists' Union of Armenia, Yerevan
• 10.04.2007 - 06.05.2007 Russian Academy of Artists, Moscow[5]

Awards

• 1967 – Honored artist of Armenian
• 1970 – she was awarded the Gold Medal of the USSR exhibition of economic achievements (VDNKH), Moscow
• 1974 – for the portraits series was awarded the Diploma of the USSR Artists’ Union.
• 1983 – People’s artist of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic
• 1997 – Honored Artist of the Russian Federation

Works

• Father's-Alexander Bazhbeuk-Melikyan's portrait (1960)
• Mother (1961)
• Still life with books (1970)
• Self-portrait (1978)
• Painter Nina Zhilinskaya (1984)
• Aghabalyants sisters' portrait (1994)
• M. Khachatryan's portrait (1996)
• The Cactuses

References

External link

• Media related to Lavinia Bazhbeuk-Melikyan at Wikimedia Commons
• Yerevan State College of Fine Arts named after Panos Terlemezyan (official website, in Armenian)

На других языках

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- [en] Lavinia Bazhbeuk-Melikyan

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[fr] Lavinia Bazhbeuk-Melikyan

Lavinia Bazhbeuk-Melikyan (arménien : Լավինիա Բաժբեուկ-Մելիքյան ; née le 3 avril 1922 et décédée le 8 novembre 2005) est une artiste soviétique arménienne. Elle est membre de l'Académie russe des Arts[1], artiste du peuple de la RSS d'Arménie.

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[ru] Бажбеук-Меликян, Лавиния Александровна

Лавиния Александровна Бажбеук-Меликян (3 апреля 1922, Тифлис, Грузинская ССР, СССР — 8 ноября 2005, Ереван, Армения) — советская, российская и армянская художница. Народный художник Армянской ССР (1983). Заслуженный деятель искусств Российской Федерации (1997). Действительный член Российской академии художеств (2002)[1].

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