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Sarkis Diranian (Armenian: Սարգիս Տիրանեան; 1854 - 1938) was an Armenian orientalist painter.[1] Originally from the Ottoman Empire, he was established for many years in Paris.

Sarkis Diranian Սարգիս Տիրանեան
Born	1854 Constantinople (now Istanbul), Ottoman Empire
Died	1938(1938-00-00) (aged 83–84) Paris, France
Occupation	Painter

Life

Diranian was born in 1854 in Constantinople and studied art at the school of drawing and painting opened on Hamalbaşi Street in Beyoglu by the French artist Pierre Desire Guillemet in 1875.[2] His painting The Enchantress was exhibited in the photography studio of the Abdullah Freres in Beyoglu in 1883, and on the proceeds from its sale he went to Paris and worked in the studio of Jean-Léon Gérôme.[2] In the year 1883 or 1884, while still in Paris, he was awarded the Mecidiye order by the Ottoman government, and in 1887 the Ottoman Ministry of Education began to pay him a monthly allowance.[2] In 1889 he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Paris, and until 1910 he participated in the exhibitions of the Societe des Artistes Francais in Paris.[3] In 1892 and 1900 he won the prize of honor at the international Paris exhibitions. In 1908 he held a one-person exhibition in Paris and in 1909 participated in a mixed exhibition in Munich.[3] He died in Paris in 1938.

Works

His major works include Woman Tying a Rose (1897), The Dancer and Five O'Clock exhibited in Paris in 1910, Naked Woman in the collection at the Dolmabahce Palace, and Children Playing Knuckbones in the collection of the presidential residence in Ankara.

See also

• List of Orientalist artists
• Orientalism

References

На других языках

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[de] Sarkis Diranian

Sarkis Diranian (armenisch Սարգիս Տիրանեան, * 17. Februar 1859 in Konstantinopel; † 20. Januar 1938 in Paris) war ein in Frankreich tätiger armenischer Genre-, Akt- und Landschaftsmaler sowie Maler des Orientalismus.

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- [en] Sarkis Diranian

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[fr] Sarkis Diranian

Sarkis Diranian ou Serkis Diranian (en arménien : Սարգիս Տիրանեան), né le 17 février 1859 à Constantinople, dans l'Empire ottoman, et mort le 20 janvier 1938 à Paris, en France, est un peintre orientaliste ottoman d'origine arménienne[1] ayant passé la plus large partie de sa vie à Paris.

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