1. Martiros Saryan
One of the greatest Armenian
painters of 20th century
2. Martiros Sarian memorial-
house
Martiros Sarian lived in the house-museum. The
government of Armenia built it for him.
The museum opened on November 26,1976.
4. He was born into an Armenian family in
Nor Nakhijevan. In 1895, aged 15, he
completed the Nakhichevan school
and from 1897 to 1904 studied at the
Moscow School of Arts.
11. “The colour is so beautiful that the
ages will secure Sarian,along with our
Matisse and Cezanne. Sarian’s
position is higher,for he is the artist of
happiness’’,wrote Louis Aragon.
12. There is a statue to Martiros Saryan in
Yerevan.