Thousands of products found in the home abstractionist Armenian-American Arthur Pinadzhana in Bellporte (New York), was estimated at $ 30 million

ARTHUR PINADZHAN
Untitled. 1960
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Collected works little known artist of Armenian-American Pinadzhana Arthur (1914-1999) is estimated at 30 million dollars. We are talking about approximately three thousand works, found in 2007 in a house and studio in Pinadzhana Bellporte (New York). The artist, who achieved no recognition during his lifetime, lived in this house for more than a modest Armen with his sister until his death in 1999. Pinadzhan throw bequeathed his collection, but his will was not executed. Thousands of drawings, sketches and paintings continued to gather dust in the workshop. After the death of her sister bought the house Armen investors Thomas Schultz and Larry Joseph for 300 thousand dollars. Finding the home of Pinadzhana, they pay another 2500 dollars for the right to possess them. Began excavations in the cave of Aladdin.

Creativity Arthur Pinadzhana was evaluated in a new way. Art historian William Innes Homer, in his monograph in 2010 called Pinadzhana "creative force to be reckoned with" and "one of the best artists of his time," particularly when it comes to his abstractions. Arthur Pinadzhan began in the 1930s as a cartoonist. And more specifically, the creator of the comic book. For example, he came up with a superhero Madame fatal. After World War II, for participation in which Pinadzhan was awarded the Bronze Star, the artist casts comics and begins to make art for myself. During this period, he had a studio in Woodstock. Pinadzhan created as figurative (nudes, portraits, landscapes, still lifes), and abstract work. "He went to the purposes alone, with dedication Gauguin or Cézanne, refusing to give up in the face of public indifference," - writes Innes Homer. Pinadzhan did not wait for the gallery or museum exhibitions. Nevertheless, he continued to work "on the table" in his workshop in Bellporte.

exhibition of Arthur Pinadzhana is now in Antiquorum Gallery on Madison Avenue. Among the 34 works presented two abstractions oil in 1960 are estimated at 87 and 72 thousand dollars. All assembly work Pinadzhana of bellportskoy workshop specialist Peter Hastings Falk estimated at $ 30 million.

Prepared Maria Onuchina, AI

Source: pinajianart.com , artinvestment.ru