Marcos (Marco) Grigorian (1925 - 2007) was active/lived in New York, Minnesota / Iran, Islamic Republic of, Armenia. Marcos Grigorian is known for Modernist painting, sculpture, etching, acting, teaching, gallery owning.

Medium:Oil/Mixed Media
Size: 30" x 26"
Frame Size: 33" x 29"
Condition: Great, No Blemishes
Style: Modernist
Dated 53

Biography from the Archives of askART

Photo of Marcos Grigorian
GRIGORIAN, Marcos

(Marcos [better known as Marco] Grigorian, b. Kropotkin, Russia, 5 December 1925; d. Yerevan, 27 August 2007), Iranian-Armenian artist, actor, teacher, gallery owner, and collector who played a pioneering role in the development of Iranian modern art.

LIFE
The youngest of three children, Marco was born to Bagrat Grigorian and Šušanik Mangoian, both born in Kars, Armenia (Grigorian, 1989, p. 127). Before Marco was born, his parents defected to Kropotkin, Russia, and moved to Tabriz when he was five. In the same year Marco's mother died of appendicitis, and his father moved the family to Tehran. In 1937, his father remarried, and they moved to New Julfa, in Isfahan. Marco was fifteen when his family moved back to Tehran again in 1940. He attended Alborz College and later Kamal-al-Molk Art School in 1948. Upon graduation in 1950, Marco went to Rome, and enrolled at the Academia di Belle Arti. He studied with cubist sculptor Roberto Melli (1885-1958) and held several exhibitions while there.

Marco returned to Iran in 1954 and opened Gallery Esthetique, one of the first modern galleries in Tehran. A cosmopolitan and a multifaceted artist, Grigorian introduced the Iranian audience to the unconventional arts and innovative European sensibilities. He started collecting and promoting a form of folk art commonly known as coffeehouse painting (naqqaši-ye qahvakana: Šah-nama-related paintings and popular religious murals found in coffeehouses).


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