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Yeghishe Martirosi Tadevosyan (Armenian:Եղիշե Մարտիրոսի Թադևոսյան; 24 September 1870 – 22 January 1936) was aSoviet Armenian painter,[1] associated with thePeredvizhniki andMir Iskusstva movements. He was known for his landscape and portrait paintings.[1] Tadevosyan was awarded the title of "Honored Artist" by theArmenian SSR in 1935.
Yeghishe Martirosi Tadevosyan was born on 24 September 1870 inEtchmiadzin,Russian Empire (now known as Vagharshapat, Armenia).
He studied at theLazarian School, then entered theMoscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.Vasily Polenov was his teacher and friend.[2] He graduated in 1894 and participated in an exhibition of thePeredvizhniki in the same year.
In 1898, he travelled to Palestine with Polenov and would revisit the Middle East several times. In 1901, he moved from Moscow to Tbilisi and became an art teacher.
His early work had been influenced byVardges Sureniants but, after this time, he began to employimpressionistic andpointillistic techniques. In 1916, he became one of the four founders and the elected head of the Union of Armenian Artists.
Yeghishe Tadevosyan died on 22 January 1936 inTbilisi and is buried atKomitas Pantheon which is located in the city center of Yerevan.[3]
Tadevosyan's name is used for a street in Yerevan,[4] and he is the namesake of an art school in Etchmiadzin (now Vagharshapat).[5] In 2015, a bust of Tadevosyan's head was unveiled in theShengavit District in Yerevan.[1] His worksSelf-portrait,Canal and Gondola, andOne of My Dreams were reproduced on the postal stamps of Armenia in 1997 and 2020.[6]
In 2015 to 2016, theNational Gallery of Armenia held a retrospective of his work.[7]