Martiros Saryan1880–1972Лимоны
Can I see it?
Unknown
Where is “Лимоны” now? Collection: Kursk State Art Gallery, Kursk. Unknown.
Kursk State Art Gallery
Kursk, Russia
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
Details
- Accession number
- Ж 1233
In the catalog
Sources
- The State Catalogue of the Museum Fund of Russia
- Image: Kursk State Art Gallery — © Курская государственная картинная галерея имени А. А. Дейнеки · Госкаталог музейного фонда РФ
In the life of Martiros Saryan
The whole life1936 · Award
Order of the Red Banner of Labour
early 1937
NKVD burns portraits of “enemies of the people”
In early 1937 the Armenian NKVD decides to remove from museums and burn 12 portraits of “enemies of the people” — prominent public figures and intellectuals painted by Saryan: 11 works are destroyed, the twelfth vanishes. The “Portrait of the Poet Yeghishe Charents” is saved by museum staff, who hide it at risk to their lives; other accounts say it survived because it was held in a different museum.
4 November 1939 · Award
Order of the Badge of Honour
