Fifty-two paintings of a French-Armenian painter Edgar Chahin are displayed
in Louvre at an exhibition that is dedicated to prominent French painters. Son
of Edgar Chahin, Pierre, was among the guests, who were invited to attend the
opening ceremony.
The majority of Chahin’s paintings are from his Venetian series. Residents of
Venice, according to Pierre Chahin, admitted that no other painter felt the
illumination of the city as profoundly as Edgar Chahin. ‘My father used to spend
long months in Venice and was very much fond of it. Had not he met my mother in
Paris and married her he would have gone back to it to spend the rest of his
life there,’ Pierre Chin said.
The Armenian National Picture Gallery has a special hall with Chahin’s
canvases. Jean Claude Kebabjian, head of a Paris-based Center for Armenian
Diaspora Studies, said that they plan to post 800 paintings of Chahin in the
Internet.
Chahin was born in 1874 in Vienna, studied at a Venice-based Murat-Rafaelian
College and then at an art academy in Paris. He was awarded prizes and medals in
France, Italy and other countries. He was also awarded the French Legion of
Honor and illustrated books by famous French writers Anatole France, Gustav
Flobber and others. He presented 160 pictures (engravings) to Armenia.
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