Gevork Vartanovich Kotyants (1909 - 1996)

Gevork Vartanovich Kotyants

Gevork Vartanovich Kotyants (Russian: Геворк Вартанович Котьянц) was a Soviet and Russian artist of the second half of the twentieth century of Armenian origin. He is known as a painter, a representative of the Leningrad school.

Gevork Kotyants began his artistic career in 1948. His works cover various genres, including portraits, still lifes, landscapes and narrative compositions. The mid-1950s are marked by his particular devotion to decorative still life, in the work of which the master developed his own artistic style. He also created a small number of genre compositions and portraits, often using his family as models. In the 1990s, his works were successfully demonstrated at exhibitions and auctions of Russian painting in various countries, where they found their admirers.