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Armand Tatossian BIOGRAPHY
1951 Alexandria, Egypt - 2012 Montreal, Quebec. Known for: Impressionist landscape painting.
Armand Tatossian was born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1951. Art was in his blood. His grandfather, and namesake, was a painter and curator of the Alexandria Museum of Egypt. His great-uncle was Armenian... Read full biography
Armand Tatossian was born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1951. Art was in his blood. His grandfather, and namesake, was a painter and curator of the Alexandria Museum of Egypt. His great-uncle was Armenian landscape painter and Post-Impressionist Yeghiche Tatossian. The passion was passed through the... Read full biography
Armand Tatossian was born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1951. Art was in his blood. His grandfather, and namesake, was a painter and curator of the Alexandria Museum of Egypt. His great-uncle was Armenian landscape painter and Post-Impressionist Yeghiche Tatossian. The passion was passed through the generations to his father, painter Charles Tatossian, and finally to Armand. He was introduced to art at the age young of six, when his grandfather took him to a beach with a sketch pad. At a young age,... Read full biography
Armand Tatossian was born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1951. Art was in his blood. His grandfather, and namesake, was a painter and curator of the Alexandria Museum of Egypt. His great-uncle was Armenian landscape painter and Post-Impressionist Yeghiche Tatossian. The passion was passed through the generations to his father, painter Charles Tatossian, and finally to Armand. He was introduced to art at the age young of six, when his grandfather took him to a beach with a sketch pad. At a young age, he became the assistant to Adam Sherriff-Scott, helping him restore his older murals. Sherriff-Scott refused to pay him, offering to teach the young artist instead. Tatossian was the only student ever to be accepted by Sherriff-Scott. He was made to... Read full biography
Armand Tatossian was born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1951. Art was in his blood. His grandfather, and namesake, was a painter and curator of the Alexandria Museum of Egypt. His great-uncle was Armenian landscape painter and Post-Impressionist Yeghiche Tatossian. The passion was passed through the generations to his father, painter Charles Tatossian, and finally to Armand. He was introduced to art at the age young of six, when his grandfather took him to a beach with a sketch pad. At a young age, he became the assistant to Adam Sherriff-Scott, helping him restore his older murals. Sherriff-Scott refused to pay him, offering to teach the young artist instead. Tatossian was the only student ever to be accepted by Sherriff-Scott. He was made to study John Ruskin's The Elements of Drawing (1857). Sherriff-Scott insisted that his st... Read full biography
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Armand Tatossian was born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1951. Art was in his blood. His grandfather, and namesake, was a painter and curator of the Alexandria Museum of Egypt. His great-uncle was Armenian landscape painter and Post-Impressionist Yeghiche Tatossian. The passion was passed through the generations to his father, painter Charles Tatossian, and finally to Armand.
He was introduced to art at the age young of six, when his grandfather took him to a beach with a sketch pad. At a young age, he became the assistant to Adam Sherriff-Scott, helping him restore his older murals. Sherriff-Scott refused to pay him, offering to teach the young artist instead.
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