Marcos Grigorian was born in Russia in 1925 and passed away in Armenia in 2007. During his life, he lived in Iran, Italy, the US, and Armenia. In the late 1950s, he became one of the first artists to commemorate the Holocaust with a series of murals titled “The Gates of Auschwitz.” He called the work as “a 120 feet long cry of horror.” Grigorian was an artist, a curator, a collector, a teacher, and an actor – leaving an incredible mark on the visual culture of the twentieth century. Grigorian’s art is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tate Modern, the British Museum, the Grey Gallery of NYU, the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, the National Gallery, the Near East Museum in Armenia, and the Nelson Rockefeller Collection.
Tree of Life, 1961
Mixed media, compound on canvas
109.86h x 45.72w cm
Vibration #4, 1963
Straw and earth compound on another compound on burlap
24h x 20w in
60.96h x 50.80w cm
Earth work, 1963
Mixed media and soil on canvas
85.09h x 41.91w x 6.35d cm
Upstairs Downstairs, 1968
Straw and earth compound on another compound on burlap
182.88h x 91.44w cm
Sangak Bread, 1966
49.50h x 30w in
125.73h x 76.20w cm
Full Loaf, 1966
Acrylic And Glazed Bread On Burlap
39.25h x 30.25w in
99.70h x 76.84w cm
Sangak, 1967
Persian bread, stones and resin on earth, compound on burlap
56.25h x 31.50w in
142.88h x 80.01w cm
Dizy Abqoust #3, 1979
Bread, sugar, ceramic and food sealed in resin
25.50h x 25w in
64.77h x 63.50w cm
Sign of Eternity, 1982 - 1988
72h x 72w in
182.88h x 182.88w cm
Straw Triptych, 1982 - 1988
Panel 1 Of Similar Earth Works
32h x 72w in
81.28h x 182.88w cm
Horizontal earth work, 1982 - 1988
74h x 74w in
187.96h x 187.96w cm
Eclipse, 1988
Mixed media on panel
31.25h x 25.50w x 6d in
79.38h x 64.77w x 15.24d cm
Eclipse, 1988
Found construction object on acrylic mixed media compound on board
32h x 23.33w in
81.28h x 59.27w cm
