"The Old Shepherd", 1957, Oil on Canvas, 42,5x31 cm, signed verso by
Nalbandyan Dmitry Arkadyevich (1906–1993)
Master of ceremonial portrait. Also worked in genres of landscape and still-life.
A Full member of the Academy of Fine Arts of the USSR. People’s Artist of the USSR. Laureate of Stalin Prize (1946, 1951), Lenin Prize (1982).
Studied at the Tbilissi Academy of Fine Arts, student of E. Lancere (1924 - 1929).
In 1931 moved to Moscow.
During his long artist’s life he made portraits of many representatives of political elite (including Stalin, Khrushev, Brezhnev), and received among the artists the informal nickname “first brush of Politburo”.
For a group portrait of representatives of Armenian culture – “Varnatun” (1974-1976) was awarded with Gold Medal of the Academy of Fine Arts of the USSR in 1978.
Nalbandyan’s paintings are exhibited at The State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow) and other leading museums of Russia and former USSR.
His self-portrait is in “Uffizi” Gallery in Florence since 1982.
