YEREVAN, AUGUST 20, NOYAN TAPAN. Edward Isabekian, an Armenian people's painter, a professor, a laurate for a state prize, a citizen of honour of Yerevan, died at the age of 93 in Ashtarak on the morning of August 19. According to the information provided to Noyan Tapan by the RA Union of Painters, the dirge of the painter will take place in the appartment 20, Sayat Nova 51, Yerevan at 18:00 on August 21. Art loving society will take its final leave of the painter in the Yerevan Chamber Music House on August 22. Edward Isabekian was born in Igdir in 1914. In 1931 he graduated from the Geghard technical college and in 1941 the Art Academy of Tbilisi. He taught in the Yerevan Art Theatre Institute between 1945 to 2000. He was the head of the Armenian National Gallery from 1967 to 1986.

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