Armine Kalents

[4] Paronyan’s father died when she was a baby, and her mother had to escape with Armine and her older brother Aram.

[2] In 1947, the first exhibition of the repatriates was organized and Kalents’ works were criticized for “imitation of bourgeois painting”.

[3] Since 1962, Kalents’ solo exhibitions have been organized in Yerevan, Aleppo, Paris, Montreal and Tbilisi.

[8] In this book, she draws a realistic portrait of the great Armenian artist of the twentieth century, Haroutiun Kalents, telling the story of their love and difficult family relationships.

[9] In 2000, a retrospective solo exhibition devoted to Kalents’ 80th anniversary was organized at the Artists’ Union of Armenia.

Her last exhibition was organized in the Hall of Albert and Tove Boyajians in State Academy of Fine Arts of Armenia in October 2004.