[1] Hagopian was awarded the honorary title of People's Artist of the Armenian SSR and won the State Prize of Armenia.

He took on his early education at Melkonian Armenian school in Cyprus.

He also studied at the studio of renowned painter Andre L’Hote during his stay in Paris.

His early works are small-size oils: one-figure compositions in interiors and still lifes.

[2] His personages are social or occupational types, static figures circumscribed by a space limited in depth, their mood of constraint and isolation suggest a miserable existence.