Sumbat Der Kiureghian (Armenian: Սմբատ Տէր-Կիւրեղեան; October 19, 1913 – June 9, 1999) was a 20th-century Iranian–Armenian watercolor artist.
The experience had a tremendous influence on Sumbat, who opened his first studio on Charbagh Avenue at the age of seventeen.
He also produced more popular handicraft items, such as painted vases and lampshades decorated with caravan scenes, and made designs of carpets.
By the time he graduated from college, Sumbat had greatly improved his skills as a watercolorist with light and easy brushwork, pure and translucent colors.
Stanley Foster, an English consulting engineer for the AIOC and an amateur artist,[3] had a profound influence on Sumbat's career.
Sumbat was able to observe the works of great impressionists such as Monet, Degas and Pissarro, postimpressionists such as Cézanne, Toulouse-Lautrec and Van Gogh, and renowned British watercolorist J. M. W. Turner, who remained his favorites all his life.
Upon seeing Sumbat's watercolors, British watercolorist Sir W. Russell Flint declared him "brother in brush.
With a few brush strokes, the random mix of gouache colors and printed letters came alive, suggesting a crowd in a traditional Iranian bazaar.
In 1965, Sumbat was invited by ARAMCO to Saudi Arabia to exhibit his paintings and teach art in Ras Tanura and Dhahran.