Figurine “Fisherman Pepo”

Technique: Faience, painting.
Size: Height 26 cm.

Figurine “Fisherman Pepo”, USSR, 1970s, Yerevan Porcelain Factory, author Khachatur Miridzhanyan, faience, polychrome overglaze painting. Height 26 cm. Excellent condition, minor crazing. Khachatur Miridzhanyan Born in 1930 in the city of Burgas, Bulgaria, sculptor. In 1932, together with his parents, he was repatriated to Armenia and settled in Yerevan. In 1953 he graduated from the P. Terlemezyan Art School in Yerevan, and in 1960 from the Art and Theatre Institute in Yerevan. He has taken part in exhibitions since 1953. Author of a number of figurines produced at EFZ, such as “Fisherman Pepo”, “Sayat-Nova”, “Girl with a Jug (as conceived by the author – a matsoni saleswoman)”, “Violinist (prototype – the violinist Zoya Petrosyan)”, “Vagram Papazyan as Othello”, “Gikor”, etc. A pupil of Tereza Mirzoyan (author of the figurine “Ballerina”, Yerevan). Sculptor, painter, graphic artist, poet. Fisherman Pepo is the hero of the play of the same name, which tells of the confrontation between the honest poor fisherman Pepo and the cunning merchant Zimzimov. Pepo tries through the court to recover the money that Pepo's father once lent to Zimzimov. But the judge, who is in collusion with Zimzimov, destroys the genuine receipt and replaces it with a forged one. This makes it possible to accuse Pepo of forgery...