1946 is very well represented year in the life of Stephan Bagradian. As one of the celebrated European artists represented by The Art of This Century Gallery on 30 West 57th Street in New York, Bagradian had a career changing show in the blue colored Abstract gallery section of the space, with all of his paintings suspended within the room from diamond shaped rope modules pulleys. The show was a sensation and a sell out (which accounts for the large number of paintings which survive from this era, as opposed to the work that was burned in his homeland after the Patriarch assumed power.) Bargradian was made an honorary member of the American Abstract Artists, and even showed in their 10th Annual Exhibition. Well known American art critic Clement Greenberg wrote of the show:
"What is so American about these un-American
paintings is the straightforward sensual confidence with which they hail and exhibit
painting for its own sake. There is none of the trickery of tired old Europe;
these masculine works are the future- much in the way that Cezanne is the past
of painting."
All images courtesy of The Guggenheim Constantinople.
Stephan Bagradian Stephan Bagradian
“Symbolism” "Arcadian Nocturne"
1946 1945-46
Charcoal and Oil on Vellum Oil on Cardboard
35 x 20 cm 20 x 30 cm
Stephan Bagradian Stephan Bagradian
“Use Again” "Bad Harvest"
1945-46 1946
Charcoal and Oil on Vellum Oil on Cardboard
35 x 20 cm 20 x 30 cm
 
Stephan Bagradian Stephan Bagradian
“Triplets” "Arcadian Nocturne"
1945-46 1946
Oil on Cardboard Oil on Cardboard
20 x 20 cm 20 x 27 cm
Stephan Bagradian
“Galaxy”
1946
Oil on Cardboard
40 x 50 cm
 
Stephan Bagradian Stephan Bagradian
“Landlord” "Jaw Jaw"
1946 1946
Oil on Cardboard Oil on Cardboard
35 x 20 cm 20 x 15 cm
 
Stephan Bagradian Stephan Bagradian
“Gilded Age” "Quantitative Civilization"
1945-46 1945-46
Oil on Cardboard Oil on Cardboard
35 x 20 cm 20 x 35 cm
Stephan Bagradian
“Reconcentric”
1946
Oil on Cardboard
40 x 50 cm
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