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The exhibition of the artworks by Georgian artist, graphic designer and sculptor of Armenian origin Alexander Bazhbeuk-Melikyan will be opened in the Dimitri Shevardnadze National Gallery in Tbilisi on January 10. As newsgeorgia.ge reports, the exhibition is dedicated to the 125th birthday anniversary and to the 50th years since the artist passed away.

“Alexander Bazhbeuk-Melikov was ethnic Armenian but he spent his entire life in Georgia and formed a basis for the development of the new and modern Georgian painting. Alexander Bazhbeuk-Melikov's creative heritage, his specific artistic expression and aesthetic value remains as a kind of a standard in Georgian art,” the Gallery says in a released statement announcing the exhibition.

The event is implemented with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Monument Protection of Georgia, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Armenia, Georgian National Museum and Diocese of Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Holy Church in Georgia.

The exhibition will last until February 25, 2017.

According to the artist’s family estimates, Bazhbeuk-Melikyan painted over two thousand canvases, but ruthlessly pruned them down to about a hundred. Open sources claim, that given his perfectionism, every time he created a new work, he would go over his old paintings and destroy any that did not meet his uncompromising standard.