Dikran Kelekian

John Graham

1943 · Oil on canvas · Modern and Contemporary Art

This portrait of the seventy-five-year-old art dealer is one of nineteen works shown in the exhibition, "Kelekian: As the Artist Sees Him," at the Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York, in 1944. Among the other artists invited into his gallery for special sittings were the painters Milton Avery, André Derain, Walt Kuhn, and André Masson and the sculptors Chaim Gross and Jacques Lipchitz. Many of their compositions also included antiquities from the gallery.

Artist

John Graham

Date

1943

Medium

Oil on canvas

Department

Modern and Contemporary Art

Credit line

Gift of Nanette B. Kelekian, 2002