Daria Gamsaragan
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Daria Gamsaragan | |
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Դարուհի Կամսարական | |
 Self-portrait of Daria Gamsaragan, plaster | |
| Born | (1907-04-24)24 April 1907 Alexandria, Egypt |
| Died | 1 March 1986(1986-03-01) (aged 78) Paris, France |
| Other names | Anne Sarag, Anna Sarag, Daria Kamsarakan, Taria Gamsaragan, Daruhi Gamsaragan |
| Citizenship | Egypt (1907–), France (1967–) |
| Education | Académie de la Grande Chaumière |
| Occupations | Visual artist, writer |
| Known for | Sculptor, medallist, jewelry designer |
| Spouse | Imre Gyomai (m. 1926–1939; separated) |
| Partner | Georges E. Vallois (1939–1945) |
| Relatives | Tigran Kamsarakan (uncle) |
Daria Gamsaragan (1907–1986; Armenian: Դարուհի Կամսարական) was an Egyptian-born Armenian visual artist and writer, known for her work as a sculptor of miniature objects and medalist. She worked for jewelers and fashion houses in the 1970s. Gamsaragan used the pseudonym of Anne Sarag for her writings.[1][2]
Early life, family, and education
Daria Gamsaragan was born on 24 April 1907, in Alexandria, Egypt,[1][3] to wealthy parents of Armenian heritage from Constantinople.[4][5] Her father Armenak Bey Gamsaragan and the paternal side of the family had been in the tobacco business for multiple generations.[4] Her uncle was writer Tigran Kamsarakan (1866–1941).[6] She grew up speaking Arabic, Armenian, French, and Turkish. Gamsaragan graduated from the private high school Lycée Français d'Alexandrie in 1924.[4]
She attended art class at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris, and studied under Antoine Bourdelle, Joseph Csaky, and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant.[1][7][8]
Career
In 1966, Gamsaragan created a monument for the burial of Armenian intellectuals at the Cimetière parisien de Bagneux, a cemetery in Bagneux.[4] From 1967 to 1982, she worked for the Monnaie de Paris (the mint) and created around fifteen medals to commemorate noted figures.[4]
In the early 1970s, Gamsaragan worked on two projects related to jewelry. She designed twelve signs of the Zodiac for the luxury goods company Cartier; and designed crosses as jewelry for the fashion house Chanel.[4]
The weekly French-Armenian newspaper "Armenia" featured Gamsaragan's sculpture piece "Crucified" on the cover of their April 1977 issue, in commemoration of the Armenian genocide (1915–1917).[4] In 1984, a retrospective of her work was exhibited at the Galerie Sculptures, rue Visconti in Paris.
Gamsaragan died on 1 March 1986, in her home in Paris.[3] Her artwork can be found in museum collections, include at the Alexandria Museum of Fine Arts; the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris; the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen; and the Museum of Modern Egyptian Art.[1]
Personal life
Gamsaragan married Hungarian journalist Imre Gyomai in 1926 in Alexandria, and they settled down to live together in Paris for the next ten years.[2]
By 1939, she and her husband Gyomai separated, and she started dating Georges E. Vallois, a newspaper editor and journalist with Libération newspaper.[2][9] After the war ended in 1945, Gamsaragan and Vallois separated.[4]
In 1967, she became a French national.[4]
Publications
- Sarag, Anne (1957). Voyage Avec Une Ombre [Journey with a Shadow] (in French). Calmann-Lévy, réédition numérique FeniXX. ISBN 9782706200908.
{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help) - Sarag, Anne (1965). L'Anneau de Feu: Roman [Ring of Fire] (in French). Paris: Les Éditeurs Français Réunis. ISBN 9782402550703.
References
- ^ abcd"Gamsaragan, Daria". Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford University Press. 31 October 2011. doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00070369. Retrieved 2025-01-06.
- ^ abcRivière, Anne (2017). Dictionnaire des Sculptrices en France (in French). Éditions Mare & Martin. p. 221. ISBN 979-10-92054-57-6.
- ^ abSaur, K. G. (2006). "Gamsaragan Daria (Daruhi, Kamsarakan, Taria) Armenaki (1907–1986)". Saur Allgemeines Kunstlerlexikon, Die Bildenden Kunstler aller Zeiten und Volker, Bd.48 (in German). Munchen–Leipzig. pp. 297–298.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ abcdefghiReboul, Elisa (2021). "Entre la France et l'Égypte: Daria Gamsaragan (1902–1986), sculptrice aux frontières de l'imaginaire"(PDF). Art et histoire de l'art (in French): 430. Archived from the original(PDF) on January 6, 2025 – via Dumas.
- ^"Anne Sarag". Dictionnaire Créatrices. Retrieved 2025-01-07.
- ^Մարգարյան, Հակոբ (1964). Տիգրան Կամսարական: կյանքը եվ ստեղծագործությունը [Tigran Kamsarakan: Life and Work] (in Armenian). Հայկական ՍՍՌ ԳԱ Հրատարակչություն – via Google Books.
- ^Akoun, J. P. A. (2005). "Gamsaragan, Daria (Mme) – 1907–1986 (ET)". Akoun: Répertoire Biographique d'Artistes de Tous Pays des XIXe et XXe siècles. CV-XIX-XX (in French). Cote de l'amateur. p. 585. ISBN 978-2-85917-429-3.
- ^"Palm Beach Notes... Sculptor's Work Shows Warmth, Vitality". The Palm Beach Post. 1963-04-28. p. 22. Retrieved 2025-01-06 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^"Le Quotidien " Libération " Cesse De Paraître". Le Monde (in French). November 28, 1964. Retrieved 2025-01-06.
- 1907 births
- 1986 deaths
- 20th-century Armenian sculptors
- 20th-century Egyptian sculptors
- 20th-century French women sculptors
- 20th-century French sculptors
- 20th-century medallists
- Artists from Alexandria
- Artists from Paris
- Armenian novelists
- Armenian women sculptors
- Egyptian emigrants to France
- Egyptian novelists
- Egyptian people of Armenian descent
- Egyptian women sculptors
- French medallists
- French novelists
- French people of Armenian descent
- Jewellery designers
- Alumni of the Académie de la Grande Chaumière