| Since
1970, Pedros Malayan was a member of the Soviet
Artist Association's "Commission on Watercolor"
(Chudsovet), in which he represented Armenia.
He also curated the Plain-Airs of Water-color
in Siktivkar, Russia in 1978 and in Yerevan, Armenia
in 1987. Throughout the years Pedros Malayan's
paintings were exhibited, along with the works
of fellow Armenian artists, in the former Czechoslovakia,
Austria, Cuba, Canada, Poland, Belgium, Syria,
Egypt, Bulgaria, the United States and the Annual
Exhibition of Armenian Artists in Yerevan, Armenia.
He presented a number of personal exhibits in
Poland, Bulgaria, Russia, Canada and Armenia,
and his paintings today can be found in a variety
of private collections and various museums across
Europe.
In 1983
he received the title of "Honored Artist
of the Armenian Republic", and in 1990 was
awarded a Professorship as the Chair of Drawing
at the Yerevan
Art Institute of Armenia.
In the
Spring of 1993 and after a long illness, he and
his family were forced to leave Armenia - where
he was unable to receive proper medical treatment
- and move to Tel Aviv, Israel. Despite his illness,
he never abandoned his craft and continued working
until his last moments.
† Pedros Malayan
died of a stroke on the 17th of March, 1997, and
is buried in Kibuttz Einat cemetery, near Rosh-Ha-Ayin,
Israel. |
