The 1974 opening
Ekhnaton Gallery, Cairo — photographs from the family archive.
32 paintings. Inaugurated 8 July by Yousef el-Sebai, Minister of Culture. 6 Kasr el-Nil Street, Cairo.
35 paintings, including landscapes and portraits. Two-day exhibition inaugurated 12 April.
“What is so fascinating about the final style of the youthful painter is her ability to communicate readily her subconscious message through vision to the mind, while evading the hallucinations that are the trademark in today's abstractions.”
Visitor's note, Ekhnaton Gallery, Cairo, 14 July 1974
“Your conception of mass, the harmony and balance of volumes, your power of synthesis were for me subjects of admiration. I was particularly struck by your sense of composition and the art with which you make your colours sing.”
Georges Lambert, architect (translated from the French)
“Having admired your really good works, I wish you the best in your artistic life. May all your exhibitions be as successful as this, and even more.”
Visitor's note, Ekhnaton Gallery, Cairo, 9 July 1974
Fenicia Hotel, Beirut. 1–7 June — her first public exhibition.
With five other Armeno-Egyptian artists, at the gallery housed within Kalousdian School.
Recurring group exhibitions of Armeno-Egyptian artists' work: 1974, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1989, 1990.
1974, 1975, 1978, 1986, 1987.
1975, 1980, 1982.
A dedicated showcase of women artists working in Egypt.
Group exhibitions in 1980, 1981, 1990.
1992, 2008, 2009 — the final participation being the November 2009 exhibition at el-Hanager Art Center marking painter Puzant Godjamanian's birth centenary, in which four of her works were shown.
At the Armenian Cultural Centre, Alexandria
“Many visitors, some of them from Cairo, were able to admire a variety of landscapes and, above all, portraits of great interest.”
“This young Armenian painter studied for some ten years under Achod Zorian, a well-known artist in Cairo, and earned her painting diploma at the ABC Art School in Paris, before perfecting her art in the USSR (Moscow, Leningrad and Yerevan).”
“In the portraits of young Egyptian and Armenian women, there is a whole range of touching expressions in faces of different types. The portrait of Mme Gihane el-Sadate, among others, is remarkable for its composition and its style. And in the series of landscapes, Mount Ararat rises in all its majesty.”
“Looking at these works, one cannot help recalling the phrase she could make her own: For most artists, painting is a constant quest for the inner vision.”
Signed “Maggie”. Translated from the French; the original is shown at left.Admitted to membership in 1980, placing her among Egypt's recognized professional visual artists. She is classed as part of the fourth generation of Armeno-Egyptian painters — the direct disciples of Ashod Zorian — a generation of largely female artists born in the late 1920s and 1930s who each developed an individual style within the forms he taught.
Full documentation, including press clippings, exhibition photographs and exhibition catalogues, is available to serious inquiries.