'Early Childhood,' by Arman Hambardzumyan, Bronze Sculpture

This 35.43" x 9.84" bronze sculpture by Armenian artist, Arman Hambardzumyan, features a faceless figural form with long legs and a short torso. The torso opens up and holds a small figure with a face, the torso extends upward with outturn breasts. Two hands rests on the thighs of the figure. The sculpture is table top size attached to a wooden base.

"The theme of motherhood occupies a special role in my art. Once, in history class at school, I heard about the conspiratorial murder of Armenian King Pap. That story seemed familiar to me, but I did not know how. At home my mother told me that she was pregnant with me when she read the book about the King Pap. From this I got the idea that in the mother’s womb the child already feels the outer life. " -- Arman Hambrdzumyan

Arman is an Armenian artist represented in several major collections around the world including the Terra Garden in Kikinda (Serbia), Contemporary Hall of the National Museum of Fine Arts (Chisinau, Republic of Moldova), Boyajyan Center for the Arts (Prague, Czech Republic), and at private collections in Europe, Asia and in the USA.

Provenance - 2015 Myths, Folk Art Museum after Hovhannes Sharambeyan. Yerevan, Armenia. Exhibit coordinator: Armine Beglaryan. Bibliography - “Arman Hambardzumyan: Myths”, Catalog of Exhibition, 2015, “Tigran Mets” publication house, Yerevan.