Suren Pipoyan, ‘Komitas’, 1976

The work ‘Komitas’ (1976) by the painter Suren Pipoyan is in the collection of the National Gallery of Armenia.

The painting shows Komitas in a long dark garment, barefoot, with light around his head and white sheets of paper in his hands. He is walking down a road winding through the hills, and behind him, on top of a hill, stands a church. In the lower right corner are the artist’s signature and the number ‘76’.

Komitas (born Soghomon Gevorgi Soghomonyan) was an Armenian composer, musicologist, folklorist, singer, choral conductor and a clergyman of the Armenian Church.