Sarkis Zabunyan

French | 1938

Sarkis Zabunyan is a French Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1938. Their work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Istanbul Modern. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden have featured Sarkis Zabunyan's work in the past.Sarkis Zabunyan's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 69 USD to 46,625 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2011 the record price for this artist at auction is 46,625 USD for KRIEGSSCHATZ LEIDSCHATZ, sold at Artcurial in 2016. Sarkis Zabunyan has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for ArtDaily in March 2025.

Artist's alternative names: Sarkis

Featured for Sale

La drama of the tempest , 1974 ,1974

By Sarkis Zabunyan

Finarte Roma

par BERNARDAUD, modèle KINTSUGI - Lot

By Sarkis Zabunyan

Compiegne Dominique Loizillon [Actéon]

At Auction

Notable Lots

Chorus ,1962

By Sarkis Zabunyan

par BERNARDAUD, mod猫le KINTSUGI - Lot - Sarkis Zabunyan

par BERNARDAUD, modèle KINTSUGI - Lot

By Sarkis Zabunyan

LA MAIN DE SARKIS BR脹LE EN AQUARELLE (EAU FROIDE) - Sarkis Zabunyan

LA MAIN DE SARKIS BRÛLE EN AQUARELLE (EAU FROIDE) ,1999

By Sarkis Zabunyan

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Upcoming Lots

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La drama of the tempest , 1974 - Sarkis Zabunyan

La drama of the tempest , 1974 ,1974

By Sarkis Zabunyan

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Recent Auction Results

Our Louvre ,2013

By Sarkis Zabunyan

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Egyptian Violet Cup and jam jar

By Sarkis Zabunyan

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Sarkis dit La main ,1993

By Sarkis Zabunyan

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Current Exhibitions

Floating Islands

Istanbul Modern

Istanbul | Turkey

May 04,2023 - Jul 13,2025

Past Exhibitions

Sarkis: Infini croisement des détails avec sa mesure en lumière

Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris (Faubourg Saint-Honoré)

8e | Paris | France

Mar 22,2025 - May 03,2025

Gillet et compagnie

Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris (Cloître Saint-Merri)

4e | Paris | France

Feb 08,2025 - Apr 26,2025

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Articles

ArtDaily 12/03/2025

Galerie Nathalie Obadia is presenting Gillet et Compagnie, a group exhibition featuring the oeuvres of Roger-Edgar Gillet alongside those of other major artists of the contemporary scene.

FAD Magazine 30/01/2025

Istanbul-based gallery Dirimart has announced the opening of its new gallery space at the heart of London鈥檚 Mayfair.

ARTFORUM 01/03/2024

Over four decades, the pioneering Armenian Turkish artist Sarkis, who moved to Paris in 1964 after he graduated from what is now Istanbul鈥檚 Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University.

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Coverage

鈥� ..It was a shock for this young lad from Istanbul who had never seen a painting... 鈥�
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Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brussels

鈥� ..The fleetingness of the materials (watercolor, water, wax, sound) used in the filmed artistic activities and the fleetingness of the medium itself - these seem to be momentarily calmed in this way, and... 鈥�
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Tanas

鈥� ..They make manifest, by way of a variety of media, the traces of time's passing, the remains of what is gone and done, and sensory experiences... 鈥�
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ARTER

鈥� ..Employing all the instruments that keep a city vibrant 鈥揻rom homeless people encountered in the streets to places whose construction seems never to end, from the protagonists of ordinary tales to perceived... 鈥�
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Istanbul Modern

鈥� ..鈥淪ite鈥� is a lavish audio-visual feast whose menu begins with the gouache studies on paper that the artist did in the early 1960s and continues with his pitch-dark installations of the 1970s, with his institutionally... 鈥�
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Istanbul Modern