Modern Totem was Exhibited at:

Cheudevres of Cubiste, Surrealiste and Abstractioniste at the Leonce Rosenberg Gallerie", Paris, 1934

Armenian sculptor and painter. Kotchar, studied under the Armenian painter Egish Tatevosyan (1870-1936) at the Tiflis Art School of the Caucasian Society for the Encouragement of the Arts (1914-18) and under Pyotr Konchalovsky at Svomas (the Free Art Studios) in Moscow (1918-19). During his early period his painting was heavily influenced by French modernism, especially Impressionism (e.g. De Profundis, 1919; Erevan, N.A.G. Armenia). From 1923 to 1936 he lived in Paris, where he used a wide range of media and styles, including Symbolism.

Some exhibition records for Kotchar:

1923

Personal Exhibition, Paris, 23 September

1924

"Salon des Independants", Paris, 19 February - 13 March

"Salon d'Automne", Paris

1925

"L'ART d'Aujourd'hui", Paris

1926

"Salon d'Automne", Paris

Personal exhibitions, Galerie "Au Sacre du Printemps", Paris, 28 Octobre - 13 Novembre

1928

"Salon des Independants", Paris

Personal Exhibition at the Galerie Van Leer, Paris, 17-30 November

1930

Exhibition "Confrontation" at the Gallerie "Fenktre ouverte", Paris

1932

Participation in exhibition "Cheudevres of cubiste, surrealiste and abstractioniste at the Leonce Rosenberg Gallerie", Paris

1934

Personal Exhibition "Kotchar. Painting. Sculpture. Graphics." at the Gallerie "Vignon", Paris

1966

Exhibition "Kotchar et la peinture dans l'espace" at the Galerie Percier, Paris

1989

Retrospective exhibition at the Galerie Basmadjian, Paris, 18 May - 9 September