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Nerses Ounanian ( hy, Ներսէս Ունանեան) (1 August 1924 in
Samos
Samos (, also ; el, Σάμος ) is a Greece, Greek island in the eastern Aegean Sea, south of Chios, north of Patmos and the Dodecanese, and off the coast of western Turkey, from which it is separated by the -wide Mycale Strait. It is also a se ...
– 18 December 1957 in Montevideo) was a Uruguayan artist of Armenian descent.
[ The work of Nerses Ounanian (1920-57)](_blank)
He was a pupil of
Antonio Pena and
Edmundo Prati. His most representative work is a memorial to the Armenian Genocide in the
Bella Vista neighbourhood of Montevideo, where also a street bears his name.
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Nerses Ounanian on stamps
1924 births
1957 deaths
People from Samos
Greek people of Armenian descent
Uruguayan people of Armenian descent
Uruguayan sculptors
Male sculptors
20th-century sculptors
Uruguayan male artists
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