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Anatoly Papanyan, an Armenia painter and printmaker who has emigrated and lives in Israel since 1993.

Anatoly was born in 1941 in Armenia. He graduated from the State Institute of Arts in Yerevan, Armenia in 1967.

Anatoly participated in statewide exhibitions of young artists in Armenia between 1968 and 1976. His artworks were displayed in Ceylon, Austria, Luxemburg, USA, Canada, and Finland as part of the "Armenian Art Abroad" exhibitions in 1980–1985.

In early 1990s some of his artworks were acquired by the Armenian State Picture Gallery, The Modern Art Museum in Yerevan, Armenia, the Pushkin's Museum of the Western Art in Moscow, Russia. Later in 2007 Armenian State Picture Gallery acquired nine etching prints. A number of artworks are currently in private collections in Russia, Armenia, USA, Germany, Holland, France, Estonia, Ukraine and Israel.

In 1981–1991 Anatoly was teaching in the Experimental Centre of Aesthetic Education and the Art Institute in Yerevan, Armenia.

After moving to Israel in 1993, Anatoly has participated in a number of exhibitions, including Artfocus festival in Binyaney-HaUma in Jerusalem, Israel (1994), the exhibitions of "The six" artists and "The seven" artists in the Artist's Union Hall, Tel-Aviv, Israel (1994–1995), "The Fifth Corner" group exhibition, Netanya, Israel (2000), "Personal Preferences" exhibition, the Zeitlin Museum of Russian Art, Ramat-Gan, Israel (2000), "Personal Preferences" exhibition The New Manege, Moscow, Russia (2001) and The Manege and the Artists Union Exhibitions Centre, Sankt-Petersburg, Russia (2002).

Anatoly Papanyan organized a number of personal exhibitions, including the following:  in  Netanya, Israel (1994), in Berlin, Germany (1995), in Bad-Honnef, Germany (produced by "Little Van Gogh" ArtService in 2000–2002).

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