Markos Grigoryan passed away

01/09/2007

American Armenian painter and collector Markos Grigoryan, aged 90, who was attacked by criminals 20 days ago, died at hospital yesterday. He has presented a number of worthy pieces of arts to different museums in Armenia and this time he brought a unique collection for the Museum of Middle East. To note, at the beginning of August Markos Grigoryan was attacked by two unknown people, who stole the money, bank cards and the airline ticket to the U.S. he had with him.