MONUMENTS
WATER SELLER BOY - COLD WATER OF YEREVAN
1970
State index:
1.6.208
Sculptor: Hovhannes Bejanyan
Architect: Spartak Kntegtsyan
The sculpture is
located in the English Garden, between the Pepo statue and the Sundukyan
National Academic Theater, on the edge of the alley. It was previously
installed at the entrance to the English Park (former Communards, Theater Garden), by the Stepan
Shahumyan Square.
It is dedicated to the
boys who sold water on Yerevan Boulevard and in the English Park in the
1910s-1930s. In the first decades of the 20th century, Yerevan was not yet
abundant in water, and itinerant water sellers
helped to fill the water shortage, thus ensuring their livelihood.
In the center of the small basin is a bronze statue of a boy selling water on a
cylindrical basalt pedestal, with a pitcher in his right hand and a clay cup in
his left. The plastically sculpted half-naked, thin and flexible body, and the
natural posture give the sculpture liveliness and dynamics. The total height is
2.2 m.
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