MONUMENTS
SCULPTURE “WATER-SELLING BOY” (“COLD WATER OF YEREVAN”)
1970
State index: 1.6.208
Sculptor: Hovhannes Bejanyan
Architect: Spartak Knteghtsyan
The sculpture is located between Movses Khorenatsi and Grigor Lusavorich streets. It was originally placed near the entrance of the English Park (formerly Kommunar, Theater Garden) from the St. Shahumyan Square side.
The sculpture is dedicated to the boys selling water
in Yerevan’s boulevard and English Park in the 1910s-1930s. In the first
decades of the 20th century, Yerevan was not as water-rich as it became later,
and itinerant water sellers filled the water shortage while also earning their
daily bread.
In the center of a small pool, on a cylindrical basalt
pedestal, is a bronze statue of a water-selling boy, with a jug in his right
hand and a clay cup in his left. The plastically crafted semi-naked, thin and
flexible body and natural posture give the sculpture liveliness and dynamism.
The total height is 2.2 m.
In 1993, unknown persons stole the sculpture. After
some time, it was found and reinstalled in its original place, where it
remained until 2019. In May 2019, before the grand opening of the garden
dedicated to Yerevan’s 2800th anniversary in the area between Alexander
Myasnikyan’s statue and Shahumyan Square, the renovated sculpture of the
water-selling boy was moved to the area between Pepo's statue and the Sundukyan
National Academic Theater in the English Garden and installed at the edge of
the promenade.
“Scientific Research Centre of Historical and Cultural Heritage” SNCO
Yerevan Municipality
