YEREVAN. - In 2016 Armenia’s Ministry of Culture will support the shooting of a documentary on the Armenian painter Arshile Gorky, Armenia’s Minister of Culture Hasmik Poghosyan said today at the parliamentary hearings on the State Budget Draft for 2016.

No profound works related to the painter have so far been published in Armenia. Books about Gorky have already been published abroad, while Armenia’s activity with regard to him was of a more popular than investigative nature, she said.

In 2015 the Ministry held talks with the New York Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and other museums, where the works of the painter are displayed.

“The material which we have collected requires us to throw light on the master of painting, as well as his ties with his roots,” the Minister said.