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Much of
Gerekmezyan's works are missing. Her remaining works are found in the Resim ve Heykel Müzesi (Museum of Painting and Sculpture) in Istanbul and in the Private Collection of the Eyüboğlu Family which includes her famous bust of Bedri Rahmi. Some of Mari Gerekmezyan's most famous works include:
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311:(formerly Fine Arts Academy, Istanbul), where she met Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu. Throughout the 1940s, Gerekmezyan assisted Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu in his artwork. The two would eventually fall in love. Their relationship is compared to the likes of
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Gerekmezyan was awarded the Ankara
Sculpture Exhibit Award for her Busts of Professor Neşet Omer and Professor Şekip Tunç in 1943. She earned the First Place Award at the Ankara State Fine Arts Exhibit for her Bust of poet
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When he first read the poem in public, Eyüboğlu cried. It is believed that Eyüboğlu continued to love
Gerekmezyan the rest of his life. The poem would become popular as it was incorporated into
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which had just ended, medicine was very expensive. Bedri Rahmi sold many of his paintings but was not able to save
Gerekmezyan. Gerekmezyan died in 1947 at the age of 35. She is buried in the
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Gerekmezyan was an art and Armenian language teacher at the
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sculptor. She was the lover of the Turkish poet and painter
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My grain of pomegranate, my grain of light, my only one;
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What more will you be to me, my odd one, queer one,
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I am a tree, my limbs, a porch hanging with grapes,
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