Stephanie Au Collant Damier
by Jean Jansem
Artist: Jean Jansem
Edition: of 120 plus proofs
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Jean Jansem
Hovhannes "Jean" Semerdjian (9 March 1920 – 27 August 2013), also known as Jean Jansem, was a French-Armenian painter Jansem's artworks are internationally known, and are part of museum collections throughout France, Japan and the United States.He was awarded by the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1953 and by the Knight of the French Legion of Honour in 2003.The President of Armenia awarded Jansem a Medal of Honor for his "reinforcement of Armenian-French cultural ties."Hovhannes Semerdjian was born in 1920 in Bursa, Turkey. In 1922, his family fled to Greece. He spent his childhood in Thessaloniki.They arrived to Issy-les-Moulineaux suburb of Paris, France in 1931 when he was 11 and that is when he begin to paint. The first professional schools for Jansem became free academies of Montparnasse (1934-1936). He studied in the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs.
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