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Jean Jansem
Les Quais a Venise

1966

$1,500
£1,159.01
€1,339.93
CA$2,119.61
A$2,377.28
CHF 1,244.95
MX$28,886.29
NOK 15,808.73
SEK 14,987.79
DKK 10,001.84

About the Item

Artist: Jean Jansem (French/Armenian, 1920-2013) Title: Les Quais a Venise Year: 1966 Medium: Color lithograph Edition: Numbered 127/160 in pencil Paper: Arches paper Image size: 18.5 x 24 inches Signature: Hand signed in pencil by the artist Condition: Very good Frame Framed in a custom light wood and gold frame, with gold color bevel and fabric matting About the artist: Hovhannes "Jean" Semerdjian (Armenian: 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. A Foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia (2002). 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. His teachers were Brianshon, Legjon and Udon. Jansem also studied at the Sabatie studio for a year. Early paintings by Jansem were mainly to national issues. He had individual exhibitions in Paris, New York, Chicago, London, Tokyo, Rome, Brussels, Lausanne, Beirut etc. Hovhannes Semerdjian was elected the President of the Young Artists' Saloon in 1956. He won the Comparison prize in Mexico in 1958. In Japan, two museums were built to honor Jansem′s work, located in Tokyo Ginza and Nagano Prefecture Azumino. In 1973 he visited Armenia for the first time. In 2001, 34 of his paintings were given to the Armenian Genocide Museum. Jansem’s primary sources of inspiration were Goya and Brueghel. His mother and his children were the main heroes in his earlier works. Jansem was characterized as a miserablist, an artist of unfortunate people.[5] On 10 March 2010, the day after Jansem's 90th birthday, during a visit to France, the President of Armenia awarded Jansem a medal of honour saying the following, "Our nation is proud of you and values highly your art. While living outside Armenia, you have made our country more recognizable, extending our nation's good name all over the world." Jansem died on 27 August 2013, aged 93, outside Paris. Awards Jansem has held exhibitions of his work in France (Paris, Amiens, Nantes, Avignon, Marseille, Nancy, Toulouse, Cannes, Mulhouse, Bayonville, Clermont-Ferrand...) and in other countries (Rome, Palermo, Lausanne, New-York, Chicago, Palm-Beach, London, Brussels, Montréal, Tokyo, Osaka, Beirut, Sao Paolo, Johannesburg, Germany, Art Expo New York and Los Angeles. EXHIBITIONS Galerie Doucet, Paris.1951 Galerie Hervé, Paris.1954, 1956, 1959, 1963 Wally Findlay Galleries, New York, Chicago, Palm Beach. 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1970, 1973 Galerie David et Garnier, Paris. 1965 Galerihe Lefevre Gallery, Londres 1966, 1968, 1972 Galerihe Lefevre Gallery, Londres Isy Brachot, Bruxelles, "Rétrospective". 1967 Galerie Moyon-Avenard, Nantes.1968, 1974, 1975, 1978, 1985, Galerie Maurice Garnier, Paris 1969, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1977 Galerie Mitsukoshi, Tokyo. Rétrospective". 1974 Galerie Matignon, Paris. 1978, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1993 The Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg.1979, 1983 Châteauneuf-du-Pape."Rétrospective". 1979 Château de Val."Rétrospective". 1986 Château de Sedières."Rétrospective". 1986 Prntemps Ginza, Tokyo."Rétrospective des lithographies". 1993 Several exhibitions in Japan organized by Mainichi Communications Inc in 1996 1996 Exhibitions in Japanese museums Azumino Jansem Museum Navio Museum in Osaka Daimaru Museum in Tokyo 1997 Exhibition "Atelier" - Matignon Gallery in Paris Exhibition "Nature morte" - Flora Jansem Gallery in Paris 1998 Saga Paris - drawings, etchings, lithographs Osaka - Gallery Hayakawa - drawing Tokyo - Printemps Ginza - painting, drawing Museum Collections: France: Modern Art Museum, Paris; Poitiers Museum; Fontainebleau Museum; Ennery Museum Japan: Jansem Museum, Tokyo; Azumino Jansem Museum, Nagano-Ken. Russia: Modern Art Museum, Moscow Armenia: National Museum ; Genocide Memorial of Armenia, Yerevan
  • Creator:
    Jean Jansem (1920 - 2013, French)
  • Creation Year:
    1966
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 31.25 in (79.38 cm)Width: 37 in (93.98 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
  • More Editions & Sizes:
    The image size is 18.5 x 24 inches, framed size is 31.25 x 37 inches.Price: $1,300
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  • Gallery Location:
    San Francisco, CA
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: 113651stDibs: LU66632217283

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