Jean Jansem Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
French, 1920-2013
Jean Jansen is a figure, landscape, marine and genre painter of European subjects: fishermen and children of Greece, bullfighting in Spain, Italian landscapes and markets, scenes of Venice and French France village marketplaces and landscapes. He was born in 1920 in Seuleuze, Asia Minor (Armenia) and spent his childhood in Salonika, Greece. He arrived in France at the age of 11 where he started painting.
He took evening courses in the Montparnasse Quarter in Paris, and graduated from the School of Arts Dératifs in 1938. He often visited the atelier of "La Grande Chaumière", and exhibited his first oil painting at the "Salon des Indépendants" in 1939.
Since 1951, 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.(Biography provided by Lincoln Glenn)
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Artist: Jean Jansem
Large Drawing of Boy by French Armenian Modernist Jean Jansem Ecole De Paris Art
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Jean Jansem (Hovhannes Semerdjian) 1920-2013
Young Boy (sad young man)
Hand signed lower left corner
Provenance: Marble Arch Gallery NYC
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1960s Modern Jean Jansem Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Jansem drawing, Grandma drawing, contemporary artist, Jansem grandma portrait.
By Jean Jansem
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La Veille Dame, ink on paper by Jean Jansem (1920-2013). Stephanie's gallery's certificate of authentic available. Signed Jansem lower right.
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Japanese culture drawing, Kimono, Japanese dress, traditional clothing.
By Jean Jansem
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Title is Fillette en Kimono, 1954 .Drawing by Jean Jansem, 1954. Included the certificate of authentic by Stephanie's gallery.
Fillette en Kimono" is a captivating black and white drawing that beautifully captures the essence of Japanese culture and traditional clothing...
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