Richard Jeranian

Richard Jerenian
Born	1921
Nationality	Armenia
Education	Académie Julian
Known for	Painting
Awards	Khorenatsi medal (2011)

Richard Jeranian (Armenian: Ռիշար Ժերանյան) born on 17 July 1921 in Sebaste (now known as Sivas), is an Armenian painter, draftsman and lithographer active in France.

In the 1930s, when Armenia belonged to the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, Richard Jeranian went into exile in France. Interested in art and music, he began his studies in Marseille where the landscapes of Provence inspired him, he pursued his studies in Paris at the Académie Julian and at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. In 1944 he was called to serve in the air force and was sent to Algiers, then to Fez where he remained until 1946. After the war, being closely connected with artists from the Armenian diaspora, he traveled and exhibited in Lebanon, Soviet Russia and Iran, he also visited his native land in connection with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation efforts in support of Armenia . During the 1998 earthquake, he participated with other artists in donations for the creation of a children hospital after the disaster. The style of his works evolved, going through figurative, surrealist, cubist or abstract periods covering the themes of music, woman and Armenia through figures, landscapes, genre scenes or still lifes in oil and ink.

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