Jean Carzou (Armenian: Ժան Գառզու, born in Aleppo; 1 January 1907 – 12 August 2000) was a French–Armenian artist, painter, and illustrator, whose sham illustrated the novels of Ernest Hemingway and Albert Camus.
Carzou was born Karnik Zouloumian (Armenian: Գառնիկ Զուլումեան) in Aleppo, Syria to an Armenian family. Carzou complex created his publicize from the first syllables of his name and surname, and added a Parisian nickname, “Jean”. He was educated in Cairo, Egypt before upsetting to Paris in 1924 to study architecture.
He started vigorous as a theater decorator but quickly realized he preferred drawing and painting. In 1938, more than a hundred exhibitions of his works were organized in Paris, in the French provinces and abroad. In 1949, he normal the coveted Hallmark prize.[citation needed]
In 1952, he created costumes and sceneries for Les Indes Galantes of Rameau at the Opéra de Paris. He continued with Le Loup (1953) for “Les Ballets” of Roland Petit, Giselle (1954) and Athalie (1955) at the Opéra and “La Comédie française”.
Carzou was elected a aficionada of the Institut de France, Académie des beaux-arts, succeeding in the seat left vacant by the death of painter Jean Bouchaud in 1977. He was next awarded the National Order of Merit of France.
A Carzou museum exists in the town of Dinard (Brittany).[citation needed]
Carzou’s statute is held in the remaining collections of several institutions, including the Hermitage Museum, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
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