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A very striking lithograph by Armenian/French artist Jean Jansem (1920 - 1990). The piece, which is entitled "Bullfighter," was printed around 1965 and is signed by the artist in pencil, lower right.

Jean Jansem was born in 1920 in Seuleuze (Asia Minor). He spent his childhood in Salonika, Greece, and arrived in France at the age of 11 where he began painting. He took evening courses in the Montparnasse quarter in Paris. Jansem graduated 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. During numerous trips to Greece, Spain, Italy and the French province, he prepared the important themes of his exhibitions. Such themes include the fishermen and the children of Greece, the children, bullfighting and the houses of Spain, the landscapes, processions, markets, city of Venice the Laguna, the masquerade parades, and the carnivals of Italy and the village marketplaces and landscapes of France. 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.