Gorgeous ink drawing by well-listed Armenian artist, based in France, Richard Jeranian (b. 1921). Well known for his nude drawings of women, this is a stunning example of Jeranian's work. The drawing features a large portrait of a seated woman, holding her knee up while hiding her face done using mostly red, blue and black ink and Jeranian's characteristic cross-hatching technique. Simply beautiful!Dimensions: drawing approx. 25 x 18 3/4 (visible window); frame 31 x 25 inches.The drawing is framed, under glass. For US buyers who wish to save on shipping costs, I can send the drawing without the frame. International buyers, the drawing ships unframed only.JERANIAN It is from the 1930s, then that Armenia belongs to the Transcaucasian Soviet Socialist Federal Republic that Richard Jeranian knows exile in France.Interested by pictorial art and music, he begins his studies in Marseille where the landscapes of Provence will inspire him, then he pursued them at the Académie Julian and the Grande Chaumière in Paris, in 1944 he was called to serve in the air force and was sent to Algiers and Fez where he remained until 1941. From 1950 being very close with the artists of the Armenian diaspora, he travels and exhibits in Lebanon, Soviet Russia and Iran and also visits his homeland in connection with the efforts to support Armenia of the Calouste-Gulbenk Foundation During the earthquake of 1998, he will participate with other artists in donations for the creation of a hospital for children victims of the disaster The style of his works evolves, passing through periods of figurative, surrealist, cubist or abstract covering the themes of music, women and Armenia through figures, landscapes, genre scenes or still lifes treated with oil or ink. works at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow. National Gallery of Armenia4,5. Silver Medal of the City of Paris, 1955 6. Order of Arts and Letters, 1959. Martiros Sarian National Painting Prize, 1987. Khorenatsi Cultural Prize of the Republic of Armenia, 2011.