Shart Sketchbook

Collection

Identifier: MS.078

Staff Only

Scope and Content Note

One small sketchbook, 5 in. x 7 in., containing two pencil drawings, 19 pen-and-ink drawings, and one pen-and-ink drawing with ink wash. Three unfinished studies are on the verso of completed drawings. Subjects include human figures, mythological and religious subjects, and still lifes.

Most drawings are signed "Shart 63."

Dates

Creation: 1963

Creator

Shart, 1927-2011 (Person)

Access Restrictions

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Biographical Note

Shart (1927-2011), born Sargis Harutyunyan and also known as Serge Shart, was a painter and illustrator who worked primarily in France. He was born in Beirut to Armenian parents and moved to Paris in 1948 to study at the École des Beaux-Arts. In Paris he became friends with fellow French-Armenian artist Jean Carzou. Shart exhibited at solo and groups shows at galleries in Paris, Cherbourg, Beirut, New York, Berne, and Geneva, including multiple exhibitions at the Galerie Vendôme in Paris and various Paris salons.

Sources:

Galerie Alain Daune. (1981). Shart. Galerie Alain Daune: Paris.

Galerie Vendôme. (1960). Shart. Galerie Vendôme: Paris.

Musée d’Art moderne de Paris. (n.d.) Pêcheur à la pipe. https://www.parismuseescollections.paris.fr/en/node/203371#infos-principales

Zahar, Marcel. (1969) Shart. Pierre Callier: Geneva.