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Jean (Yanco) Varda

Jean (Yanco) Varda (1893 - 1971) was active/lived in California.  Jean Varda is known for Mixed-media, collage abstraction.

Chronology:

1893
Jean Varda, of mixed Greek and French parentage (and by some accounts a descendant of David, the great classical painter) is born in Smyrna, then a part of Greece (now Izmir, in Turkey) on September 11.  Spends boyhood in Smyrna, Alexandria, and Athens.

1905 (about)
Known as a child prodigy, Varda begins receiving receiving commissions for portraits.  As a teenager in Athens he paints innumerable portraits of fashionable Athenians.

1913 (about)
Goes to Paris to study art at L'Ecole des Beaux Arts.  Shares studio with Georges Braque; Picasso lives down the street.  When shown Varda's work, Picasso is said to have remarked, "You are an academic painter.  You are not a contemporary painter."  Varda quickly decides to shed his academic style for something more au courant and drops out of school, dabbling in surrealism and Dada.

1914 (about)
Moves to London

1914-1918 (about)
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