17 July 1921
He shared his studies between Marseilles and Paris, then studied painting at the Académie Julian and the Grande Chaumiere. He was mobilized in the Air Force from 1944 to 1946. He regularly exposed since 1953 in Paris at the Salons d'Automne, Artists Independent Artists and French, as well as Latin Lounge Earth Painters and witnesses of our times. When abroad, he appeared in various group exhibitions or personal in Los Angeles, Brussels, Beirut, New York, New Jersey, Washington.
He won the Silver Medal of the City of Paris in 1955 and the First Prize in drawing Europe in Monaco in 1966

The works of Richard JERANIAN are in many museums: Dallas - Yerevan - Moscow (Pushkin Museum) - Novosibirsk - Paris (Musée d'Art moderne de la ville, National Library) - Saint Petersburg

"It is stated in a style he painted landscapes of Armenia and France, still lifes, nudes, figures, religious subjects: The coming of Christ to Ani (1981), Legendary: The Myth of Sisyphus (1976) Daily: Young girl returns (1980), Surrealism: The Time, The Civilizations (1982), musical tribute to Mozart (1972). If he renews his themes, he also renews his art from figuration, for towards surrealism and cubism and abstraction.
His figurative works are treated with broad brush strokes, in a paste with rich saturated colors. It has also drawn many Indian ink color in a technique of surface-related, giving his compositions of the effects of plans that can be scratched think burning.
The art of JERANIAN is constantly renewing itself, but still relies on a solid construction.
 

AQUISITIONS
1955 – The City of of Paris
1955 - French Administration
1960 - The Imperial Court of Iran
1961 - The Royal Court of Greece
1963 - Dallas Museum - USA
1964 - The Museum of Erevan - Armenia
1967 - St James Monastery in Jerusalem
1969 - The Museum of Erevan
1969 - The State Fund - Armenia
1970 - The Imperial Collection - Iran
1970 - Catholicossat of Etshmiazine - Armenia
1970 - The Museum of Leningrad - Russia
1973 - The National Library – Paris
1975 - The Royal Court of Saudi-Arabia
1979 - Catholicossat of Etshmiazine - Armenia
1980 - The Royal Court of Saudi-Arabia
1980 - The Museum of Novosibirsk – Siberia
1990 - The Museum of Aïvazovsky – Theodosia Crimée
2004 - The Museum of Erevan
2004 - The Museum of Antelias – Beirut
2004 - The Museum of Moussa Tiba – Tyr Lebanon
2005 - The Museum of Erevan

ictionary Benezit 1999