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The Czech-French painter Jaroslav Serpan (actually Sossountzov) was born on June 4, 1922 in Prague. He came to France with his family in 1926 and studied biology and mathematics at the Sorbonne starting in 1939. He was a self-taught painter and also worked as a writer. From 1946 – 1948, Jaroslav Serpan was a member of the group of Surrealists and exhibited with them in 1947 at Gallery Maeght. In 1948, the artist turned away from Surrealism and devoted himself to Art Informel under the influence of Antoni Tápie (*1923), Andre Masson (1896 – 1987), and Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze (a.k.a Wols 1913 – 1951). Jaroslav Serpan received his doctorate in...