Javad Hamidi

Javad Hamidi (1918 – 2002)[1] was an Iranian Modernist painter, poet, and educator.

[2] Javad Hamidi was born in 1918 in Hamadan, Qajar Iran.

[3][4] His classmate was Shokouh Riazi, who studied alongside him in both Tehran and in Paris.

[3] He continued his studies under French painter André Lhote.

[3] Hamidi had been a founding member of the "Fighting Cock Society" (Khorūs-e Jangi), an artists group in Iran dedicated to the modern art movement and surrealism.

Javad Hamidi's retirement letter from the University of Tehran, dated February 1980
Javad Hamidi's retirement letter from the University of Tehran, dated February 1980