Jovan Zonjić (1907–1961)[1] was one of Serbia's most important painters in the transition from academic to modern painting.
[2] Zonjić graduated from Royal Art School in Belgrade in 1931 and enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris where he lived intermittently until 1939.
That award enabled him to return to Paris and resume his studies at the École des Beaux-Arts which he had previously interrupted due to financial difficulties.
It was stored on one of the underground floors of the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris.
[2] In 2007, an exhibition of Zonjić's paintings from the collection of the Cetinje Museums was organized in Berane and Andrijevica.