Selim Turan

Selim Turan (1915–1994) was a painter and sculptor. Born in Istanbul, Turan received an art education there; in 1947 Turan went to Paris on a scholarship and lived in France from then on. In Paris, Turan attended the Académie Ranson and later taught at the Fontainebleau School of Art and the Académie Goetz. After the war, Turan was among the Turkish artists producing abstract painting and sculpture in the circle of the New School of Paris. In 2003 Turan's spouse, the ceramicist Şahika Turan, donated a collection of 233 paintings and 19 sculptures to Istanbul University.