One of the favorite painters of
Mikhail Vartanov who wrote an authoritative
essay on him and was a cinematographer of a documentary
Carzou (1984). Jean
Carzou was awarded France's National Order of Merit; was elected to the
Academie des Beaux-Arts in 1977; was the first French painter whose
work appeared on French postal stamp; was member of the jury at the
1976 Cannes Film Festival.