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A perfect painting for lovers of Japan and those of primitive/naive outside art. It is a work by an internatoanlly noted extraordinary artist with an extraordinary life. Maurice LOIRAND (1922-2008) is born into a working class family in Brittany, near the Atlantic coast coast in France. He starts working as a skilled labourer in the shipyards aged 15. Aged 20, when the Nazis start to occupy the country, he joins the Resistance movement, where he meets and befriends thinkers, painters and poets. He is thus introduced to an artistic and intellectual universe far removed from the world of his origins. Loirand finds himself drawn to art, and soon dedicates all his free time to learn how to paint. Completely self taught, he soon begins to exhibit his pictures alongside high level artists. He moves to Paris in the 1950s, and - although still working as a technician - paints all night. He finally becomes a full time artist in 1968. International travel and a multitude of exhibitions follow. He exhibits in Brazil, Argentina, and with Jean Tiroche Gallery in New York, among others. His work is now shown alongside works by Leger, Matisse and Picasso. The Collector's Guild New York Ltd commissions Maurice Loirand for several works of lithographic art. Loirand discovers Japan in the early 1970s, and decides to stay for 18 years. He marries Kazué SHIMOTORI, a Japanese poet...

An extraordinarily moving piece by an outsider artist who must have spent many a day conceiving, cutting, hammering, soldering and welding this stunning metal group made of tin and iron. The result is something completely individualistic, which at the same time recalls early medieval...

Mother and child/maternité: a gorgeous, almost Picasso-like early oil on canvas by Petion Savain, dating from 1953. The painting is monogrammed and dated...

Nobody quite does moonlight quite like Camille Corot. Moonlit landscapes suited the artist's discreet artist's personality and painting. As Baudelaire astutely observed: "M. Corot is...

An early French wooden panel carved in bas relief, depicting a muscular male nude rider, accompanied by his dog. Sculpted in honey-coloured wood, this antique piece, dates from the ...

There is a lot to see in this delicate, luminous landscape: a little fisherman, a figure in his canoe, and the beautiful light on the water. It is an ...

One of a kind shaped painting by Noche Crist (1909 - 2004). Titled "The Kiss" and signed on reverse. Painting is casein paint and plaster on board. Catalogue of an exhibition in...

Embroidered textile painting Hand sewed, unique, hand-signed by the artist Penelope or Parque of modern times, Barbara d’Antuono sews by hand like others recite mantras and decides nothing in advance. She lets images arise without any particular coherence with each other, but to which she gives substance in a kind of urgency, in the form of a strip not drawn but sewn. The exhibition, like the eponymous book, covers seven years of this assiduous and patient work through nearly 30 textile works, real freeze frames made of the emotions and memories of the artist, like so many portraits of humanity. . Her meeting in Haiti with Baron Samedi...

Very pretty montage of indigenous dried wild flowers from Madagascar. Created in the 80s by ladies from a sanctuary for "Fallen Women" Pressed on hand made paper. mad flowers march22

Very pretty montage of indigenous dried wild flowers from Madagascar. Created in the 80s by ladies from a sanctuary for "Fallen Women" Pressed on hand made paper. mad flowers march22

Very pretty montage of indigenous dried wild flowers from Madagascar. Created in the 80s by ladies from a sanctuary for "Fallen Women" Pressed on hand made paper. mad flowers march22

Very pretty montage of indigenous dried wild flowers from Madagascar. Created in the 80s by ladies from a sanctuary for "Fallen Women" Pressed on hand made paper. mad flowers march22