FPA Francis Pavy Artist
Indigo
2012

Name: Indigo
Brand: FPA Francis Pavy Artist
Price: 3200 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

Entitled "Indigo" this 2012 painting is part of a series of works celebrating the 200th year of the statehood of Louisiana. In this long work, the Indigo part is depicted on the left. Indigo was first grown in Louisiana before other crops. In the center a large section of grass is painted in Light greenish yellow flanked by a Great Blue heron with a crawfish in his beak. in the lower right corner there is a White Sun framed by a Red circle. The background of willows on the left ages to aquatic swirls on the right. This piece would look great over a door or another place that calls for small horizontal work. Oil on canvas

Creator:

FPA Francis Pavy Artist (1954, American)

Creation Year:

2012

Dimensions:

Height: 11.75 in (29.85 cm)Width: 32.75 in (83.19 cm)Depth: 3 in (7.62 cm)

Medium:

Oil

Movement & Style:

Contemporary

Period:

2010-

Condition:

this work was shown once in 20212 and has been in my inventory ever since.

Gallery Location:

Lafayette, LA

Reference Number:

Seller: #00920121stDibs: LU1906212048822

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FPA Francis Pavy Artist

Francis X. Pavy is a painter and mixed-media artist known for retelling the traditional stories and folklore of South Louisiana through a visual vocabulary of mystic iconography and vibrant colors. Pavy’s career as an artist began as a ceramist before working in glass for many years, eventually transitioning to brush painting, mixed media, and block printing. Common themes in his work include Cajun and Creole music, folk-mysticism, and the native flora and fauna of the Gulf Coast. Francis’ work is represented in galleries around the United States and his work is held in national and international collections. . Pavy’s work has been well-received regionally, nationally, and internationally with one-man exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Houston, Aspen, New Orleans as well as France, and Switzerland. Pavy has also participated in many notable group shows such as Outward Bound: American Art on the Brink of the 21st Century (traveling from the United States to Indonesia and the Middle East), Elvis And Marilyn: 2 Times Immortal (traveling from the United States to Japan), Southern Narrative Painting (Southeast U.S.) and Invites: Peintres Louisianais (Paris, France). Major corporations such as Brown-Ferguson Corporation, Premier, Bancorp, BMG Music, Capitol Records and Rounder Records have collected Pavy’s work in addition to many museums and individual collectors. Notable museums and individual collectors include: The New Orleans Museum of Art and the Morris Museum of Art, Ron Howard, Paul Simon, Lorne Michaels, GLen Frey, Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz,Walker Percy, Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia, Antoine de Caunes, Philippe Djain and Steve Cropper. Pavy’s work has been published in a variety of catalogs, books and magazine articles. Among them are: Elvis & Marilyn: 2 Times Immortal (US & Japanese Editions), The South: A Treasury Of Art and Literature; Francis X. Pavy, La Musique Zydeco: The Colors of Rhythm; and Outward Bound: American Art on the Brink of the 21st Century. Francis X Pavy lives with his wife and two children in Lafayette, Louisiana.