Traditional Festival 'kak'- Nicolai Michoutouchkine - Oil On Board Signed And Dated 'wallis'

Traditional Festival 'kak' - Oil On Hardboard - Situated Wallis, Dated 66 and Signed

Nicolai Michoutouchkine (1929-2010)

Nicolaï dreams of islands and light from a very young age. He studied art and took drawing and painting classes in Paris. In 1953 he took the route to the Orient, Greece, Turkey, the Middle East, Nepal, India then Australia and arriving in the Pacific zone. He opened the first art gallery in Nouméa with Robert Tatin d'Avesnières in 1959. He met a young Futunian, Aloï Pilioko, who became his lifelong traveling companion. They went to Futuna for two years before settling in Efaté in the New Hebrides in 1961. For the rest of his life he traveled the Pacific and the rest of the world and accumulated a remarkable collection of Oceanian art, a large part of which is exhibited at the Pasifika Museum in Nusa Dua, Bali.