Mireille Richefort Oil On Panel Circus Scene - The Fratellini Clowns - Naive Art

Cirque Fratellini, oil on panel (wood) by Mireille Richefort, French painter based in Narbonne, dedicated to naive art.
Signed lower left.
Titled "Les clowns Fratellini" and dated 1998 on the back.
Good condition.
Painting dimensions : 73 X 60 cm.
Dimensions with frame : 78 X 65 cm
Mireille Richefort attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Nancy and the Ecole des Arts Déco in Nice.
She devoted herself to naive art, painting scenes of grape harvests, weddings in villages, crowds at local markets, the Narbonne carnival, and games of pétanque.
Her oils and watercolors abound with characters in amusing and very colorful attitudes.
She exhibited for forty years in her native region (the South-West) but also in Paris. She won numerous awards.
She had been invited shortly before her death to the World Naive Art Festival in Katowice, Poland.