Naive Painting Winter Landscape Snow The End Of School Painting Signed Jean Fous

Oil on canvas 65 cm x 50 cm signed lower right Jean Fous countersigned on the back and titled Sortie d'école en hiver representing a village under the snow animated by many characters. Sold with invoice-certificate. Good condition to note a small restoration in the sky at the top right. Almost invisible.

Artist present in all the reference works of naive art. Jean Fous, born April 9, 1901 in Paris and died May 29, 1971 in L'Union near Toulouse, is a French naive painter. The young Jean Fous learned the trade of his father, a framer, but did not continue for long in this path. After various trades and a long stay in the South, he returned to Paris, in the Saint-Sulpice district. Under the impetus of Anatole Jakovsky, met in 1943, he began to paint by taking a subject that he knew intimately the Parisian flea markets. He exhibited about twenty paintings on this theme for the first time in 1944. During the autumn of 1970, shortly before his death, Jean Fous wrote his autobiography.