"Naive Art Painting Naive School Haiti Return From Harvest Painting Signed Avril Forest 1989"
Oil on canvas 40 cm x 30 cm sold with its frame 50 cm x 40 cm signed lower right Avril Forest dated 1989 and representing a Haitian landscape animated by characters returning from their picking in the fields. Sold with invoice-certificate. Very good condition. Avril Forest is a Haitian artist born in Port de Paix in Haiti in 1959. In 1973, he moved to Port-au-Prince, capital of HAITI, where he began to make collages from dried banana leaves. In 1980, he became a major painter of the Haitian naive pictorial current and began at the Galerie Monnin. He refined his style characterized by dozens of characters in a monochrome landscape. The painting we are offering you belongs to this period. His work has been exhibited in the past in many important galleries and museums, including the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Germany. He has participated in numerous Haitian exhibitions,