French Naïve School Painting The Wedding Ceremony Painting Signed Jean Fous 1901-1971

Oil on isorel 24 cm x 19 cm sold with its frame 38 cm x 33 cm signed lower right Jean Fous countersigned on the back and titled "marriage". Sold with invoice-certificate. Good condition. 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 frame maker, 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 influence of Anatole Jakovsky, whom he met in 1943, he began to paint by taking a subject that he knew intimately, the Parisian flea markets. He exhibited for the first time in 1944 about twenty paintings on this theme. In the fall of 1970, shortly before his death, Jean Fous wrote his autobiography. The painter is featured at the Anatole Jakovsky Museum of Naive Art and in the Naive Guide to Paris.