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Style: Outsider Art
Saint Minecraft XXV (Gestural Abstract, Portrait, Persian Artist, 20% OFF)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Golfam Jozdani
Saint Minecraft XXV
Mixed Media on Cardboard; Acrylic, Pencil, Colored Pencil
Size: 9.44 x 14.17 inches (24 x 36 cm)
Signed and dated by hand
COA provided
*Framing Op...
Category
2010s Outsider Art
Materials
Acrylic, Cardboard, Pencil, Color Pencil
Noche Crist Nude Goddess Sculpture
Located in Washington, DC
One of a kind Goddess sculpture by Noche Crist (1909-2004). Noche Crist was an American artist born in Romania. Sculpture is made from polyester res...
Category
1970s Outsider Art
Materials
Acrylic Polymer
$563 Sale Price
24% Off
Peace Ponies. Contemporary Welsh Landscape Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
For those of you familiar with the wild moorlands and mountains of Wales you will know that they’re synonymous with the countryside. These tough, shaggy little ponies have inhabited ...
Category
2010s Outsider Art
Materials
Acrylic
Into God
s Hands: Contemporary Figurative Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
Acrylic paint on box canvas. Ready too hang
Signed
Category
2010s Outsider Art
Materials
Acrylic
French Mid 20th Century Watercolour,
Le Hameau et la Bastide
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By Yves Brayer
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 20th Century gouache on paper of a Provençal village or 'hameau' and a 'bastide' or manor house in the landscape signed or titled 'Bodol' and dated bottom right.
The style and c...
Category
1950s Outsider Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Dante, Original Painting
By Libby Ramage
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A man collaged out of sheet music sings loudly in a visual stream of maps. His animal companion howls a silent tune. Artist Libby R...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Who Let the Dogs Out, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Lee Smith paints a playful pack of dogs leaping headlong, intent on the fun. Bold linework with teal highlights outlines their rich golden hues. The wh...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Fox Under Pink Moon, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"With the world asleep, the fox's senses are awakened," says artist Jessica JH Roller. Running free through the crisp evening air, the nocturnal creature frol...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art
Materials
Acrylic
Noche Crist Goddess Sculpture
Located in Washington, DC
Wonderful and one of a kind nude sculpture by Noche Crist (1909-2004). Sculpture is made from polyester resin. Catalogue of a postumous retrospective in 2008 at the American Universi...
Category
1970s Outsider Art
Materials
Acrylic Polymer
$600 Sale Price
20% Off
Two Leopards in Reflection Pool in a Fantasy Tropical Garden Naive Art
Located in Miami, FL
I think this is one of the finest paints Gustavo Novoa has done. It's from his early period in the mid-1970s. I am privileged to own it. The artist creates a dreamy world of magica...
Category
1970s Outsider Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Naïve Figurative Nude Painting Lucy Boom, Framed Mixed Media on Canvas
Located in FISTERRA, ES
Lucy Boom is a framed naïve-style painting by Inés Silvalde, created in 2018 as part of her Influencers de Taberna series. The piece presents a red-haired, wide-eyed figure pointing ...
Category
2010s Outsider Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
The Kiss
Located in Washington, DC
One of a kind shaped painting by Noche Crist (1909 - 2004). Titled "The Kiss" and signed on reverse.
Painting is casein paint and plaster on board.
Catalogue of an exhibition in...
Category
1980s Outsider Art
Materials
Plaster, Casein, Wood Panel
$1,960 Sale Price
30% Off
Red-Tailed Hawk, Original Painting
By Kira Yustak
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A red-tailed hawk soars high above, while the lake mirrors the mountains and blue sky. Artist Kira Yustak was inspired by watching these birds glide effortles...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art
Materials
Acrylic
He Remembers His Days As A Young Man. Contemporary Figurative Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
From an exhibition created by the artist to celebrate the UK Miners strike from the 1980's
These hard times for whole communities in the Welsh Valleys created a sense of togetherness...
Category
2010s Outsider Art
Materials
Acrylic
Untitled (from ROBOTNICS Series)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Christian Rothmann
ROBOTNICS Series
C-Print
2019
Edition S (Edition of 10)
12 x 8.3 inches (30.5 x 21 cm)
Signed, dated and numbered verso
Other Edition Sizes available:
- Edition ...
Category
2010s Outsider Art
Materials
C Print
Yellow Springs Deer Family, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
In this whimsical painting, a family of deer roams around a nature reserve. An owl perches on one of the trees, silently observing the woodland activity. A profusion of flowers adorn the scene, adding to the charm of the composition.
About the Artist
Artist Jessica JH Roller paints whimsical and playful compositions of animals and people, marked by bold colors and primitivist linework. She distills a scene into a few simple shapes, using color to create contrast and vibrancy, often choosing palettes that reflect pop culture. "My adopted kittens, Tony and Larry, opened my eyes and unleashed the artist inside me," shares Jessica. "After, I started to notice birds, trees, color, everything." Jessica brings to life her dynamic creations in the comfort of her studio in her century-old home. She enjoys listening to music and audiobooks while painting with her 18-year-old acrylic-covered easel. When not painting, Jessica cherishes time with her family and five cats, teaches yoga, and enjoys cycling along the river.
Words that describe this painting: forest, deer, deers, wildlife, folk, trees, owl, tree, trees, whimsical, nursery, animals, primitive, acrylic painting, red
Yellow Springs Deer Family...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art
Materials
Acrylic
Gathering (original mixed media on paper)
By Purvis Young
Located in Aventura, FL
Original mixed media on paper. Hand signed on front by Purvis Young. Artwork size 11.25 x 8.25 inches. Frame size approx 17 x 14 inches.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certif...
Category
Late 20th Century Outsider Art
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Mixed Media, Pen
$1,250 Sale Price
50% Off
Outsider Folk Art Expressionist Rabbi Israeli Painting Signed Hebrew Jewish Star
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a signed portrait painting done in an outsider, folk art, expressionist style. it is signed in Hebrew, also marked with a Jewish star. this is from a collection of works by the same hand. they are all signed. Some have markings to the back of the paper. they have some age to them. They bear similarities to artists as dissimilar as Moshe Tamir, Mane Katz and an Israeli version of Purvis Young. In this piece the artist choice of colors is muted yet powerful.
Israel has had a Vibrant Folk Art, Naive art scene for a long time now, artists like Yisrael Paldi, Nahum Guttman, Reuven Rubin and even Yefim Ladyzhensky had naive periods. The most well know of the strict naive artists are Shalom of Safed, Irene Awret, Gabriel Cohen, Natan Heber, Michael Falk and Kopel Gurwin.
Naïve art is any form of visual art that is created by a person who lacks the formal education and training that a professional artist undergoes (in anatomy, art history, technique, perspective, ways of seeing). Unlike folk art, naïve art does not necessarily evince a distinct cultural context or tradition. Naïve art is recognized, and often imitated, for its childlike simplicity and frankness. Paintings of this kind typically have a flat rendering style with a rudimentary expression of perspective.
One particularly influential painter of "naïve art" was Henri Rousseau (1844–1910), a French Post-Impressionist who was discovered by Pablo Picasso.
Naïve art is often seen as outsider art that is by someone without formal (or little) training or degree. While this was true before the twentieth century, there are now academies for naïve art. Naïve art is now a fully recognized art genre, represented in art galleries worldwide.
Museums devoted to naïve art now exist in Kecskemét, Hungary; Riga, Latvia; Jaen, Spain; Rio de Janeiro, Brasil; Vicq France and Paris. "Primitive art" is another term often applied to art by those without formal training, but is historically more often applied to work from certain cultures that have been judged socially or technologically "primitive" by Western academia, such as Native American, sub saharan African or Pacific Island art (see Tribal art). This is distinguished from the self-conscious, "primitive" inspired movement primitivism. Another term related to (but not completely synonymous with) naïve art is folk art.
There also exist the terms "naïvism" and "primitivism" which are usually applied to professional painters working in the style of naïve art (like Paul Gauguin, Mikhail Larionov, Paul Klee).
At all events, naive art can be regarded as having occupied an "official" position in the annals of twentieth-century art since - at the very latest - the publication of the Der Blaue Reiter, an almanac in 1912. Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, who brought out the almanac, presented 6 reproductions of paintings by le Douanier' Rousseau (Henri Rousseau), comparing them with other pictorial examples. However, most experts agree that the year that naive art was "discovered" was 1885, when the painter Paul Signac became aware of the talents of Henri Rousseau and set about organizing exhibitions of his work in a number of prestigious galleries.
The Earth Group (Grupa Zemlja) were Croatian artists, architects and intellectuals active in Zagreb from 1929 to 1935. The group included the painters Krsto Hegedušić, Edo Kovačević, Omer Mujadžić, Kamilo Ružička, Ivan Tabaković, and Oton Postružnik, the sculptors Antun Augustinčić, Frano Kršinić, and the architect Drago Ibler. Art brut, primitive art, primitive, art naïf, naïve art. Outsider art. A term applied to Yugoslav (Croatian) naive painters working in or around the village of Hlebine, near the Hungarian border, from about 1930. Some of the best known naive artists are Dragan Gaži, Ivan Generalić, Josip Generalić, Krsto Hegedušić, Mijo Kovačić, Ivan Lacković-Croata, Franjo Mraz, Ivan Večenaj and Mirko Virius.
Camille Bombois (1883–1970) Ferdinand Cheval, known as 'le facteur Cheval' (1836–1924)
Henry Darger (1892–1973) L. S. Lowry (1887–1976) Grandma Moses, Anna Mary Robertson (1860–1961) Nikifor (1895–1968) Poland, Horace Pippin (1888–1946) Jon Serl (1894-1993) United States
Alfred Wallis (1855–1942) Scottie Wilson (1890–1972) Gesner Abelard (b. 1922) Jan Balet (1913–2009) Michel Delacroix (b. 1933) France Howard Finster (1916–2001) Ivan Rabuzin (1921–2008)
Spontaneous Art Museum in Brussels
Art en Marge Museum in Brussels
MADmusée in Liege
International Museum of Naive Art of Brazil in Cosme Velho, Rio de Janeiro
Gallery Jacques Ardies in São Paulo
Musée international d'art naïf de Magog in Magog
Croatian Museum of Naïve Art in Zagreb
Gallery of Croatian Naïve Art...
Category
20th Century Outsider Art
Materials
Gouache
Band Practice, Original Painting
By Andrea Doss
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Andrea Doss presents a whimsical fantasy piece of woodland animals playing musical instruments. The pale crescent moon gives a silvery glow as the raccoon, frog, and squirrel serenade at night. "Band practice was on every Tuesday and was usually a chaotic affair," says Andrea. "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art
Materials
Acrylic
Justin McCarthy Painting, Outsider Art
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Justin McCarthy (American, 1891-1977)
Marking(s); notes: no marking(s) apparent
Materials: board/panel
Dimensions (H, W, D): 24"h, 16"w
Additional Info...
Category
20th Century Outsider Art
Materials
Paint, Board
$3,500 Sale Price
30% Off
Black Cat on Cyan, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Jessica JH Roller paints a primitivist portrait of her cat, Rachel. With her sleek black fur and striking yellow eyes, the feline's electric personalit...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art
Materials
Acrylic
Girl with Cat
Located in Washington, DC
One of a kind painting by Noche Crist (1909- 2004). Noche Crist was an American artist born in Romania. Painting is made with casein on plaster on wood. Catalogue of a postumous ret...
Category
1960s Outsider Art
Materials
Plaster, Wood, Casein
"Pexto Car, " Mixed-Media Sculpture
Located in Chicago, IL
To Chicago-based artist Patrick Fitzgerald, his miniature car sculptures are a means of traveling through time. Born from a fascination with the soap box derby cars of his youth, eac...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art
Materials
Wood, Paper, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
Girl with Black Cat and Plants, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A daydreaming twelve-year-old holds her velvety black cat, surrounded by a jungle of houseplants. The painting is inspired by the artist Jessica JH Roller's daughter, Wren, and her ever-loyal cat, Pepper. Created using layers of high-quality acrylic paint, this piece captures a moment of serene contemplation amidst a lush, green backdrop.
About the Artist
Artist Jessica JH Roller paints whimsical and playful compositions of animals and people, marked by bold colors and primitivist linework. She distills a scene into a few simple shapes, using color to create contrast and vibrancy, often choosing palettes that reflect pop culture. "My adopted kittens, Tony and Larry, opened my eyes and unleashed the artist inside me," shares Jessica. "After, I started to notice birds, trees, color, everything." Jessica brings to life her dynamic creations in the comfort of her studio in her century-old home. She enjoys listening to music and audiobooks while painting with her 18-year-old acrylic-covered easel. When not painting, Jessica cherishes time with her family and five cats, teaches yoga, and enjoys cycling along the river.
Words that describe this painting: portrait, girl, houseplants, cat, folk, pet, friendship, love, foliage, animals, people, primitive, acrylic painting, pink
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art
Materials
Acrylic
The Wilderness, Original Painting
By Kira Yustak
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A whimsical, folk art style painting of nature interacting with a human in the forest. A snake wraps itself around the outstretched hand while a cardinal rest...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art
Materials
Acrylic
Firefly Field, Original Painting
By Andrea Doss
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
The magic of fireflies fills the field, tempting three clever foxes to chase and capture them. They intend to use the glowing insects for various important pu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art
Materials
Acrylic
Outsider Art Painting:
Come See
Located in New York, NY
Scott likes to think of his work as what it might look like if an overly observant 5 year old kid from New Jersey left hieroglyphics for alien life forms to discover. A mixture of Sc...
Category
2010s Outsider Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil Crayon
Lithograph from from the Artsounds Collection, signed/n famed cult artist LGBTQ
By Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt
Located in New York, NY
Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt
Untitled, from from the Artsounds Collection, 1986
Lithograph on paper
Signed and numbered from the edition of 200 in ink on the back; also bears artist's stamped name and provenance - Art Sounds portfolio.
12 × 12 inches
Unframed
Signed and numbered from the edition of 200 in ink on the back; also bears artist's stamped name and provenance - Art Sounds portfolio.
This terrific offset lithograph print exemplifies the combination of religion and kitsch that Lanigan Schmidt is best known for. This print was created in the 1980s for the famous Artsounds portfolio, which featured prints by Marcel Duchamp, Jonathan Borofsky among others. Lanigan-Schmidt was a subject of a 2013 retrospective at PS1 MOMA and is on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts in New York.
Provenance:
Artsounds Portfolio
About Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt:
Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt is represented in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA, Brooklyn Museum, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Ackland Art Museum, Columbus Museum of Art, and Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, among others. He has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and Europe, including the 1980 and 1984 Venice Biennales, the 1991 Whitney Biennial, and the 1999 exhibition The American Century: Art and Culture, 1950-2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. Recent solo exhibitions include Tenemental: With Sighs Too Deep for Words, Howl! Happening, New York (2018); Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt: Mysterium Tremendum, Rockland Art Center, NY (2013); and Ecce Homo: Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt & The Art of Rebellion, Pavel Zoubok...
Category
1980s Outsider Art
Materials
Lithograph
The Elephant
s Tea Party, Original Painting
By Andrea Doss
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"The elephant always hosted the best tea parties, everyone agreed," says artist Andrea Doss. "Her dream was to bake a cake taller than the giraffe, but she ha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art
Materials
Acrylic
Adventures with a Dragon, Original Painting
By Andrea Doss
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"While both very large and very strong, Fritz was a very timid dragon," says artist Andrea Doss. "He was afraid of everything, from the shadows of tree branch...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art
Materials
Acrylic
Les Betes de la Cote D
Azur, Original Painting
By Libby Ramage
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Combining handmade paper with old postcard ephemera, artist Libby Ramage demonstrates a modern abstract piece. She forms whimsica...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art
Materials
Mixed Media
The Sanctuary
Located in Washington, DC
Painting by Noche Crist (1909 - 2004). Work is titled "The Sanctuary" and signed.
Painting is casein paint and plaster on board.
Catalogue of an exhibition in 2008 at the Katzen...
Category
1990s Outsider Art
Materials
Mirror, Plaster, Casein, Wood Panel
$1,960 Sale Price
30% Off
Wolf and Hedgehogs, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Using her signature folk art-style, artist Jessica JH Roller captures an endearing portrait of a wolf and two hedgehogs in a verdant abstract landscape. Jessi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art
Materials
Acrylic
Girl with Cat
Located in Washington, DC
Painting by Noche Crist (1909 - 2004). Work is untitled and signed. Measures 22" x 12".
Painting is casein paint and plaster on board.
Catalogue of an exhibition in 2008 at the...
Category
1960s Outsider Art
Materials
Acrylic
$1,170 Sale Price
40% Off
"Untitled" by Steven H. Rehfeld - Blue, Orange, and Earth Tone Abstract Painting
Located in Carmel, CA
Steven H. Rehfeld (American, born 1954)
"Untitled" 1992
Oil Paint, Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Canvas, Stretcher Bars
The artist signed the back of the painting.
"Untitled" by Steven H...
Category
1990s Outsider Art
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Oil, Stretcher Bars
"Pills" - Outsider Pop Art - Woodblock on Paper (#5/5)
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant multi-layer woodblock print by Robin Blake (American, 1955). Three layers of neon ink (yellow, magenta, and blue) form a zoomed-in composition of pills. The bright colors cre...
Category
2010s Outsider Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Woodcut
As In You
Located in Red Bank, NJ
Outsider artist Scott Harbison imagines a world of curious alien beings and wide-eyed mutant animals, naively navigating unknown territory. His mischievous figures are activated by s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art
Materials
Oil Crayon, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Military Man on Horseback with Haitian Flag
By Philomé Obin
Located in Miami, FL
After Hector Hyppolite, Philomé Obin may be Haiti's most significant painter. In the present work, Philomé Obin depicts a familiar Haitian street scene with colorful facades and thre...
Category
1960s Outsider Art
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Voodoo Devils Take the Sick - The Fight of Good vs Evil - Vodou
Located in Miami, FL
Devils depicted. Artist Wilson Bigaud paints a graphic narrative of mid-century life in Haiti without modern medicine. A man is dying yet there is no doctor present. In the struggle...
Category
1950s Outsider Art
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Fish, Unique Found Object Wall Sculpture by Mr. Imagination
By Mr. Imagination (Gregory Warmack)
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Mr. Imagination (aka Gregory Warmack), American (1948 - 2012)
Title: Fish
Year: circa 1985
Medium: Aluminum Collage with Bottle Caps Sculpture
Size: 19.5 x 37.5 x 2 in. (49.5...
Category
1980s Outsider Art
Materials
Metal
Barren (American Depression) - Polaroid, Contemporary, Landscape, Photography
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Barren (American Depression) - 1997
44x59cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inv...
Category
1990s Outsider Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Magic Hour (Musica Poetica) - analog
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Magic Hour (Musica Poetica) - 1997
44x59cm,
Edition 4/10.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Arti...
Category
1990s Outsider Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Magic Hour (Stranger than Paradise) - analog
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Magic Hour (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999
44x59cm,
Edition 3/10.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist In...
Category
1990s Outsider Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Flower Caryatid - Blue Woman Cut Out Sculpture Painting
Located in Washington, DC
Important one of a kind painting by Noche Crist (1909 - 2004). A shaped painting titled " Flower Caryatid". Noche Crist imbued her cutouts with more...
Category
1990s Outsider Art
Materials
Plaster, Mirror, Wood, Acrylic
$2,250 Sale Price
40% Off
Large 1960s French Art Brut Lithograph Bold Black
White Op Art Philippe Dereux
Located in Surfside, FL
printed by Pierre Chave, Vence, published by Bianchi Frères in Nice, France
ink on watermarked chiffon de Mandeure paper, hand signed in pencil lower right, "PH Dureux," numbered 4/5...
Category
1960s Outsider Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Lithograph
Large Masterwork Haitian Folk Art Steel Drum Metal Work Sculpture Murat Brierre
Located in Surfside, FL
This work is hand signed. It is not dated.
Murat Brierre or Murat Briere (1938–1988) was one of Haiti's principal metal sculptors. He was influenced by George Liautaud, but his work acquired its own, highly experimental style, often focusing on multi-faceted and conjoined figures, fantastically personified elements, and unborn babies visible within larger creatures. He sculpted works that reflected both Christian and Haitian Vodou themes.
Murat BRIERRE was born in Mirebalais in 1938. He first worked as a builder, cabinetmaker and blacksmith before being introduced to Le Centre d’Art in 1966. After trying painting with DeWitt Peters, he realized that metal sculpture was best suited for him and studied under Georges Liautaud in order to learn the métier. He also made very beautiful linocuts. Francine Murat quickly recognized his talent and considered Brierre to be one of the best Haitian sculptors. He passed away in 1988 at the age of 50. Brierre was known for his recycling of surplus steel oil drum lids.
Brierre worked as a brick mason, cabinetmaker, tile setter, and blacksmith. He was born in Mirebalais or Port-au-Prince, Haiti and was the younger of two brothers. His older brother, Edgar Brierre, was a painter and sculptor. The brother's signed their works with only their last name, creating some confusion within their professional circles about the authorship of their work.
Brierre's sculptures typically ranged from three to six feet in length and reflected Christian, Haitian Vodou, and folklore themes. Brierre was also a painter, but ultimately chose to work with metal because he felt that the material was saturated with spiritual energy. It was a laborious process. The oil drum lids were hammered flat, drawn onto, then cut with a razor. The sheet was then cut with a chisel before finishing was completed with a file. By the mid1970s, Brierre's sculptures included pronounced areas of cut outs surrounding long curved lines of metal. Brierre's iron sculpture titled Chien de Mer overlays a dog head onto the body of a fish.
Haiti has long celebrated a rich artistic and cultural heritage. Georges Liautaud (1899–1991) ignited the Haitian metal sculpture movement in the 1950s in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti. A blacksmith by trade, he fashioned crosses for public cemeteries before creating more elaborate cut-metal works. Liautaud disseminated the distinctly Haitian art form to emerging artists, such as Murat Brièrre (1938–88) and the Louisjuste brothers, Sérésier, Janvier, and Joseph (1940–89). They, in turn, taught others in Croix-des-Bouquets, including Gabriel Bien-Aimé (b. 1951) and Serge Jolimeau (b. 1952), Haiti’s two leading metal sculptors working today.
Discarded steel oil drums have historically served as the base material for Haitian metal artists. The drums’ lids are cut open with a chisel and hammer and a long vertical split is made along the side of the drums. The interiors are filled with dried sugarcane or grass and lit on fire to remove any grime; once cool, the drums are flattened into sheets. Designs are chalked on; pieces are then cut and sculpted using only hand tools and further enhanced by hammering, embossing, cutting holes, and bending the metal. Sculptures reflect everyday life portraits, imaginative themes, and motifs of Haitian Vodou, an African Diasporic religion. Some of the many forms that appear include angels and winged creatures, mermaids and other aquatic figures, musical bands, animals, and earthly, paradisiacal scenes.
Solo exhibitions
1967 – Haitian Art Gallery, New York
1968 – Centre d'Art, Port-au-Prince, Haiti; Bradley Galleries, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Georgetown Graphics Gallery, Washington D.C.; Menschoff Gallery, Chicago; John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin; Roko Gallery, New York
1969 – Centre d'Art, Port-au-Prince, Haiti; Showcase Gallery, Washington D.C.; Botolph Group, Boston
1970 – Centre d'Art, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
1972 – Centre d'Art, Port-au-Prince, Haiti; Roko Gallery, New York
1979 – Areta Contemporary Design, Boston
Group exhibitions
1969 – Davenport Art Gallery, Iowa
1974 – Davenport Art Gallery, Iowa
1978 – Brooklyn Museum, New York (traveling)
1982 – Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
1983 – Chicago Public Library Cultural Center
1985 – Davenport Art Gallery, Iowa
1987 – Musée du Panthéon National, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
1988 – Galeries Nationales d'Exposition du Grand Palais, Paris
1989 – Museum of Art, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
2006 – Phyllis Kind Gallery in conjunction with the Outsider Art Fair, New York
2024 Ayiti Toma II: Faith, Family, and Resistance, Luhring Augustine, Tribeca, New York
2023 Haitian Metal Sculpture, SFO Museum, California, USA
2015 Celebrating African American Art, Flomenhaft Gallery, Chelsea, New York, USA
An important exhibition of works by outstanding African American artists. Included were: Emma Amos, Benny Andrews, Romare Bearden, Murat Brierre, Beverly Buchanan...
Category
Mid-20th Century Outsider Art
Materials
Iron
Sal Hays (not Hayes)
Located in Red Bank, NJ
Outsider artist Scott Harbison imagines a world of curious alien beings and wide-eyed mutant animals, naively navigating unknown territory. His mischievous figures are activated by s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art
Materials
Oil Crayon, Acrylic, Board
Spalted Beech 643
By Philip Moulthrop
Located in Phoenix, AZ
turned wood
"I think of my wood turning as a way to reveal the beauty and texture found in the wood. The wood I use comes from trees, which are native to the southeastern United Sta...
Category
Early 2000s Outsider Art
Materials
Wood, Polyurethane
Purvis Young Painting, Estate of the Artist
By Purvis Young
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Purvis Young (1943-2010)
Marking(s); notes: no marking(s) apparent
Country of origin; materials: American; paint on fabric
Dimensions (H, W, D): 13"h, 18"w; 34.5"h, 30.75"w frame
Additional Information: Provenance: Gallery 721, Larry Clemons, Fort Lauderdale, Florida Private Collection, Aventura, Florida.
Purvis Young (1943–2010) was a self-taught American artist from Miami’s Overtown neighborhood, known for his raw, expressive paintings on found materials that explore themes of social justice, spirituality, and everyday urban life. His work resonates with the visual urgency of Jean-Michel Basquiat, the narrative power of Thornton Dial, and the outsider spirit of Bill Traylor and Sister Gertrude Morgan...
Category
20th Century Outsider Art
Materials
Fabric, Paint
$2,450 Sale Price
30% Off
Untitled
by Steven H. Rehfeld - Large Vibrant Still Life Painting with Flora
Located in Carmel, CA
Steven H. Rehfeld (American, 1954)
'Untitled' 2015
Oil paint, canvas, stretcher bars
The artist signed the back of the painting.
About the Artist:
Introducing Steven H. Rehfeld, a d...
Category
2010s Outsider Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Goldfinch at Rest, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Walking to a store one regular June afternoon, artist Jessica JH Roller noticed three goldfinches buzzing between a tree and a telephone pole. Drawn by her fa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art
Materials
Acrylic
La Serenissima, Mid-Century Acrylic on Board, Venetian Gondolas.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid-Century acrylic on board of Venetian gondolas in harbour signed L Mariani, bottom right.
This is a jewel of a painting. Its bright, joyful and intense c...
Category
Mid-20th Century Outsider Art
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Doves with Zinnia, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A family of doves nest on the porch roof of artist Jessica JH Roller's neighbor. Their chicks often wander to Jessica's fence, where they rest and perch among...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art
Materials
Acrylic
Home Sweet Home (original mixed media on paper)
By Purvis Young
Located in Aventura, FL
Original mixed media drawing on paper. Hand signed on front by Purvis Young. Artwork size 10.375 x 7.875 inches. Frame size approx 16 x 14 inches.
Artwork is in excellent conditi...
Category
Late 20th Century Outsider Art
Materials
Paper, Crayon
$1,250 Sale Price
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Eden Lockdown, colorful humorous nude woman with apple and snake
Located in Brooklyn, NY
oil on linen on mounted board
outsider pastel on archival paper
*ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking f...
Category
2010s Outsider Art
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Yellow Tigre Dance Mask Zitlala Guerrero, Mexico
Located in Morton Grove, IL
A VERY rare Tigre (TIGER) Dance Mask Zitlala Guerrero, Mexico.
Anonymous Deep Yellow Tigre Dance Mask.
Early 20th C. Zitlala Guerrero, Mexico.
Painted leather and fur.
Museum-quality...
Category
Early 20th Century Outsider Art
Materials
Leather, Acrylic
Outsider Folk Art Expressionist Rabbi Israeli Painting Signed Hebrew Jewish Star
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a signed portrait painting done in an outsider, folk art, expressionist style. it is signed in Hebrew, also marked with a Jewish star. this is from a collection of works by the same hand. they are all signed. Some have markings to the back of the paper. they have some age to them. They bear similarities to artists as dissimilar as Moshe Tamir, Mane Katz and an Israeli version of Purvis Young. In this piece the artist choice of colors is muted yet powerful.
Israel has had a Vibrant Folk Art, Naive art scene for a long time now, artists like Yisrael Paldi, Nahum Guttman, Reuven Rubin and even Yefim Ladyzhensky had naive periods. The most well know of the strict naive artists are Shalom of Safed, Irene Awret, Gabriel Cohen, Natan Heber, Michael Falk and Kopel Gurwin.
Naïve art is any form of visual art that is created by a person who lacks the formal education and training that a professional artist undergoes (in anatomy, art history, technique, perspective, ways of seeing). Unlike folk art, naïve art does not necessarily evince a distinct cultural context or tradition. Naïve art is recognized, and often imitated, for its childlike simplicity and frankness. Paintings of this kind typically have a flat rendering style with a rudimentary expression of perspective.
One particularly influential painter of "naïve art" was Henri Rousseau (1844–1910), a French Post-Impressionist who was discovered by Pablo Picasso.
Naïve art is often seen as outsider art that is by someone without formal (or little) training or degree. While this was true before the twentieth century, there are now academies for naïve art. Naïve art is now a fully recognized art genre, represented in art galleries worldwide.
Museums devoted to naïve art now exist in Kecskemét, Hungary; Riga, Latvia; Jaen, Spain; Rio de Janeiro, Brasil; Vicq France and Paris. "Primitive art" is another term often applied to art by those without formal training, but is historically more often applied to work from certain cultures that have been judged socially or technologically "primitive" by Western academia, such as Native American, sub saharan African or Pacific Island art (see Tribal art). This is distinguished from the self-conscious, "primitive" inspired movement primitivism. Another term related to (but not completely synonymous with) naïve art is folk art.
There also exist the terms "naïvism" and "primitivism" which are usually applied to professional painters working in the style of naïve art (like Paul Gauguin, Mikhail Larionov, Paul Klee).
At all events, naive art can be regarded as having occupied an "official" position in the annals of twentieth-century art since - at the very latest - the publication of the Der Blaue Reiter, an almanac in 1912. Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, who brought out the almanac, presented 6 reproductions of paintings by le Douanier' Rousseau (Henri Rousseau), comparing them with other pictorial examples. However, most experts agree that the year that naive art was "discovered" was 1885, when the painter Paul Signac became aware of the talents of Henri Rousseau and set about organizing exhibitions of his work in a number of prestigious galleries.
The Earth Group (Grupa Zemlja) were Croatian artists, architects and intellectuals active in Zagreb from 1929 to 1935. The group included the painters Krsto Hegedušić, Edo Kovačević, Omer Mujadžić, Kamilo Ružička, Ivan Tabaković, and Oton Postružnik, the sculptors Antun Augustinčić, Frano Kršinić, and the architect Drago Ibler. Art brut, primitive art, primitive, art naïf, naïve art. Outsider art. A term applied to Yugoslav (Croatian) naive painters working in or around the village of Hlebine, near the Hungarian border, from about 1930. Some of the best known naive artists are Dragan Gaži, Ivan Generalić, Josip Generalić, Krsto Hegedušić, Mijo Kovačić, Ivan Lacković-Croata, Franjo Mraz, Ivan Večenaj and Mirko Virius.
Camille Bombois (1883–1970) Ferdinand Cheval, known as 'le facteur Cheval' (1836–1924)
Henry Darger (1892–1973) L. S. Lowry (1887–1976) Grandma Moses, Anna Mary Robertson (1860–1961) Nikifor (1895–1968) Poland, Horace Pippin (1888–1946) Jon Serl (1894-1993) United States
Alfred Wallis (1855–1942) Scottie Wilson (1890–1972) Gesner Abelard (b. 1922) Jan Balet (1913–2009) Michel Delacroix (b. 1933) France Howard Finster (1916–2001) Ivan Rabuzin (1921–2008)
Spontaneous Art Museum in Brussels
Art en Marge Museum in Brussels
MADmusée in Liege
International Museum of Naive Art of Brazil in Cosme Velho, Rio de Janeiro
Gallery Jacques Ardies in São Paulo
Musée international d'art naïf de Magog in Magog
Croatian Museum of Naïve Art in Zagreb
Gallery of Croatian Naïve Art...
Category
20th Century Outsider Art
Materials
Gouache
The Golden Sea. Female bather with lobster warm yellow and soft red color
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is an oil painted on linen mounted on cradled wood panel titled signed and dated on reverse.
It is a humorous allegory depicting a bather holding a large golden yellow lobster....
Category
2010s Outsider Art
Materials
Linen, Oil, Wood Panel
Pastry chef food cooking theme sweet color figure resembles delicious cakes
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This painting is inspires by the painting of chaim soutine pastry chefs.
Category
2010s Outsider Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Contemporary landscape oil painting lake trees sky reflection signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Summer Whisper" is an original oil painting by Robert Richter. The artist signed the piece on the back. This painting depicts a view over a serene lake. The painting has carved part...
Category
Early 2000s Outsider Art
Materials
Wood, Oil
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