François OZENDA (1923-1976)

 Village de Montauroux

Gouache signée ,datée et dédicacée

Support : 27 x 37 cm

Cadre : 18,5 x 28,5 cm

Œuvre : 16 x 26 cm

Ozenda, François French , 20th century , male. Born 1923 , in Marseilles; died 1976 , in Marseilles.

Painter. Art Brut. François Ozenda was a marginal artist. In his paintings he created an extraordinary world of entangled, haunted, mysterious ghostly faces, in which primitive drawings, almost scraps, are grouped together.

He sold his paintings and drawings in cafés and restaurants, and worked at night in his friends' homes or any available makeshift studio. He nevertheless had some exhibitions, especially in the south of France, notably in Vence...