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Six Breasts No Waiting: Haitian Naive Fantasy Henri Rousseau - Heydenryk Frame

Creator: Salnave Philippe Auguste
Offered by: Robert Funk Fine Art

Description
"Six Breasts No Waiting" showcases Haitian Master Salnave Philippe-Auguste's whimsically fruitful imagination. He executes it in a distinctive painting style of simplified composition, stylized organic shapes, and fanciful patterns rendered in flat vivid color. The viewer is treated to a naive yet sophisticated fantasy delight reminiscent of Henri Rousseau but with a Haitian gaze. Signed and dated lower right. The work is housed in a large and elegantly appropriate Heydenryk Frame. Frame size, 46.5 x 36.25. This is a large painting and masterfully framed. It will be a statement piece in any home.
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Salnave Philippe-Auguste (1908 - 1989) was a Haitian painter, lawyer, and magistrate known for his jungle scenes.

Philippe-Auguste's work was included in the travelling exhibition, "Haitian Art," organized by the Brooklyn Museum in 1978, which traveled to the Milwaukee Art Center (now the Milwaukee Art Museum), and the New Orleans Museum of Art. It was also included posthumously in 2020 in New York in “Saving Grace: A Celebration of Haitian Art” and covered in the New York Times.[2] Philippe-Auguste was also the subject of a 2002 Danish documentary Drømmere (Dreamers).
Early life and career.

Salnave Philippe-Auguste was born in 1908 in Saint-Marc, Haiti. He was a self-taught lawyer and magistrate who wrote articles and poetry before he took up painting.
Career

Philippe-Auguste embarked upon painting at 52 partly to support his children and joined the Centre d’Art in Port-au-Prince in December 1960. His jungle scenes reminiscent of the style of French artist Henri Rousseau sold well. Philippe-Auguste also painted in the same style, other scenes from nature, still lifes, fantastical creatures, carnivals, and human figures, especially women,posed against backgrounds of stylized flora and/or fauna.

Philippe-Auguste's work was included in the traveling exhibition, "Haitian Art," organized by the Brooklyn Museum in 1978, which traveled to the Milwaukee Art Center and the New Orleans Museum of Art. His painting Flamingoes was used to advertise it at the Brooklyn Museum.
Technique

Philippe-Auguste made preparatory drawings on tracing paper which he transferred to Masonite for his paintings. He also combined and re-used the drawings.
Collections

Philippe-Auguste's work is in the Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Foundation,the Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, and the Huntington Museum of Art in West Virginia among others. A copy of his Flamingos poster for the 1978 Haitian art exhibit is in the collections of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.
Documentary

He was the subject of a 2002 Danish documentary about Haitian painters Drømmere (Dreamers).
Personal life
Philippe-Auguste was married and had seven children. He died in Port-au-Prince on June 2, 1989. Wikipedia

More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Origin:	Haiti
Period:	1950-1979
Materials:	Oil on Board
Condition:	Good. Very good. Frame has some fading on floral patterns
Creation Date:	1979
Styles / Movements:	Surrealism, Outsider Art, African American
Incollect Reference #:	784026

Dimensions

W.	24 in;	H.	34 in;
W.	60.96 cm;	H.	86.36 cm;

Message from Seller:

Robert Funk Fine Art in Miami offers an eclectic collection shaped by 45 years of experience, blending art with commercial perspectives. For inquiries or art advisory services, contact Robert Funk at decoypoet@yahoo.com or 305.857.0521.