Naive Painting Village With A Large Café And A Little Train Naive Painting Signed Jean Fous 1901-1971

Oil on wood 27 cm x 22 cm sold without its gilded wooden frame 45 cm x 40 cm signed lower right Jean Fous co, signed on the back dated and titled Grand Café le Taco's 1953. 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 field. 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 autumn of 1970, shortly before his death, Jean Fous wrote his autobiography. Painter present at the Anatole Jakovsky Museum of Naive Art, in the Naive Guide to Paris and especially in the World Encyclopedia of Naive Art.