The Cup Gardened By Raya Sorkine

Superb oil on canvas measuring 46cm x 55cm plus frame 64cm x 73cm, signed lower left RAYA, countersigned on the back and dated 1989. Alain Bouvier de Cachard, known as RAYA SORKINE, was born in Paris in 1936. At the age of twelve, he left school and, barely fourteen, armed with a small sketchbook, he set off on the roads like a nomad. He slept under the stars. Europe, Scandinavia, the Middle East… he went everywhere, drawing or painting. Later, he bought a caravan to continue his travels. Throughout his wandering life, which lasted nearly twenty years, he dispersed his numerous paintings around the world, and he married four women with whom he had seven daughters. Raya Sorkine presents the viewer with a veritable pictorial firework display. Here we have a painter of joy and love, a quality that is deeply ingrained in his heritage. He is the heir to one of the richest revolutions in the history of art, having witnessed classicism, impressionism, and neo-classicism, the explosion of modern art and its many schools, Cézanne, Pablo Picasso, and Marc Chagall. He paints at night while listening to "his music" (cosmic or religious). Free shipping within the European Union. €250 for international shipping.