"Le Pouliguen By Gilbert Pajot"
Gilbert Pajot is surely one of the most fascinating and intriguing unofficial painters of the 20th century. Taking up the iconoclastic and naive style of his father Paul-Émile, a fisherman from the Vendée who became a painter. Gilbert Pajot made his career by making portraits of boats, harbors and fishing scenes. This unique and recognizable style among many others is marked by the influence of Japanese iconography which spread in Europe at the end of the 19th century. His work, like that of his father, constitutes one of the most beautiful corpora of works of naive maritime art. This magnificent gouache represents the "Departure of a schooner brick loaded with salt" leaving the port of Pouliguen. Some bites