Birds

Indigo Arts' Philadelphia gallery space is closed as I move upstairs to a new space on the fourth floor of the Crane Building. I hope to be up and running again later in May, on a "by appointment or by chance" basis. Meanwhile, the Indigo Arts online gallery is operating as usual, though shipments may be delayed a bit. Please feel free to contact me with any questions in the mean time.

Thanks,

Tony

Shivji and the Mahua flowers (the stages of intoxication)

SKU: Gond-8

Rajendra Shyam

India

Patangarh, Madhya Pradesh State
c.2011
Acrylic on canvas
(48" h. x 30" w. )

In this painting the artist depicts the stages a person goes through when he is intoxicated. Once Lord Shiva was doing penance under a tree he felt thirsty; he looked around for water and found it in a hollow of the Mahua tree. He did not realize that the water contained fermented Mahua flowers. After sipping some, he was euphoric, felt light in the head and became very talkative and chirped like a parrot. He could not resist and had some more. The more he had the louder and aggressive he got, it was as though he had taken the persona of a tiger. By this time he had lost all his senses and could not stand and started rolling on the ground like a wild boar.

$3200

Product Status:

Returned to Artist

Red Birds and Dogs

SKU: JJS-9504

Jorelus Joseph

Haiti

Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Oil on Canvas
(48 x 36), 1995. Framed.
From private collection.

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$3200

Sisson Blanchard (Port-au-Prince, Haiti)

Turkeys

SKU: SB-Turkeys

Sisson Blanchard

Haiti

Oil on board w/ original hand-carved hardwood frame
(24 x 36), c.1970

$ 2,500

Product Status:

Sold

Prospere Pierre-Louis (Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 1947 - 1996)

Spirit with Blue Birds

SKU: PPL-1303

Prosper Pierre-Louis

Haiti

Acrylic on board (24" x 24"), 1991
Framed

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$2500

El Vuelo de las Garzas

SKU: RTL1502

Roberto Torres Lameda

Cuba

Oil on Canvas (21" x 32), 2011
With custom framing.

$2200

Product Status:

Sold

Woman with Birds

SKU: LSF03

Louisiane St. Fleurant

Haiti

Oil on canvas (20 x 24)
1994

$ 2,200

Product Status:

Sold

El Arroyo

SKU: RTL0207

Roberto Torres Lameda

Cuba

(Mella),
Oil on Canvas (23" x 15 1/2", 58cm x 40cm), 2002
Framed by the artist.

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$1500

Bird in the Bush

SKU: SPT-1501

St. Pierre Toussaint

Haiti

Oil on canvas (24" x 36") with original hand-carved frame, c.1978
Condition note: some cracking of paint surface.

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$1,500

Bird

SKU: PJV09

Pierre-Joseph Valcin

Haiti

Pierre-Joseph Valcin (Port-au-Prince, Haiti)
Oil on Canvas (20 x 20), c.1985

$ 1,250

Bobo Bird Mask

SKU: AFM-62

Bobo People

Burkina Faso

Bobo people, Burkina Faso
wood w/ mineral pigments
( 28 1/2" h. x 10 1/2" w. x 9 1/2" d.)

$1250

Untitled

SKU: CPR-08

Cresencio Perez Robles

Mexico

Vintage Huichol yarn painting by
Cresencio Perez Robles
Nayarit, Mexico, c. 1970's
Yarn pressed into beeswax on plywood
(24" x 24")

This 24 X 24 yarn painting is by master artist Cresencio Perez Robles. Perez's work was included in book Art of the Huichol Indians, which accompanied an exhibition of Huichol Indian Art, organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. The exhibition traveled from San Francisco in 1978 to Chicago and New York. It was this show and the accompanying catalogue that first introduced Huichol yarn painting to the general public.
Cresencio Perez Robles work was also featured in the exhibit Living Traditions Mexican Popular Arts in 1992 at the University Art Museum at Albany State University of New York and the accompanying book of the same title.
This picture was made in the 1970's of wool yarn pressed onto wax spread on a wooden board. Today yarn paintings are made of acrylic yarn. On the back the artist wrote the meaning of the piece in both Huichol and in Spanish and it is signed by the artist.

$850