Andre Blaise (Haitian, b. 1961)

Smoking salmon, 1993. Acrylic on canvas, signed and dated in the lower right, in a painted blue wooden frame, overall 11 ¾" x 13 ¾".

Andre Blaise was born in January or February of 1961 in Cap Haitien. His father worked as a mason and tax collector, while his mother sold fruit and vegetables.
Andre is the youngest of four brothers, all of whom are artists. He began to paint at the age of twelve with the help of his famous brother, St. Louis Blaise. His work evolved from depictions of fantastic submarine landscapes toward an increasing focus in the late 1980s on the characters within those landscapes: peculiarly humanoid fish. Of these fish, he has said "Each fish has its own character. There are the rich, the bourgeois, the lawyers in their office, the hunter with his gun, the mailman with a letter in hand, the doctor, the traveller with his suitcase, the dances and the marriages of the fish. One day I even thought of a horse fish. I find value in this style and I work with it." http://www.haitian-art-co.com/artists/ablaise.html

Condition: Very good, minor scuffs to frame.