{"product_id":"marceau-sanon-village-life-flowering-tree-c1980","title":"Marceau Sanon 24\"x36\" Village Life Beneath a Flowering Tree c1980  Oil on Canvas Unframed Painting #1CG","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eMarceau Sanon captures the rhythm of rural Haitian life in this sweeping hillside composition, painted in oil on canvas around 1980. A magnificent flowering tree, its canopy dense with blossoms, anchors the foreground and shades a scene of quiet industry below. Dozens of small figures move through terraced fields of green, tending crops and gathering along winding paths, while a scattering of brightly painted houses in yellow, pink, white, and ochre dot the landscape. Sanon's layered brushwork and elevated vantage point give the painting a panoramic, almost aerial quality, characteristic of his best landscape work from this period.This piece comes from a private collection in Connecticut, where the painting is currently located and will ship directly to the buyer. It is offered unframed, measuring 24 x 36 inches and signed M. Sanon in the lower right corner. We will provide a Certificate of Authenticity. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMarceau Sanon is a Haitian painter working in the naïve, primitive tradition, known for vibrant depictions of rural life and agricultural labor. His paintings center on field workers engaged in daily crop work, rendered with direct, unadorned forms and a bold, saturated palette. Sanon's compositions favor narrative clarity over technical refinement, a hallmark of the primitivist approach that values lived experience and direct observation over academic training. Recurring scenes of planting, harvesting, and communal labor position his work within the broader visual record of Haiti's peasant class and agrarian culture. Straightforward and unsentimental, his paintings document rural labor as both economic necessity and cultural continuity, offering collectors an authentic window into the daily realities of Haiti's countryside and its rich rural traditions.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Marceau Sanon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50540061196531,"sku":"SANONMARCEAU#1CD","price":1121.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0527\/9979\/9453\/files\/MarceauSanon24_x36_OilonCanvasUnframedPainting_1CD.jpg?v=1787793860","url":"https:\/\/www.naderhaitianart.com\/en-gb\/products\/marceau-sanon-village-life-flowering-tree-c1980","provider":"Myriam Nader Haitian Art Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}