Maurice Martin French, 1894-1978

Description

Maurice Martin’s Vue de Marché à Madagascar, 1960 captures the vitality of everyday life at a Malagasy marketplace. Painted in the year he received the Prix de Madagascar, the scene brims with movement - rickshaws, parasols and figures animated in brilliant sunlight. With expressive brushwork and glowing colour, Martin transforms a bustling street into a lyrical record of Madagascar’s independence-era spirit.