Marae 1

Watercolor on paper (not restored), 53.5 x 39 cm.
Signature « François Hippolyte » in the back, without date and title.
Private collection of Mrs. Consuelo Geme.
It is another new style and very different from his previous works.
We can detect several tiki and unu, but even the mountains and these last details are insufficient to be able to recognize which marae is actually represented here.
We can also make a strange parallel between these watercolor and a certain and major Japanese graphism! 

 

 

 

 

 

… From a truly fake story by Gaya…