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1899-1986 | Malagasy
Master of Malagasy Painting and the Antananarivo Markets
Jean Rambinintsoa was born in Madagascar in 1899 and began to paint as a boy. He completed his training in Paris, where he encountered Impressionism, Fauvism and Cubism at first hand, and returned to the island to teach drawing and plastic arts before devoting himself entirely to painting.
With Ramanankamonjy, Ramiandrasoa and Rakoto Ratsimamanga he belongs to the first generation of modern Malagasy painters, whose work is now being rediscovered in France and Madagascar.
Rambinintsoa’s subject was daily life in Madagascar: the flower market of Analakely in Antananarivo under its white parasols, the jacarandas of the highlands, the Mandraka river, rice fields and village roads, painted from the 1930s to the 1960s in an Impressionist touch and a warm palette of terracotta, ochre and blue.
His paintings, signed and usually dated, appear regularly at auction in France and are held in Malagasy and French collections. He died in 1986.
