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Signed and dated ‘Rambinintsoa 63’ (lower left).
Sizes:
Frame: 61 × 49.5 cm | 24 × 19.5 in
Artwork: 51.5 × 40.5 cm | 20.3 × 15.9 in
Under a canopy of white parasols, flower sellers stand behind buckets and baskets overflowing with orange, red, white and mauve blooms; a few figures in blue move among the stalls and cumulus clouds drift overhead. This is the flower market of Analakely in Antananarivo, the most famous motif of Malagasy painting and the signature subject of Jean Rambinintsoa.
Rambinintsoa (1899–1986), trained in Paris and for many years a teacher of drawing in Madagascar, was the leading painter of the island’s first modern generation, alongside Ramanankamonjy and Ramiandrasoa. His market scenes, painted from the 1930s to the 1960s, combine an Impressionist touch with a warm, distinctly Malagasy palette of terracotta, ochre and sky-blue.
Signed and dated ‘Rambinintsoa 63’ at the lower left.
Private Collection, Spain.
Oil on canvas, framed. Good condition; the paint layer is stable; a few small spots of surface dirt. Please contact us to request a detailed Condition Report.
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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.
Jean Rambinintsoa (1899–1986), the leading painter of modern Madagascar: his Paris training, the Analakely flower market under white parasols, and the 1963 canvas offered at Aurora & Athena.
Highlights of the Aurora & Athena autumn sale on 17 October 2026: Bridget Tichenor, Nicholas Roerich, Konstantin Korovin, Gerard Sekoto, Jan Zrzavý, Pan Yuliang, a Miró lithograph and the painters of the École de Paris.
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