Enfant Précoce is a painter, born in Cameroon in 1989. He discovered art with his uncle Malam Essoua, sculptor, whose life as a free artist inspired him. Then he dances.
This first love for movement led Francis Essoua alias Enfant Précoce to painting, with which he fell in love in 2013. His canvases mix bodies, sometimes stretched, sometimes relaxed, hands apart, legs projected between African faces and masks. A thousand and one colors bloom. It is the color of children's tales.
Child tells us stories that touch on the universal. The world takes the form of a myth animated by its characters like apparitions captured in color and disproportion. The storyteller's voice is in our eyes. Everywhere the look. He questions, he evaluates. Something of a presence, the gesture, inhabits his creations, apparently spontaneous, but which, nevertheless, obey a constraint.
And while Child tells, Child goes on a quest. Triangles nose, clover nose; fleshy or scarlet mouths; large hands and open hands; flower garden… he explores. His paintings are an invitation to decipher signs, rebuses, symbols; invitation to play on cultural variations. At the end, obviously, the emotion.
Son corps, ses pensées, 2017
59.1 x 43.3 x 1.2 inch
Painting
$4,840
Le diable parle au juge, 2017
78.7 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
Painting
$12,101
Le jardin des tulipes, 2017
35.4 x 51.2 x 1.2 inch
Painting
$6,826
Nianga, le mouton habillé en Louis Vuitton et sa friperie, 2017
102.4 x 82.7 x 1.2 inch
Painting
$24,202
Allo maman, c’est coucou, 2021
35.4 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
Painting
$5,647
Coucou et la poule, 2018
59.1 x 66.9 x 1.2 inch
Painting
$9,681
Les oiseaux de paradis, 2021
27.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
Painting
$4,034
Le soleil près de la fenêtre, 2017
28.7 x 21.3 x 1.2 inch
Painting
$4,840
Sortilège du 13 novembre, 2017
59.1 x 104.3 x 1.2 inch
Painting
$8,067
Mouna et Frieda, les filles de ma mère, 2020
68.9 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
Painting
$12,908
Miroir mon beau miroir, 2019
51.2 x 35 x 1.2 inch
Painting
$9,681
Au revoir okechwukwu, au revoir papa, 2020
59.1 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
Painting
$11,294
Na titi bobe , na titi bwam, 2020
36.2 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
Painting
$8,067
Rainbow, les éléphants accouchent, 2017
47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
Painting
$5,647
Top pamplemousse, 2017
39.4 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
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Un bon marabout wallaye, 2017
82.7 x 102.4 x 1.2 inch
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L’homme de Grimaldi, 2019
78.7 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
Painting
$9,681
Conversations depuis les cieux, 2020
59.1 x 86.6 x 1.2 inch
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La lutte, portrait de famille, 2017
78.7 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
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Ceci n'est pas une muse, 2017
31.5 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
Painting
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