The original painting is done in gouache on white cardboard. I offer you this fine art reproduction, a 42x42cm poster to be framed by yourself. I've wanted to draw a motif in homage to Josephine Baker for a long time. My parents live 1 km from the Château des Milandes, where Josephine lived and raised her 12 children, all of different nationalities. Some of them know members of my family, and I've always heard about her. Quite a woman!
In this painting, I wanted movement and I tried to represent her in several postures: as a dancer with bananas, as a militant, as a woman of the world with children on her bottom of different skin colors. The background is ivory and there's a dominant red, like passion. I like to immerse myself in an era, in a character before launching into a drawing. I document myself before launching into it, or I travel, and when an image appears to me, I begin my work.