Bayram Gümüş
Summer at the Jetty
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 60 × 80 cm
- Viewing
- At the showroom — by appointment
Two wooden jetties reaching into a turquoise bay, and a summer's day spread all around them: hundreds of small figures diving, swimming and sunbathing on mats, parasols, loungers, classic cars and motorcycles drawn up along the shore. Behind rises a band of forest formed of trees each stippled in its own colour; crowns of violet, orange, red and blue are worked one by one with the naive idiom's love of detail. The artist's signature appears at the lower right.
About the Artist
Born in Konya in 1960, Bayram Gümüş moved with his family to Istanbul in 1967. A meeting with the painter Kasım Koçak in 1983 gave new direction to his practice; the following year he opened his own studio and began to earn his living as a painter. One of the leading representatives of Turkish naïve painting, he brings the joy of living and the delight of the everyday to canvas with a wholly distinctive sense of colour. He held his first solo exhibition in Ankara in 1985 and has since exhibited widely in Turkey and the United States.
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