Coast of brazil

Name: Moses Kahnert
First Name: Veda
Date of birth: Kingston Jamaica 1924 – Suresnes France 2017
Material: Oil
Support: Canvas
Dimensions of the work: H 90 W 122
Frame dimensions: H 95 W 126
Subject: Coast of Brazil
Observations: Signed with the monogram VMK 87 for 1987 lower left, exhibited in the winter lounge.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born, raised and educated in Kingston, Jamaica, Dr. Veda Moses-Kahnert moved to England to study at the University of Manchester. Then she came to America to study social psychology at Hunter College in New York. She returned to Europe to obtain her doctorate at the Sorbonne in Paris, doing research with a group of delinquent girls at the Salpêtrière psychiatric hospital in Paris. A member of various art organizations, she has worked with psychotics at the Institut Marcel Rivière near Paris using art as a therapeutic approach and as a research tool concerning the psychodynamics of art therapy.
Dr. Moses-Kahnert lived in France.
The long list of countries visited by Madame Veda Moses Kahnert that inspired her work;
Jamaica, United States, Mexico, Greece, Ireland, Alaska, Canada, Majorca, Egypt, Norway, Australia, ….
Self-taught painter of expressionist influence, the oldest work listed is from 1958 and for the most recent 2008; the whole is about landscapes and seasides.

“Veda Moses Kahnert Marked by her native Jamaica, Veda Moses Kahnert is in search, wherever she goes, of a thrill of soul and at the same time of a certain gravity.
Indeed, his evocations of sites like "Delphi in Greece" for example, are heart-to-heart with the natural element in its grandeur and aridity..."
Source: Excerpt from Modern Illustrated Journal of Arts and Life - 1975.

Exhibitions
Mona Lisa Gallery
Galerie Marcel Bernheim March – April 1980
The French Assembly for cultural and artistic exchanges with Europe 1980 and 1990
Mileston Gallery Washington 1982
The Superindependents April – May 1983
Makart Gallery Washington October – November 1984
Notre Dame Gallery Paris April 1986
International Federation Trade Industry Economy diploma silver pallet 1986 and gold pallet 1988
The Deauville Gallery July – August 1990
Salon des Independants 1993
The French Assembly for cultural and artistic exchanges with Europe 1980 and 1990.
Salon of the grand prize of distinctions 1995.
winter lounge,
Incomplete list

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