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Séraphinede Senlis was a self-taught French artist known for her naïve paintings of flora, especially in large-format. She was born as Séraphine Louis and decided to adopt the name of the town “Senlis” as her surname.

Séraphinede Senlis never received a formal artistic education, she forged an idiosyncratic style outside of the stablished artistic traditions searching for inspiration in religious art as the stained-glass church windows and in her own religious faith.

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Sometimes the intensity of the colours and replicative design of her works are interpreted as a reflection of her own psyche, between the ecstasy and mental illness.

She worked as a house keeper, a very arduous job, painting only during her leisure time,most usually at night by a candlelight in secret isolation.

In 1912 her work was discovered by the German art dealer and collector Wilhelm Uhde, who wouldbe her patron, exhibiting her works alongside other so-called Primitive artists as Camille Bombois, A