Paul Poiret was born on April 20th, 1879 to a cloth merchant in the neighborhood of Les Halles, Paris. When Poiret was a teenager he took some of his sketches to Madame Cheruit, a dressmaker, who purchased a dozen from him. He continued to sell his sketches until he was hired by Jacques Doucet in 189
Have been drawing, painting and writing since i was a small child. Privately I study the arts of the classical painters, and I use this knowledge to create my own expression. My paintings are constantly in development as my personal style and way of expression gets more and more personal. I paint
My paintings can be seen as symbolic, since the symbol is my pictorial language par excellence. The symbol suggests, not expressed, and therefore allows the viewer’s interaction with the work.