While surfing the net today I came across a strange link which associates Miguel de la Espriella (”Noble”), the Colombian painter with Gabriel Garcia Marquez and “Le Douanier” Rousseau.

What relationship could there possibly be between them you say?

“Love in the Time of Cholera“. . . is the answer!

Now the first link may not seem so strange if you know that the artwork of “Noble” was initially derived from the Macondian world of Garcia Marquez and that “Gabo” actually knows of “Noble´s” artwork and has even written about it. Not so strange given that both are Colombians from the Colombian coast. But I am not so sure that many except perhaps the most perceptive would immediately associate “Noble” with Rousseau – but as you may see, the people at Awards Daily are a very investigative and perceptive bunch of souls.

Miguel de la Espriella and Henri Rousseau

Both Noble and Rousseau are self-taught artists and both started out professionally at a late age: Noble was in his mid to late thirties and Rousseau had probably already hit his forties.