Biography Alexis De Vilar – Almasi Art Agency

Biography
Alexis De Vilar

Alexis de Vilar was born in Spain in 1948 and began taking photographs since 1964 with a particular emphasis on black and white images. He dreamed of becoming an architect but as a teenager, interaction with a camera changed his path and suddenly his architectural dream was over, he had made up his mind. His works as a writer has conquered some of the best newspapers and magazines around the world, and as a photographer has presented his work in art galleries and museums in Asia, Africa, and the Americas.

During his long career he met and befriended such characters such as Alan Watts, Cypriot president Makarios, Sir James Mancham (president of the Seychelles islands), Frederick Forsyth and Larry Collins (both writers and former war correspondents), Dr. Christiaan Barnard, Glenda Jackson, Michael Chaplin, Luis Buñuel, Arthur C. Clarke, Ivan Illich and Henry Miller, among many other personalities from the worlds of politics, arts, and sciences. author, photographer and explorer.

Over the years, Alexis has visited over thirty countries, and has become a specialist in third world problems, in particular those of Africa and Asia. His work is widely collected and has sold to the King of Belgium, the Late South African President Nelson Mandela among others of great repute.

He currently shows at the Almasi Art Agency’s space in Diani.

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Publications

Swahili Woman 1 Mnemba Zanzibar

Ink on Photograph Paper

60cm x 90cm

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$6,000.00

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Fishermen, Zanzibar

Ink on Photograph Paper

60cm x 90cm

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$2,500.00

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Model on Canvas

Ink on Photograph Paper

60cm x 90cm

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$2,500.00

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Swahili Woman 2 Mnemba Zanzibar

Ink on Photograph Paper

60cm x 90cm

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$2,500.00

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Samburu Woman

Ink on Photograph Paper

180cm x 120cm

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$3,000.00

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Maasai Moran

Ink on Photograph Paper

60 x 90cm

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$2,500.00

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Maasai initiation

Ink on Photograph Paper

180cm x 120cm

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$3,000.00

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Samburu Moran

Ink on Photograph Paper

60 x 90cm

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$3,000.00

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Desert Near Timbuktu - Mali

Ink on Photograph Paper

180cm x 120cm

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$3,000.00

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Tuareg Near Timbuktu - Mali

Ink on Photograph Paper

180cm x 120cm

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$3,000.00

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Arabic Island

Ink on Organic Matte Paper

24cm x 30cm 160 pages

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$3,000.00

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