Signed on lower left corner Paradis 82. j.Depicts a leopard resting on a tree within a grassy field.No frameApproximately 24 x 30 inches,BRANKO Paradis signed oil painting, oil painting, wall art, canvas art, native art, native artist, signed artwork, framed art, fine art, wild animal art, crane art. 12 Art wall Branko Paradis, American oil painter, was born in Zagreb, Croatia, in 1942, during WW2. Childhood coexisted with fierce hunger and Communist tyrant rule. By age eleven, or so, Paradis had already begun making his pictures. He discovered he was able to trade his share of family food for colors and pencils, or whatever neighbors had to offer his pictures. With a young, but firm knowing within. the boy Paradis had already decided that this was how he wanted to spend all his time and days, one after another—making pictures. The young artist did this work every day. This was to become the work for his life. He never studied art, and was never introduced to historical precepts of modern art. It came to be, known, as other artists in the Balkans, as a Self-taught working specifically in the Naive genre.