Felix Lafortune

LaFortune was born in Pont Sonde, Haiti in 1933. His parents were farmers.  Lafortune worked in agriculture until 1958, when he was initiated as a houngan and decorated the outside of his Temple with images of the Lwa.

He began formal painting in 1972 upon being given painting materials such as masonite by Pierre Monosiet, Director of the Museum of Haitian Art at the College of St. Pierre.

He signed his early paintings "Pont Sonde" and his later ones "St. Marc," where he lives now.

Exhibits

2012 Kafou: Haiti, Art and Vodou. Nottingham Contemporary

Published in

1982 book by Seldon Rodman, "Where Art Is Joy"

“Where Art is Joy: The First Forty Years of Haitian Art” (1988) by Selden Rodman.

“Haitian Art: The Legend and Legacy of the Naive Tradition” (1985) by L.G. Hoffman.

“Haiti: Anges & Demons” (2000), written in French

Farquharson, Alex and Leah Gordon Kafou: Haiti, Art and Vodou.  2012. Nottingham Contemporary. Nottingham, England.

2000. Haiti, anges & demons. Paris: Le Halle Saint-Pierre