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Mathieu St Juste - Biography and Works for Sale Mathieu St Juste ( Haitian, born 1946 ) Discover More: Explore Our Curated Showcase or Browse Our Full Haitian Art Gallery Previous Next Mathieu St Juste is born in 1946 . He belongs to the Saint Soleil School. Famous Works Click on painting for purchasing information View More

Louisiana Lubin - Biography and Works for Sale Louisiana Lubin ( Haitian, ) Discover More: Explore Our Curated Showcase or Browse Our Full Haitian Art Gallery Previous Next Famous Works Click on painting for purchasing information View More

Lionel Paul (ONEL) - Biography and Works for Sale Lionel Paul (ONEL) ( Haitian, born 1966 ) Discover More: Explore Our Curated Showcase or Browse Our Full Haitian Art Gallery Previous Next Born on March 2, 1966 in Soissons la Montagne, belongs to the younger generation of the Saint Soleil movement. At 6 years old, he was introduced to the arts in the small school run by Lucienne Fermathe Simeus, wife of Levoy Exile. This facility was supported by Tiga Art Materials and Maud Robart. In 1973, Onel became an apprentice in the workshop of Exile Levoy, who encouraged him to develop his artistic talents. In 1989, under the leadership of Tiga and having grown up in the sphere of his aunt seamstress, he began moving towards recycling textile art that expanded with the use of sawdust and gluing objects. Onel is one of the few artists who stand out from traditional modes of figurative Movement Saint-Soleil to provide innovative figural forms. He is the initiator of this process which was later adopted by the artists Prospero Eriveaux, Ery Stivenson, and Magloire. Famous Works Click on painting for purchasing information View More

Lionel Saint Eloi - Biography and Works for Sale Lionel Saint Eloi ( Haitian, born 1950 ) Discover More: Explore Our Curated Showcase or Browse Our Full Haitian Art Gallery Previous Next St. Eloi was born in 1950 in Port-au-Prince. He began painting in1972, at which time he joined the Centre d’Art. He is a product of the art movement known as "Poto-Mitan" where he painted, played music and danced. In the 1990s he moved more toward sculpture using aluminum and found materials. He is one of the more eccentric and interesting Haitian artists. Permanent Collections Musée d’Art Haitien Ramapo College (NJ) The New Orleans Museum of Art Published in Where Art is Joy (Rodman, 1988) Haiti: Actualities and Belief (Roche, 1990) Island on Fire (Demme, 1997). Famous Works Click on painting for purchasing information View More

Gérard Fortuné - Biography and Works for Sale Gérard Fortuné ( Haitian, 1924 - 2019 ) Discover More: Explore Our Curated Showcase or Browse Our Full Haitian Art Gallery Previous Next Gerard Fortuné was born on May 2nd in the early 1925 in the Montagne Noire neighborhood above Petionville, Haiti. His mother sold vegetables and his father was in the local police force. As a child he recalls working in his mother’s garden. In the 1970s he did domestic work, including cooking, in the houses of the elite of Petionville and as a pastry chef there. He began to paint in the early 1980's. He is completely self-taught. His paintings found a receptive audience among diplomats, journalists and other expatriates in Port-au-Prince, and soon he was taken on by the legendary gallery-owner Issa el-Saieh. Other art dealers and promoters followed. Exhibitions 2012 Kafou: Haiti, Art and Vodou. Nottingham Contemporary. Permanent Collections Ramapo College, New Jersey The Waterloo Museum of Art, Iowa The Huntington Museum of Art, West Virginia The Frost Art Museum, Miami Florida Published in Selden Rodman. Rodman, Where Art is Joy , 1988 Dialogue du Réel et de L’imaginaire (1990) Island on Fire (Demme, 1997) Monnin, Gael and Pascale Monnin,2014, Gerard Fortuné, Petioinville, Collection Monnin May 1990 issue of Art & Antiques magazine Farquharson, Alex and Leah Gordon Kafou: Haiti, Art and Vodou. 2012. Nottingham Contemporary. Nottingham, England. 2000. Haiti, anges & demons. Paris: Le Halle Saint-Pierre Famous Works Click on painting for purchasing information View More

Gélin Buteau - Biography and Works for Sale Gélin Buteau ( Haitian, 1954 - 2000 ) Discover More: Explore Our Curated Showcase or Browse Our Full Haitian Art Gallery Previous Next Gelin Bureau was born in May 20, 1954, in the village of Coteau, near Cayes in the south of Haiti. His mother was a farmer and his father a cabinet-maker. Buteau remained in school until the age of 20, when he joined his father in the cabinet-making business. He also worked on a fishing boat. He began to paint at about this time, encouraged by a cousin who was a painter. He also worked as a fisherman and in a factory in Port-au-Prince until it was shut down during the embargo of the early 1990s. This led to his focusing on painting anew, with the encouragement of Galerie Bourbon-Lally, among others. Gelin Buteau passed away in July of 2000. Exhibits: "Error and Eros: Love Sacred and Profane," American Visionary Art Museum (1998) Published in: Artistes en Haiti: Cent Parmi d'Autres (1997) 2000. Haiti, anges & demons. Paris: Le Halle Saint-Pierre Famous Works Click on painting for purchasing information View More

Jacques Enguerrand Gourgue - Biography and Works for Sale Jacques Enguerrand Gourgue ( Haitian, 1930 - 1996 ) Discover More: Explore Our Curated Showcase or Browse Our Full Haitian Art Gallery Previous Next Jacques-EnguerrandGourgue was born in Port-au-Prince in 1931.He was the son of a French psychiatrist and a Haitian mambo or voodoo priestess. He began painting when barely out of primary school, and quickly achieved world-renowned status. Gourgue's mother is said to have been a mambo, or priestess of voudou. Having had a turbulent and troubled childhood, he turned to painting and joined the Centre d'Art in 1947, when he was 17.Gourgue lived in Spain with a Spanish wife and daughter. At the age of 17, his work was exhibited in the Museum of Modern art in New York; his painting "The Magic Table" is in the Museum's permanent collection. In 1949, at the age of 18, he won the Gold Medal at the exposition for the Port-au-Prince Bicentennial. Throughout most of the latter half of the twentieth century his work has been almost continuously exhibited in prestigious shows in Europe, North America, and Latin America, including important sales at the New York fine art auction houses Sotheby’s and Christies. He adopted his own style of painting, instantly distinguishable, featuring the Haitian mountains, skeletal trees, peasants and their huts, and vodou symbolism in an almost surrealistic manner. Gourgue died in 1996 Exhibitions: 1948 Museum of Modern Art, New York 2012Kafou: Haiti, Art and Vodou. Nottingham Contemporary Permanent Collections: Museum of Modern Art, New York ("The Magic Table") Published in: Nadal, Marie-Jose and Gerald Bloncourt. 1986. La PeintureHaitienne, Haitian Arts. Paris: Editions Nathan Haitian Art (Ute Stebich, 1978) Farquharson, Alex and Leah Gordon. Kafou: Haiti, Art and Vodou. 2012. Nottingham Contemporary. Nottingham, England. Famous Works Click on painting for purchasing information View More

Jacques Gabriel - Biography and Works for Sale Jacques Gabriel ( Haitian, 1934 - 1991 ) Discover More: Explore Our Curated Showcase or Browse Our Full Haitian Art Gallery Previous Next Jacques Gabriel was born in Ouanaminthe (Haiti) October 12, 1934. He was introduced to drawing by photographer and artist René Vincent, then a professor at the Lycee Philippe Guerrier of Cap-Haitien. He created the pseudonym Jagal to sign his drawings in pencil and watercolors. Jacques Gabriel moved permanently to Port-au-Prince in January 1967. From 1967 to 1969 he joined the Faculty of Law and Economics (eSDS) of the State University of Haiti (UEH) while also studying accounting at the School of American Commerce. He chose to discontinue there in order to begin studying Civil Engineering at the Faculty of Sciences (FDS) in October 1969. He also audited courses in aesthetics and freehand drawing at the Academy of Fine Arts and the current National School of Arts (ENARTS). Jacques graduated in Civil Engineering in July 1973. In 1975, he joined the Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Communications (MTPTC) as Engineer of Roads Service and rose through the ranks to the position of Chief Executive Officer (1995-2001), then Minister (September 2008 to October 2011). He earned his Master’s in Venezuela at the University of Los Andes (ULA) in Merida Transportation engineering. Published in Nadal, Marie-Jose and Gerald Bloncourt. 1986. La Peinture Haitienne, Haitian Arts. Paris: Editions Nathan Collections Museum of Modern Art, Paris (Transparencies) Famous Works Click on painting for purchasing information View More

Gérard Paul - Biography and Works for Sale Gérard Paul ( Haitian, born 1943 ) Discover More: Explore Our Curated Showcase or Browse Our Full Haitian Art Gallery Previous Next Gerard Paul was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on October 9, 1943. By the time he was six years old, both of his parents had died and he was raised, in meager circumstances, by his godmother. By age 14 he was apprenticed to a carpenter and then to a bricklayer but finally he became a house painter. At the end of 1963 he went to work as a houseboy at the German Embassy in Port-au-Prince. Soon after, he did his first painting and showed it to the wife of the Ambassador, Mdme. Malsy-Minsk. Eventually he took his paintings to the Galerie Monnin, with which he was associated in 1973, and rapidly became a favorite of collectors worldwide. He won first prize in the “Masters of the Dew” painting competition in 1978. In the early 1980's Gerard Paul moved to the United States where he eventually stopped painting altogether. Exhibitions 1972 Seraphine Gallery, Paris Published in Nadal, Marie-Jose and Gerald Bloncourt. 1986. La Peinture Haitienne, Haitian Arts. Paris: Editions Nathan Famous Works Click on painting for purchasing information View More

Jacques Richard Chery - Biography and Works for Sale Jacques Richard Chery ( Haitian, born 1928 ) Discover More: Explore Our Curated Showcase or Browse Our Full Haitian Art Gallery Previous Next Jacques-Richard Chery was born in Cap-Haitian on February 2, 1929. Chery started painting while working as a barber. He opened a gas station in the Artibonite Valley and exhibited his art at his place of work. On the advice of his friend Philome Obin, he moved to Port-au-Prince in 1951. He stayed there for one year, returning to the Art Center in Port-au-Prince ten years later. In 1965, he entered the Galerie Issa, where he painted for several years. His works were often reproduced in magazines (Time, Vogue), as well as in art books. He exhibited in London (1969), Spoleto (1970), Modena (1981), New York, Milwaukee, Berlin (1979), Paris (1980, 1988, & 1990). His paintings have been sold through Sotheby’s Auction House in New York. His earlier works were representative of the Northern School. Published in Nadal, Marie-Jose and Gerald Bloncourt. 1986. La Peinture Haitienne, Haitian Arts. Paris: Editions Nathan Alexis Gerald Peintres Haitiens Editions Cercle d’Art Paris 2000 Famous Works Click on painting for purchasing information View More

Jasmin Joseph - Biography and Works for Sale Jasmin Joseph ( Haitian, 1924 - 2005 ) Discover More: Explore Our Curated Showcase or Browse Our Full Haitian Art Gallery Previous Next Jasmin Joseph, born 23 November 1923, in Grande Riviere in northern Haiti, was working in a brick factory and sculpting in clay when his work was noticed by American sculptor Jason Seeley an American sculptor who partnered with Dewitt Peters – a watercolorist — to establish the Centre D’Art in Port-au-Prince. Encouraged by Seeley, he joined the Centre d' Art in 1948 where he practiced sculpture and painting. In the early 1950s he contributed to a mural depicting "The Stations of the Cross" and created a choir screen of open-sculpted terra cotta for the Episcopal Cathedral of Ste Trinité. [Destroyed in the earthquake of January 2010.] He abandoned sculpture after finding that unauthorized molds had been made of some of his terra cotta work and copies were being sold to profit the thief. He painted exclusively after that. Jasmin Joseph died in 2005. Permanent Collections: Waterloo Center for the Arts, Waterloo, Iowa Musée d'Art Haitien du College Saint Pierre, Port-au-Prince The Davenport Museum of Art, Iowa Milwaukee Museum of Art The Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, Connecticut New Orleans Museum of Art. Published in: [na]. The Naive Tradition: Haiti . Milwaukee Art Center, 1974. Demme, Jonathan. Island on Fire . Kaliko Press, 1997. Material Culture. Direct From The Eye: The Jonathan Demme Collection of Self-Taught Art . Philadelphia, 2014. Rodman, Selden. The Miracle of Haitian Art . New York, 1974. -. Where Art is Joy . New York, 1988. Stebich, Ute. Haitian Art . The Brooklyn Museum, 1978. -. A Haitian Celebration . Milwaukee Art Museum, 1992. Nadal, Marie-Jose and Gerald Bloncourt. 1986. La Peinture Haitienne, Haitian Arts. Paris: Editions Nathan Famous Works Click on painting for purchasing information View More

Jean René Jérome - Biography and Works for Sale Jean René Jérome ( Haitian, 1942 - 1991 ) Discover More: Explore Our Curated Showcase or Browse Our Full Haitian Art Gallery Previous Next Jerome was born in Petit-Goave on March, 1942. Jean-Rene's family belonged to the elite of Haitian society, which enabled him to become an actor, singer and a dancer. He moved to Port-au-Prince where he attended the "Petit Seminaire College Saint Martial" and later the "College Moderne." He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Port-au-Prince. In 1963, he became a "regular" at the Brochette Galerie. Two years later in 1965, he won first prize in the Esso Salon Competition. In1968, he decided to devote himself entirely to painting and opened a studio in Port-Au-Prince. In 1970, he visited the USA; a year later he returned to the USA and stayed there for four months, studying and working with Bernard Sejourne’. From 1973 to 1975 he taught fine arts at the school of Fine Arts in Port-au-Prince. He founded the School of Beauty with B. Sejourne’, Legagneur and Dodard. In 1985, he founded the "Ateliers Jerome" where his own paintings and the work of other artists are exhibited. Jerome belongs to the School of Beauty Jean Rene Jerome died suddenly in 1991. Published in Nadal, Marie-Jose and Gerald Bloncourt. 1986. La Peinture Haitienne, Haitian Arts. Paris: Editions Nathan Alexis Gerald Peintres Haitiens Editions Cercle d’Art Paris 2000 Famous Works Click on painting for purchasing information View More