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Micius Stephane - Biography and Works for Sale Micius Stephane ( Haitian, 1912 – 1996 ) Discover More: Explore Our Curated Showcase or Browse Our Full Haitian Art Gallery Previous Next Micius Stephane was born in 1912 in Bainet, on the Caribbean coast of Haiti. He worked as a cobbler and amateur sculptor. He joined the Centre d'Art in 1946 at the encouragement of DeWitt Peters, subsequently moving to Port-au-Prince in 1956. Between 1961 and 1979, Stephane exhibited in the U.S. and Europe. He is credited with having brought Edger Jean-Baptiste to the Centre d’Art. His son, Peters Stephane, and his daughter, Edith Stephane, are also painters. Stephane passed away in 1996. Permanent Collections Musée d’Art Haitien du College Saint Pierre in Port-au-Prince The Milwaukee Museum of Art The Detroit Institute of Art Published in Danticat, Edwige, and Jonathan Demme. Island on Fire . New York: Kaliko Press, 1995 Where Art is Joy (Rodman, 1988) Haitian Art (Ute Stebich, 1978). 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

Sisson Blanchard - Biography and Works for Sale Sisson Blanchard ( Haitian, 1926 - 1981 ) Discover More: Explore Our Curated Showcase or Browse Our Full Haitian Art Gallery Previous Next Sisson Blanchard was born in 1929 in the southern Haitian village of Trouin, a small village in the mountains of southern Haiti. He came to Port-au-Prince as a young man and got a job as a yardboy in the house of Joel and Ethel Kenter (friends of DeWitt Peters), who owned the Hotel Mon Reve on the Champs de Mars. He began painting in 1948, with the encouragement of the American sculptor Jason Seley and DeWitt Peters. Blanchard's paintings were first shown at the Centre d'Art, and have since been exhibited all over the world. His son, Smith Blanchard also became a prominent Haitian painter. Sisson Blanchard died in 1981. Permanent Collections The Davenport Museum of Art The Waterloo Museum of Art, in Iowa. Published in Eleanor Ingalls Christensen in her 1975 book, The Art of Haiti Island on Fire Famous Works Click on painting for purchasing information View More

Germilia Dufaut (YAYA) - Biography and Works for Sale Germilia Dufaut (YAYA) ( Haitian, born 1938 ) 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

Luckner Lazard - Biography and Works for Sale Luckner Lazard ( Haitian, 1928 - 1998 ) Discover More: Explore Our Curated Showcase or Browse Our Full Haitian Art Gallery Previous Next Luckner Lazard was born in Port-au-Prince on July 7, 1928. From 1945 to 1950, Lazard studied painting and sculpture at the Centre d’ Art. There he studied painting and sculpture under Dewitt Peters, Borno and Mangones. He exhibited in 1945 in Havana, Cuba and also participated in 1946 at the group exhibit held by "Unesco" at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris. In 1950 he founded the Foyer des Arts Plastiques with Cedor, Price etc. A year later, in 1951, he received a scholarship and moved to Paris where he studied for two years. In 1953, he moved back to Haiti. From 1953 to 1956 he exhibited at the French Institute in Mexico, the Zegri Gallery in New York and the Condado Beach Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Luckner is the founder of the "Brochette" Gallery in 1956 with Dieudonne Cedor, Nehemy Jean and Roland Dorcely. He emigrated from Haiti in 1967 to the USA. Luckner Lazard died in 1998. Exhibitions 1976 Paul Robeson Multimedia Center, Washington, D.C. 1979 Eaton Hall of Arts, Montreal 1978 The French Institute, Haiti Published 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

Reynald Joseph - Biography and Works for Sale Reynald Joseph ( Haitian, born 1973 ) Discover More: Explore Our Curated Showcase or Browse Our Full Haitian Art Gallery Previous Next Reynald Joseph was born in Port-au-Prince on July 4, 1973. By the age of thirteen Reynald was using his talent as an artist to earn money for school and books. He left school in 1986. He studied with Wilfrid Louis, which he considers as his spiritual father. At the age of sixteen he participated in a collective exhibition in Mexico. "Using Carlo Jean-Jacques' style, Joseph uses sinuous forms to suggest the intense emotions of the present moment," says art critic Gerald Alexis in his book Peintres Haitiens. 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

Castera Bazile - Biography and Works for Sale Castera Bazile ( Haitian, 1923 - 1966 ) Discover More: Explore Our Curated Showcase or Browse Our Full Haitian Art Gallery Previous Next He began to paint in 1945 and in 1950-51 was one of the five painters selected to paint the landmark murals in the Trinity Episcopalian church. He executed three murals in the now ruined Episcopal Cathedral of Sainte Trinite’ in Port-au-Prince, The Ascension of Christ, The Baptism of Christ, and Christ Expelling the Money Changers from the Temple. In 1955 he won the grand prize in the Caribbean International Art Competition sponsored by Alcoa and in 1957 received $1000, an impressive sum, as the grand prize winner of an art contest sponsored by Holiday Magazine. Famous Works Click on painting for purchasing information View More

Maxan Jean-Louis - Biography and Works for Sale Maxan Jean-Louis ( Haitian, born 1966 ) Discover More: Explore Our Curated Showcase or Browse Our Full Haitian Art Gallery Previous Next Maxan Jean-Louis has been painting since 1992. He has two different styles of painting. One is political painting and the other one is from the school of Saint Soleil. " I paint political problems since I don’t have a voice to talk about it. So I speak through my paintings where I can express myself freely. Also, painting is what I do for my work—to help me raise my children and to take care of my family and myself." He exhibited at the French Embassy in 2005, then at the French Institute in 2005 and 2008, and another exhibition at Alliance Françoise in Jacmel, Haiti, 2011. Famous Works Click on painting for purchasing information View More

Madsen Monpremier - Biography and Works for Sale Madsen Monpremier ( Haitian, born 1952 ) Discover More: Explore Our Curated Showcase or Browse Our Full Haitian Art Gallery Previous Next Madsen Mompremier was born in Gonaives, Haiti on August 12, 1952. He was married to Erzulien, a community worker who later became an artist. In 1972, Madsen Mompremier came to Port-au-Prince, where he worked as a tailor. In 1973 he started to paint as a student of Gerard Valcin. Originally, Mompremier painted delightful scenes of everyday Haitian life, peasants in their villages and cane fields. Around 1975 he found a style which he has now been refining for more than thirty years; painting Voudou Gods with great majesty and precision. Since 1979, he has exhibited his work in Italy, France and the United States. In 1982 he had two shows at the Haitian Art Co. - one of his own work and one featuring a sculpture collaboration with Nacius Joseph. Mompremier lives in Florida. Exhibits 2012 Kafou: Haiti, Art and Vodou. Nottingham Contemporary Permanent Collections Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas Published in Farquharson, Alex and Leah Gordon Kafou: Haiti, Art and Vodou. 2012. Nottingham Contemporary. Nottingham, England. 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

Camy Rocher - Biography and Works for Sale Camy Rocher ( Haitian, 1959 - 1981 ) Discover More: Explore Our Curated Showcase or Browse Our Full Haitian Art Gallery Previous Next Rocher began to paint at the age of 12 or 13 under the patronage of the renowned artist Calixte Henry, who supplied him with brushes and paints. He was inspired by the paintings in the gallery. His studies at the Art Center began in 1978. In 1978 he was included in the show, "Five Vodou Artists" at the Institute Francais in Port-au-Prince. In early 1981 Camy lived near the sea in the Carrefour neighborhood of Port-au-Prince. While preparing a solo show for the Galerie Monnin he disappeared when swimming. His drowned body was recovered the next day by Michel Monnin who had gone to the scene. Famous Works Click on painting for purchasing information View More

Alix Roy - Biography and Works for Sale Alix Roy ( Haitian, 1930 - 2010 ) Discover More: Explore Our Curated Showcase or Browse Our Full Haitian Art Gallery Previous Next Alix Roy was born in 1930 in Port-au-Prince. He studied at St. Louis de Gonzague and the Louis Hall Institute. Noted artists Luce Turnier, Maurice Borno and Lucien Price tutored him. Later he became a draftsman for UNICEF in Haiti. In 1956 he received a scholarship to further his art studies in the United States and traveled to New York to work on perfecting his painting technique. His works often portrayed children in playful scenarios, capturing the essence of Haitian childhood with humor and irony. He returned to Haiti in 1978 and settled in Leogane . Published in: Nadal, Marie-Jose and Gerald Bloncourt Haitian Arts. 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