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

Saint Jean Saint Juste - Biography and Works for Sale Saint Jean Saint Juste ( Haitian, 1954 - 2017 ) 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

Toussaint St Pierre - Biography and Works for Sale Toussaint St Pierre ( Haitian, 1923 - 1985 ) Discover More: Explore Our Curated Showcase or Browse Our Full Haitian Art Gallery Previous Next Toussaint St Pierre was born in 1923 and lived in Planton-Café, a small hamlet near Kenscoff, the well-to-do district, 1500 meters above Port au Prince. His career as a painter began in the summer of 1968/1972. A summer visitor had left him his amateur painter's kit, and Saint-Pierre Toussaint started using it. He was influenced by Michele Manuel (1935), a female Haitian artist working in the mountains near Kenscoff. He died in 1985 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

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

Dieudonne Cedor - Biography and Works for Sale Dieudonne Cedor ( Haitian, 1925 - 2010 ) Discover More: Explore Our Curated Showcase or Browse Our Full Haitian Art Gallery Previous Next He joined the Centre d' Art in December 1947. At the "Centre d' Art," he worked under the supervision of Rigaud Benoit who thought him the elementary principals of pictorial art. He became a teacher the following year. Dewitt Peters, founder of Centre d' Art, made him chief of the studio. Later he became a member/founder of the "Foyer des Arts Plastiques" In 1957, he was named director of the museum of Beaux-Arts of Port au Prince. In 1953, Cedor received the Labor Department Exhibition Prize and in 1957, the Grand Work Prize of the Haitian Office of Tourism. He exhibited globally. Famous Works Click on painting for purchasing information View More

Seymour (S. E.) Bottex - Biography and Works for Sale Seymour (S. E.) Bottex ( Haitian, 1922 - 2016 ) Discover More: Explore Our Curated Showcase or Browse Our Full Haitian Art Gallery Previous Next Seymour Bottex was born in Port Margot, near Cap-Haitian, on Christmas day, 1920. Bottex began his artistic career in 1955, encouraged by his older brother, artist Jean Baptiste Bottex. In 1961 Bottex joined the Centre d'Art. He painted in the atelier of the Gallerie Issa. Published in Herbert Gold explains in his book, Haiti: Best Nightmare of Earth Nadal, Marie-Jose and Gerald Bloncourt. 1986. La Peinture Haitienne, Haitian Arts. Paris: Editions Nathan Exhibitions 2012 Haitian Art : Old Masters and New Visions, Indigo Art Gallery, Philadelphia 2005 Rencontres et Retrouvailles dans l’art Naïfs : Brazil – Haiti Famous Works Click on painting for purchasing information View More

Pierre Joseph Valcin - Biography and Works for Sale Pierre Joseph Valcin ( Haitian, 1925 - 2000 ) Discover More: Explore Our Curated Showcase or Browse Our Full Haitian Art Gallery Previous Next Pierre-Joseph Valcin (sometimes listed as Pierre Joseph) was born in Port-au-Prince in 1925-7 (exact year unknown). His father was a bus driver and his mother a seamstress. Valcin was raised by the mother of painter Gerard Valcin. He worked as a mechanic, a stone mason, and a plumber before becoming a painter. Valcin began to paint after he was introduced to the Centre d’Art by his half-brother, the late painter Gerard Valcin, in 1959. He joined the center in 1966. Gerard Valcin instructed Pierre-Joseph for his first year at the Centre d’Art. He is the father of painters Favrance Valcin and 'Valcin II.' Valcin is considered one of the most significant of Haiti's second generation painters. Permanent Collections Musée d’Art Haitien du College Saint Pierre in Port-au-Prince The Davenport Museum of Art, Iowa The Waterloo Museum of Art, Iowa The New Orleans Museum of Art Published in Nadal, Marie-Jose and Gerald Bloncourt. 1986. La Peinture Haitienne, Haitian Arts. Paris: Editions Nathan Art Naif, Art Vodou (1988) Dialogue du Réel et de l’Imaginaire (1990) Haiti: Actualities and Belief (Roche, 1990) Island on Fire (Demme, 1997). Stebich, Ute. A Haitian Celebration: Art and Culture. Milwaukee: Milwaukee Art Museum, 1992 Alexis, Gerard 2000 Peintres Haitiens Paris Editions Cercle d’Art Famous Works Click on painting for purchasing information View More

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

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

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Emilcar Similien, (Simil) - Biography and Works for Sale Emilcar Similien, (Simil) ( Haitian, born 1944 ) Discover More: Explore Our Curated Showcase or Browse Our Full Haitian Art Gallery Previous Next Simil was born Emilcar Similien in St. Marc, Haiti on August 28, 1944. He completed his primary school studies at Frere Herve, the Christian Brothers School in St. Marc, in 1958, and continued his education at the Lycee Toussaint Louverture in Port-au-Prince. In 1965, he entered the Academie des Beaux Arts in Port-au-Prince to study sculpture and painting. According to his longtime friend and dealer, Michel Monnin, at this time that Simil began a deep dialogue with Professor Montaguelli who besides teaching him art, also imparted to him “a certain attitude toward art; constancy of effort and the research necessary to find beauty." In his fifth year at the Academy, Simil became an assistant professor, teaching courses in Art History. He also worked with Georges Hector at "Coumbite 67." Around this time he created a seven foot marble sculpture of Christ which was placed at the sacred vodou site, Saut-d'eau, with a commemorative plaque. Simil is an avant-garde intellectual who is interested in many things; He is an accomplished musician; he plays the violin and the slide trombone. He is a founding member of the National Association of Haitian Artists (ANAH) founded in 1977. 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