Haiti Gérard Fortuné / Painting - Naive Art / Haitian School / Voodoo

Very beautiful acrylic on fabric Woman seated The canvas measures 60.5 X 50.7 cm Good condition see photos The painting is signed Gérarard for Gérard Original work by Fortuné Gérard (1925-2019) Haitian voodoo painter Very careful shipping Reduced shipping costs for group shipments Contact fredericchavanne@hotmail.com 06 62 70 08 91 Gérard Fortuné (1925, Montagne-Noire, Pétion-Ville - December 8, 2019, Montagne-Noire), is a Haitian voodoo painter. Biography Gérard Fortuné was born in 1924, 1925 or 19332 in Montagne-Noire, a district of Pétion-Ville in the suburbs of Port-au-Prince. He paints on recycled materials, as an autodidact and then under the inspiration of André Pierre and Hector Hyppolite. His paintings can be classified into three categories or themes: still lifes and genre scenes, voodoo or Christian religious scenes, and portraits of political figures. Exhibitions 2007, Haitian Voodoo-Inspired Paintings, Musée d'Aquitaine de Bordeaux, Museum of Archaeology, History and Ethnography, from May 10 to November 30, 2007 2014, Solo Exhibition, Galerie Monnin, Laboule, Haiti. 2020, Tribute to Gérard Fortuné, in partnership with Galerie Monnin, Fondation Culture Création, Galerie El-Saieh, Galerie Flamboyant, Le Centre d'Art, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Presence in museums and public collections Huntington Museum of Art Bibliography (en) Selden Rodman, Where Art is Joy. Haitian Art: The First Forty Years, New York, USA, Ruggles de Latour, November 18, 1986 Haitian Voodoo-Inspired Paintings, Bordeaux, Le Festin, 2007 Gael Monnin and Pascale Monnin, Gérard Fortuné, Pétion-ville, Monnin Collection, 2014. Filmography Arnold Antonin, Gérard Fortuné – the Last of the Naive, 2015