Haitian Art - Caribbean Fine Art

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Returning From Market 1980s

Artist:  Calixtes Henri       More by this artist

Category:  Paintings - Rare and Collectible       More in this category

Medium:  Acrylic on Canvas

Description:
A family of farmers return home ready to relax after a day of selling their home grown crops. Calixte Henry was born on January 3, 1933, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and died in 2010. He began to paint at the Art Center in 1955 with the American painter Barbara Obris. Later, he abandoned his brushes in favor of razor blades which lent heightened finesse and transparency to his painting and later painted with a knife. In his paintings, Calixte eliminates all extraneous details to produce a highly refined soberness of line. He obtains volume through the contrast tones. The rudimentary drawing is compensated by a harmony of colors whose contrasts make up its personality. Henry coaxes an infinite spectrum of vibrations from green and blue. He also worked with more pastel colors and less contrasting tones. The rudimentary drawing is compensated by a harmony of elegant colors. Henry received a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation of New York in the 1980s. His works have been widely exhibited in France and in Switzerland as well as in Haiti and the US, and have a world-wide reputation among galleries and collectors. His paintings illustrate scores of books on Haitian art. In 1994 Calixtes biography and images of his paintings were featured in Art & Antiques Magazine.

Year:  1980s

Length:  40
Width:  30
Height:  N/A

Price: $3875.00

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