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Préfète Duffaut
Born(1923-01-01)1 January 1923
Cyvadier, Haiti
Died6 October 2012(2012-10-06) (aged 89)
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
NationalityHaitian
Known forPainting
StyleNaïve
MovementVernacular art

Préfète Duffaut (1 January 1923 – 6 October 2012) was a Haitian painter.

Biography

Born in Cyvadier, Sud-Est, near the seaport of Jacmel, where he lived and worked. The painter Pauleus Vital (1918–1984) was Duffaut's half-brother, the painter Jean Charles Duffaut (*1970) is his son. Duffaut's mother died when he was two years old, and he was mostly raised by his father, a sailboat builder in Jacmel.

In 1944, he introduced himself to Rigaud Benoit who was then visiting Jacmel as a talent scout fro the recently created Centre d'Art of Port-au-Prince. In 1948, encouraged by Bill Kraus - an American journalist and artist living in Haiti, Duffaut joined the Centre d'Art in the Haitian capital. There began working alongside important Haitian artists such as Gesner Abelard and Hector Hyppolite. Later, he joined the Galerie Issa, where he worked for many years.

In 1951, Duffaut was one of several artists invited to paint murals in the interior of the Cathedral of Sainte Trinité (largely destroyed in the January 2010 earthquake) in Port-au-Prince; his works there were titled "The Temptation of Christ" and "The Processional Road" (also referred to as the "Procession of the Crossing Guard").

Sometimes referred to as the foremost "dreamer" of the Haitian artists in modern times, Duffaut is above all a naïve painter. His earlier works portray highly precise depictions of his hometown. Later, he began shifting towards his own style, described as both sophisticated, fantastic and highly imaginative. He is known for painting in the vernacular style and his work typically consists of fantastical "imaginary cities" (villes imaginaires), that often contain coastal elements with boats. The cityscapes are strongly influenced by the coastal city of Jacmel. Another recurrent theme, especially in earlier works, is imagery associated with Vodou.

Duffaut's work has been exhibited and collected widely outside of Haiti. His body of paintings continues to be a strong influence on contemporary Haitian artists such as Prince Luc (Luckner Candio).

References

  1. "Préfète Duffaut, figure majeure de la peinture haïtienne, est mort". lemonde.fr. Retrieved 2012-10-11.
  2. ^ Nadal-Gardère, Marie-José; Bloncourt, Gérald (1986). La Peinture Haïtienne - Haitian Arts (in French and English). Translated by Bell, Elizabeth. Paris: Éditions Nathan. pp. 110–111. ISBN 9782091615011.
  3. Franciscus, John Allen (September 1980). Haiti: Voodoo Kingdom to Modern Riviera (1st ed.). Chicopee, MA: Franciscus Family Foundation Inc. p. 63.
  4. Lundahl, Mats; Saint-Jean, Louis Carl (2012). Issa El Saieh: maëstro and legend: a portrait of my pal, his times and his music. CIDIHCA. Montreal: CIDIHCA Publisher. pp. 231–232. ISBN 978-2-89454-321-4. OCLC 855278534.
  5. ^ Williams, Sheldon (1969). Voodoo and the Art of Haiti. Nottingham: Morland Lee Ltd. p. 74. ISBN 978-0234778159.
  6. Préfète Duffaut Archived 2011-07-25 at the Wayback Machine at the Figge Art Museum.
  7. "Jonathan Demme Collection: Inspiration of Haitian Art, 2009, Alliance Française New York, NY". Archived from the original on 2009-05-22. Retrieved 2009-09-26.
  8. The Richard and Erna Flagg Collection of Haitian Art at the Milwaukee Art Museum.

Further reading

  • Balutansky, Kathleen; Sourieau, Marie-Agnes (2004). Ecrire en Pays Assiege Haiti Writing Under Siege in. New York, NY: Rodopi. p. 433. ISBN 978-90-420-1753-5.
  • Schutt-Ainé, Patricia (1994). Haiti: A Basic Reference Book. Miami, Florida: Librairie Au Service de la Culture. p. 111. ISBN 0-9638599-0-0.
  • Stebich, Ute (1979). Haitian Art. New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. ISBN 978-0-8109-1053-9. - Exhibition catalogue of Haitian Art show at The Brooklyn Museum of Art, 09/02 to 11/05, 1978
  • Michel, Claudine; Bellegarde-Smith, Patrick (1979). Vodou in Haitian Life and Culture: Invisible Powers. Basingstoke, Hampshire UK: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 170. ISBN 978-1-4039-7162-3.

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