Lot Essay
THIS CEREMONY IS AN IMPORTANT ANNUAL SERVICE FOR THE LOA OF THE SEA.
Details
GERARD VALCIN
Ceremonie pour Agoue
signed and dated Gerard Valcin 28/4/73 lower left, inscribed Cueta-Debague-Bac mid center--oil on canvas
44 1/8 x 44 1/8in. (112 x 112cm.)
Painted in 1973
Ceremonie pour Agoue
signed and dated Gerard Valcin 28/4/73 lower left, inscribed Cueta-Debague-Bac mid center--oil on canvas
44 1/8 x 44 1/8in. (112 x 112cm.)
Painted in 1973
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist
Literature
L. Bortolon, COPRIAMO I NAIFS DI HAITI, GRAZIA NO. 1722, (FEB., 1974), P.79 (ILLUSTRATED)
Exhibited
New York, New York Cultural Center, American Federation of Arts, Haitian Painting: The Naive Tradition, 1973, no. 54 (illustrated). This exhibition later traveled throughout the United States, Canada and Haiti.
Allentown, Allentown Art Museum, Three generations of Haitian Art, 1982, catalogue No. 65
Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Where Art is Joy, 1989, (illustrated in color)
Allentown, Allentown Art Museum, Three generations of Haitian Art, 1982, catalogue No. 65
Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Where Art is Joy, 1989, (illustrated in color)