Louverture Poisson (1914-1985) 14"x11" Village Scene c1960 Oil on Canvas Unframed Painting #1RS Artists/Hector Georges Paul humorous paintings of life's vices

humorous paintings of life's vices

Working as an agricultural superintendent overseeing a ficus plantation

annotated 'ap' and numbered in Arabic

This striking painting by Haitian artist Gérard Valcin depicts a vibrant Vodou ceremony set in a lush tropical landscape

their round eyes fixed outward against a deep black background

Louverture Poisson (1914-1985) 14"x11" Village Scene c1960 Oil on Canvas Unframed Painting #1RS Artists/Hector Georges Paul humorous paintings of life's vicesThis 1960's oil on canvas by Louverture Poisson captures a quiet moment of daily life in rural Haiti. A woman in pink cradles a goat in the foreground while another figure in white stands nearby holding a long pole beneath a tree, and a woman in a red head wrap looks on from the doorway of a thatched roof home. Poisson's meticulous attention to light and detail, from the dappled shadows on the packed earth to the texture of the surrounding foliage,