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Montas Antoine

Montas Antoine

A member of the "First Generation" of Haitian artists, Montas Antoine was born in Leogane on December 14, 1926. He joined the famous Centre d'Art in 1951, while still serving as a soldier in the Haitian army. He turned to painting full-time in 1960. One of the great Haitian intuitive painters, Antoine's work has been exhibited widely, and is now included in the permanent collections of the Musee d'Art Haitien du College Saint Pierre in Port-au-Prince, the Milwaukee Museum of Art, the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut, and the New Orleans Museum of Art. His work is represented in the major private collections, including the Demme collection (the catalog of which, Island on Fire provided the biogrophical information above). Antoine's work is included in Where Art is Joy by Selden Rodman, and Haitian Art and Kunst aus Haiti by Ute Stebich, among other works. Montas Antoine died in 1988.



Montas Antoine. (photograph reproduced from Haitian Art: The Legend and Legacy of the Naive Tradition by L.G. Hoffman, Davenport Art Gallery, 1985)


Still Life
Montas Antoine (Port-au-Prince, Haiti)
Oil on board (20 x 16), c.1960

Price on Request (framed)

SOLD 11/2012



Children Playing
Montas Antoine (Port-au-Prince, Haiti)
Oil on canvas (30 x 24), c.1960

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Village Scene
Montas Antoine (Port-au-Prince, Haiti)
Oil on board (24 x 16), c.1960

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SOLD 10/2012

Exhibited at the Noyes Museum Jan through March, 2011



Still Life with Man in Blue Jacket
Montas Antoine (Port-au-Prince, Haiti)
Oil on board (18 x 23 1/2), c.1955
Label on back reads: Art Lending Service of the Museum of Modern Art, NYC.
No: LS 567-450
Gallery: Le Centre d'Art, Haiti
Framed: Dain Schiff, Inc. NYC

Two closely related and contemporary (1955) paintings by Montas Antoine are pictured in Island on Fire: Passionate Images of Haiti from the Collection of Jonathan Demme , 1997, illus. #33, 34. Other related early 1950's works are in the Winslow Anderson collection at the Huntington Museum of Art and the Flagg collection of the Milwaukee Art Museum.

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SOLD 5/2011



Bull Fight
Montas Antoine (Port-au-Prince, Haiti)
Oil on board (22 3/4 x 32), c.1980

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Water Scene
Montas Antoine (Port-au-Prince, Haiti)
Oil on canvas (20 x 16), c.1955

SOLD

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