Joseph Jean-Laurent

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About the Artist

Joseph Jean-Laurent

JOSEPH JEAN-LAURENT 1893-1976 (CROIX-DES-BOUQUETS, HAITI)
Joseph Jean-Laurent was born in 1893 in Croix-des-Bouquets, a market town on the road to the Dominican border. His father was a successful farmer. He married three times, and had one daughter by his third wife. In adulthood he lived in Grande Rivière du Nord and Port-au-Prince, where he was a tailor and is said to have been a practicing Seventh Day Adventist minister. He began painting at the age of 72 after he had moved back to Croix-des-Bouquets. His third wife, working in a similar style to his, also painted occasionally. Jean-Laurent died on April 26, 1976, two years afer joining the Centre d'Art.
His work is included in the permnent collections of the Hirshorn Museum in Washington, DC, the Milwaukee Museum of Art, and the Waterloo Museum of Art in Iowa.

(bio courtesy of Island on Fire).

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Haiti

Couple Walking on the Road

SKU: JJL-2501

Joseph Jean-Laurent

Haiti

Joseph Jean-Laurent (1893-1976, Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti) c.1960s.
Watercolor on paper (15" x 22"), Framed (dimension approx. 17" x 24")

$2500

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