Atelier of Jean-Baptiste Jean Joseph (not signed) (Croix des Bouquets, Haiti)
Beads on velvet fabric
(30 1/2" x 25 1/2"),
c.2005
This flag is extremely densely beaded and sequinned (and thus extremely heavy), in the manner of the artists Constant and Simeon. It is published in Spirits in Sequins: Vodou Flags of Haiti,(2007) by Nancy Josephson, p. 40.
This flag is being sold by Judy Hoffman for the benefit of the Art Creation Foundation for Children, which she founded in Jacmel, Haiti.
$850