Mireille Delice (Port-au-Prince, Haiti)
Sequins and beads on fabric (43 1/2" x 43 1/2"), c.2010.
This flag is extremely densely beaded and sequinned (and thus extremely heavy), in the manner of the artists Constant and Simeon.
(Port-au-Prince, Haiti)
Sequins and beads on fabric (38” x 37 1/4”),
c.2008.
Ex. collection of Nancy Josephson.
This flag is extremely densely beaded and sequinned (and thus extremely heavy), in the manner of the artists Constant and Simeon.
The flag is published in the book Spirits in Sequins: Vodou Flags of Haiti by Nancy Josephson (p. 168).
Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Sequins and beads on fabric.
(38 1/2” x 35”), c.2005.
Ex. collection of Nancy Josephson.
The flag is published in the book Spirits in Sequins: Vodou Flags of Haiti by Nancy Josephson (p. 22). She writes: "Note the use of the chromolithograph image of Saint Antonio coupled with the incredible sequin work featuring Rockville's signature "shading".
Artist unknown. Oaxaca, Mexico, 1st half of 20th cent.
Mixed media - Wood, gesso and paint figure with fabric, paper, tin-foil in wood and glass box.
(14 1/2" w. x 7 3/4" d. x 27 1/4" h.)
Amina Simeon (Jacmel, Haiti, 1959 - 2000)
Seed and bugle beads on fabric backing but without fabric trim.
(22" x 18 3/4”), c.1998.
Ex. collection of Nancy Josephson.
Published in Spirits in Sequins: Vodu Flags of Haiti (p. 156).
Sequins and beads on fabric
(40 x 33), 2000
This flag is being sold by Judy Hoffman for the benefit of the Art Creation Foundation for Children, which she founded in Jacmel, Haiti.
Sequins and beads on fabric (40 1/2" x 34"), 2009
This flag is being sold by Judy Hoffman for the benefit of the Art Creation Foundation for Children, which she founded in Jacmel, Haiti.
Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Sequins and beads on fabric.
(43 1/2” x 36”), c.2005.
Ex. collection of Nancy Josephson.
The flag is published in the book Spirits in Sequins: Vodou Flags of Haiti by Nancy Josephson (p. 30).
Condition note: a few sequins are missing, notably on neck of central figure (see photo).
Unsigned work - style is characteristic of the drapo artists in the BelAir neighborhood of Port-au-Prince. Quite possibly from the studio of Sylva Joseph and Edgar Jean Louis.
Sequins and beads on fabric (30 1/2” x 30 1/2”), c. 1990's.
Ex. collection of Rudi Stern.
