Seymour Etienne Bottex (1922-2016)
Oil on board (24” x 20” (61 x 51 cm), 30.25” x 26.25” w/frame). Framed.
c.1962
Provenance: Centre d'Art, Haiti; Ambassador Lane and Mrs. Sanya Bezencenet Timmons
Amina Simeon (Jacmel, Haiti, 1959 - 2000) Sequins and beads on fabric. (23" x 26"), c.1998 Currently mounted on board. Provenance: Collection of Nancy Josephson.
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.)
Poland. 1979.
Oil on board ( 19.75” x 14”)
From private collection.
Note that there is a color shift in the lower third of the painting, presumably due to sun exposure or soiling.
This flag is not signed but was bought from him in the late 1990s, and is definitely in his style..
Sequins and beads on fabric
(34.75” x 31.25”) c.1995.
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.
This flag is not signed but was bought from him by Dr. Bartoli in the 1990s, and is definitely in his style..
Sequins and beads on fabric
(35 x 29) c.1990s.
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).
