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Exquisite "drapo Vodou" (Vodou flag) by the most original, celebrated and sought-after artist of the medium. Port-au-Prince, Haiti, c.1990.
Sequins and beads on fabric, with burlap backing.
(40" x 33.5")
Provenance: "Dambala" by Antoine Oleyant, was created in the late 1980s - 1992. Very good condition, sequins sewn on burlap backing, velcro installation strips attached. Current owner acquired from Tina Girouard in 2010. Ships with provenance document and color photo of Antoine used in the book "Sequin Artists of Haiti", written by Tina Girouard.
Condition: Very good condition with exception of a few missing sequins near the edge, as shown in photo diagram and accompanying details. No apparent fading.
Evelyn Alcide (Port-au-Prince, Haiti)
Sequins and beads on fabric (42" x 32"), c.2010
This flag is extremely densely beaded and sequinned (and thus extremely heavy), in the manner of the artists Constant, Simeon and others.
This flag is being sold by Judy Hoffman for the benefit of the Art Creation Foundation for Children, which she founded in Jacmel, Haiti.
Brianville Valris (Port-au-Prince, Haiti)
Sequins and beads on fabric (42 x 35), c.2010
This flag is extremely densely beaded and sequinned (and thus extremely heavy), in the manner of the artists Constant and Simeon.
This flag is being sold by Judy Hoffman for the benefit of the Art Creation Foundation for Children, which she founded in Jacmel, Haiti.
Carved wood sculpture, covered with beads and inset coin, set in beeswax
7" tall, 5" dia.
Luis Ruiz, Huichol people - Nayarit, Mexico, c. 1970's - 1980's. Purchased by current owner in 1997.
Dambalah Haida Wedo Beaded Drapo
Roudy Azor (Port-au-Prince, Haiti)
Sequins and beads on fabric (25" x 20"),
c. 2013
The flag is extremely densely beaded and sequinned (and thus extremely heavy), in the manner of the artists Constant and Simeon.
Dambala Vodou Banner
Artist Unknown, in style of Bel Air artists such as Silva Joseph, Edgar Jean-Louis (Port-au-Prince, Haiti)
Sequins and beads on fabric (31 x 31), c.1985
Provenance: Grass Roots Gallery, NY, c.1990
Fils Lafleur (Port-au-Prince, Haiti)
Beads on fabric (35 3/4" x 30 1/4")
c.2005
This flag is being sold by Judy Hoffman for the benefit of the Art Creation Foundation for Children, which she founded in Jacmel, Haiti.
Jean-Baptiste Jean Joseph (Croix des Bouquets, Haiti)
Beads on velvet fabric
(29" x 22 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. 37.
This flag is being sold by Judy Hoffman for the benefit of the Art Creation Foundation for Children, which she founded in Jacmel, Haiti.
Exhibited at Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center, Millville, New Jersey (July to December, 2016) for exhibit: Shades of Past, Colors of Present: Preserving Caribbean Cultural Heritage in New Jersey.
Comunidad Indigena de Zitakua, Nayarit, Mexico, c. 1990
Yarn pressed into beeswax on plywood. With black aluminum frame.
(23 1/2" x 23 1/2" , 60cm x 60cm). Framed dimensions: 24" x 24" x 1".
Provenance: Current owner purchased c.1994 from Mark Lang, the collector who provided the 31 José Benitez Sanchez (father of Eliseo Benitez Sanchez) paintings now in the collection of the University of Pennsylvania Museum, documented in the book Visions of a Huichol Shaman by Dr. Peter Furst (2003). It was purchased from artist in approximately 1990.
The text written on the back of the painting has been (badly) translated as follows:
"Here we see the sacred _ the world of our gods who were sent by our founder goddess "Takutsi Nakawe" who from the first moment our first world was established. She had to carry out to redesignate the four cardinal points in which she existed as power before _ the flood. Therefore her bastion of power established the four cardinal points and there with control and power is first established the representative center of our birth and after it the four cardinal points. To the snakes gods guardians of the holy places. For the _ of we the Huichols and carry the tradition and culture of our ancestors."
Nadine Fortilus (Port-au-Prince, Haiti)
Sequins and beads on fabric (29" x 23"),
c.2005
This flag is extremely densely beaded and sequinned (and thus extremely heavy), in the manner of the artists Constant and Simeon.
This flag is being sold by Judy Hoffman for the benefit of the Art Creation Foundation for Children, which she founded in Jacmel, Haiti.
Dambalah Beaded Drapo Vodou (Vodou flag)
Roudy Azor (Port-au-Prince, Haiti)
Sequins and beads on fabric (29" x 19"),
2018
This flag is extremely densely beaded and sequinned (and thus extremely heavy), in the manner of the artists Constant and Simeon.
P.G. (Port-au-Prince, Haiti)
Sequins and beads on fabric
(27 3/4" x 27 3/4"), c.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.
Dambalah - Haida Beaded Drapo Vodou (Vodou flag)
Roudy Azor (Port-au-Prince, Haiti)
Sequins and beads on fabric (25" x 15"),
c.2013
This flag is extremely densely beaded and sequinned (and thus extremely heavy), in the manner of the artists Constant and Simeon.
