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.
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.
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.
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
Fon, Benin, late 20th century
Wood with red, green, yellow, black, white oil paints, nylon string (18"h. x 6 1/2"w. x 8" d.). Snake in pot is operable by pulling string.
Ex. collection of Nancy Josephson. Purchased by collector in Benin, c.2000.
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.
Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Beads and sequins on fabric, with clear plastic covering on chromolithograph print of face.
(16" x 15 1/2”), 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. 25). She writes "In this small 14" x 14" flag, Rockville needed to use the chromolithograph to show the face of the saint. Note the use of French curves in the border. This is one of Rockville's trademarks."
Evelyn Alcide (Port-au-Prince, Haiti)
Sequins and beads on fabric (15 1/2" x 18 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.
This flag is being sold by Judy Hoffman for the benefit of the Art Creation Foundation for Children, which she founded in Jacmel, Haiti.