Seymour Bottex (1922-2016) 20"x12" Market Woman with Fruit Baskets c1970 Oil on Masonite Unframed Painting #1LA Artists/Duncan Roseme Depas played a significant role

Depas played a significant role in founding the Foyer des Arts Plastiques

this work reflects the artist’s commitment to portraying everyday life with harmony and grace—an enduring hallmark of Haitian painting from the post–Centre d’Art generation

soon captured the attention of the art world in Haiti and his career took off very rapidly

" meaning the gift features the portrait of a little girl with flowers

the well-known Haitian artist signed this original cubist artwork

Seymour Bottex (1922-2016) 20"x12" Market Woman with Fruit Baskets c1970 Oil on Masonite Unframed Painting #1LA Artists/Duncan Roseme Depas played a significant roleThis oil on board by Seymour Bottex portrays a Cap Hatien market woman balancing an overflowing basket of tropical fruit, pineapples, bananas, mangoes, and eggplant among them, on her head, with a blue and a pink fish hanging from either side of the basket's rim. Dressed in a red dress with a yellow head wrap and sash, she stands with a woven fruit basket at each hand, her direct gaze anchoring the composition. Bottex's flattened forms and saturated