Seymour Bottex (1922-2016) 20"x12" Market Woman with Fruit Baskets c1970 Oil on Masonite Unframed Painting #1LA Artists/Duncan Roseme this work reflects the artist’s

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

expressive portraiture

Stivenson Magloire was born on August 16

Framed by dense tropical foliage and an expansive sky

He used to paint using the palette

Seymour Bottex (1922-2016) 20"x12" Market Woman with Fruit Baskets c1970 Oil on Masonite Unframed Painting #1LA Artists/Duncan Roseme this work reflects the artist’sThis 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