Seymour Etienne Bottex (Haitian, 1922-2016)
Marche Cap-Haitien. Oil on masonite, signed "S. E. Bottex Cap-Haitian" lower center, in a wooden frame, overall 26" x 34".
Seymour Etienne Bottex is a Haitian painter. Born in Port-Margot, in northern Haiti, Bottex worked as a photographer until 1955 when his older brother Jean-Baptiste encouraged him to begin painting. He joined the Centre d'Art and later the Galerie Issa in Port-au-Prince. His paintings, mingling humorous, historical, and biblical themes, are exhibited worldwide and auctioned at Sotheby's in New York. He is considered one of the finest Haitian naïf painters, and his murals in the Episcopal Cathedral de Sainte Trinité in Port-au-Prince are considered the most important achievement in Haitian modern art.
Condition: Drippings/accretions from sky of painting with one continuing to cental portion, surface soils.
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Marche Cap-Haitien. Oil on masonite, signed "S. E. Bottex Cap-Haitian" lower center, in a wooden frame, overall 26" x 34".
Seymour Etienne Bottex is a Haitian painter. Born in Port-Margot, in northern Haiti, Bottex worked as a photographer until 1955 when his older brother Jean-Baptiste encouraged him to begin painting. He joined the Centre d'Art and later the Galerie Issa in Port-au-Prince. His paintings, mingling humorous, historical, and biblical themes, are exhibited worldwide and auctioned at Sotheby's in New York. He is considered one of the finest Haitian naïf painters, and his murals in the Episcopal Cathedral de Sainte Trinité in Port-au-Prince are considered the most important achievement in Haitian modern art.
Condition: Drippings/accretions from sky of painting with one continuing to cental portion, surface soils.
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