Prefete Duffaut (Haitian, 1923-2012) 24"x36" La Ville Imaginaire 1976 Oil on Canvas Unframed Painting #1SU
Prefete Duffaut (Haitian, 1923-2012) 24"x36" La Ville Imaginaire 1976 Oil on Canvas Unframed Painting #1SU
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La Ville Imaginaire is a sweeping oil on canvas by Prefete Duffaut, one of the founding masters of the Haitian art movement and a leading voice within the Saint Soleil tradition of imagined architecture. Painted in 1976 and signed and dated by the artist, this 24 x 36 inch canvas unfolds a fantastical coastal town built into terraced hillsides, its winding roads threading between candy colored houses, churches, and palm groves that cascade down to a harbor filled with sailboats and a lone steamship. Crowds of tiny figures animate the shoreline and switchback paths, a hallmark of Duffaut's ability to compress an entire imagined civilization into a single canvas. The painting comes from a private collection in New Mexico and remains unframed, offered in excellent original condition. Duffaut's imaginary cities are among the most sought after subjects in his body of work, prized for their intricate detail, saturated color, and visionary reimagining of Haiti's landscape. We will provide a Certificate of Authenticity.
About this artist
About this artist
Préfète Duffaut’s mystical, intricately detailed paintings—often dedicated to a pantheon of Vodou spirits—are widely collected and exhibited around the world. His works are housed in major institutions including the Musée d’Art Nader and Musée d’Art Haïtien in Haiti; the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa; the Waterloo Museum of Art in Waterloo, Iowa; the New Orleans Museum of Art in Louisiana; the Museum of Modern Art in New York; and the Milwaukee Art Museum in Wisconsin. Celebrated as “a master of popular painting in the 1940s,” Duffaut is renowned for his fantastical, explicitly urban compositions. A painting by Préfète Duffaut was also featured in The New York Times Top News, Art Section, on December 16, 2021, in the article “Expanding The Scope of Latin American Art"!
