Claude Dambreville (1934-2021) 36"x48" Market Vendors with Carrots 1997 Acrylic on Canvas Unframed Painting#1JN-HA (Copy)
Claude Dambreville (1934-2021) 36"x48" Market Vendors with Carrots 1997 Acrylic on Canvas Unframed Painting#1JN-HA (Copy)
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This vibrant acrylic painting by Haitian artist Claude Dambreville depicts a group of market vendors gathered around baskets of fresh produce. Women wearing patterned headscarves and a man in a straw hat arrange vegetables and fruits, while a large woven basket filled with carrots anchors the foreground. The composition highlights everyday market life in Haiti, capturing the quiet rhythm of work and community. Rendered in Dambreville’s refined figurative style, the scene features soft tonal transitions, carefully balanced forms, and a harmonious palette of greens, earth tones, and warm highlights. The artist’s attention to gesture and posture brings a sense of intimacy and authenticity to this depiction of rural commerce.A compelling example of Haitian market imagery and a strong addition for collectors of Haitian art.
About this artist
About this artist
Claude Dambreville was born in Port-au-Prince on December 17, 1934, and died on March 15, 2021. He studied accounting and worked for some months as a trainee at the “ Haiti Journal” newspaper. He was also the director of a broadcasting station “ Radio Tropiques” for ten years. Author of over 100 tales and short stories, he is also a humorous writer. He studied drawing and painting at the School ABC in Paris, at the Art Center, and with his father-in-law, the late Haitian artist Pétion Savain. He has exhibited internationally. "Dambreville's work is essentially based on the play of shadow and light" (Peintres Haitiens by Gerald Alexis).
