Prefete Duffaut (Haitian, 1923-2012) "Imaginary City" Oil on Canvas Framed Painting 36"h X 24"w #94-3-96GSN-NY
Prefete Duffaut (Haitian, 1923-2012) "Imaginary City" Oil on Canvas Framed Painting 36"h X 24"w #94-3-96GSN-NY
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This captivating painting by Préféte Duffaut features an imaginative cityscape woven across a network of winding paths, elevated walkways, and circular worlds suspended within a dreamlike landscape. Duffaut’s visionary compositions are celebrated for their labyrinthine structures, symbolic micro-cities, and spiritual sense of ascent. In this work, brightly colored houses encircle serene blue waters while tiny figures travel through spiraling roads that connect one floating enclave to another, creating a harmonious universe rich with meaning and narrative rhythm. The artist’s meticulous detail, radiant palette, and signature structural complexity exemplify his renowned “Ville Imaginaire” style. This painting comes from the private collection of Georges S. Nader in New York and will be accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity issued by Myriam Nader Haitian Art Gallery.
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"!
