Laurent Casimir (1928-1990) Original Oil Painting Signed measures 23 X 17 inches unframed. A folk art figural group depicting three Afro Haitian style figures, painted in a colorful palette. Artist signature to bottom CASIMIR. Laurent Casimir was a Haitian artist. Casimir moved to Port-au-Prince in the late 1940s and is here presented to the Centre d'Art in 1947 by his friend, the painter Dieudonné Cedor. From 1950 to 1956 he attended the Foyer of Fine Arts, founded by a group of intellectuals and modern artists, including Cedor.

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