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Haitian Art by Castera Bazile Castera Bazile was born in Jacmel, Haiti in 1923. He found employment at the new Centre d'Art in 1944 as a stockman and general maintainance man. At some point he began to paint and in 1955 won the grand prize in an international art competition sponsored by Alcoa. In 1957 he received $1000 as the winner of an art contest sponsored by Holiday Magazine. He died prematurely in 1965. Castera Bazile is a giant among Haitian painters (LPH) |
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| #022 Castera Bazile 18x12 oil on masonite 1958 "Still Life" $8000 Haitian Frame SOLD This painting is dated on the lower right under the signature 30/10/58. It was acquired in Port-au-Prince in 1959 and has resided in a Wisconsin collection since then. |
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