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This is Room 77A Haitian Art by Petion Savain

Petion Savain was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on February 15, 1906. He was educated at the St. Louis de Gonzague high school and the J.B. Damien vocational arts school. He began to paint in 1927 and earned a law degree at Ecole Nationale de Droit in 1931. He published his first book, la Case de Damballah, in 1939, which was also the year that he exhibited his paintings in Cuba. In 1941 he went to New York to study mural and fresco techniques with Jean Charlot, tempera with Stephane Hisch and woodcut engraving techniques with John Taylor Arms, all at the New York Art Students league. He received the IBM medal at the Treasure Island World's Fair and an award from the Gallery of Science and Art in 1939. From 1950 to 1956 Savain was a newspaper columnist in Haiti. He is, of course, the quintessential market painter and has been copied by scores, if not hundreds, of Haitian artists.
Petion Savain died, according to various sources, in 1973 or 1975.

#PSES2. Petion Savain
19.5x10" Oil on Masonite.
"Market Women"
pre-1961 Framed in wood.
$2500

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PSES3. Petion Savain.
31.75x14" Oil on masonite
"Family"
1961. $5600 in thin frame, gold WITHDRAWN
These three paintings were acquired from Petion Savain in Haiti, in 1961.
See photo below.
#PSES1 Petion Savain
39x16" Oil on masonite
1961 $7800 unframed.
SOLD

Petion Savain at his home in Haiti in 1961
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