 Highland Park • Pittsburgh, PA 15206 • 1-412-661-1498 macondo@verizon.net A Gallery of Haitian Art |
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For some paintings by Roger Francois that are for sale, Click here Roger Francois was born around 1928 in Petite Riviere, on the Artibonite plain of central Haiti. He began as a wood sculptor and still carves occasionally. He has been painting as well since the early sixties. He loves to paint and sculpt Haitian women, both nudes and market women with baskets and braids. Besides women, M. Francois paints animals: cats, dogs, horses and owls, and in the early 1990’s, began painting sun and moon heads on human bodies. He also does an occasional surreal voudou painting. His style is robust, bold and always fresh and new. He is a charming, explosively good natured man . A painting of his hangs in the National Museum, Brussels, Belgium and another was exhibited in the show of Geoffrey Holder’s collection, ?Spirits? at the Katonah Museum of Art, (NY) in May 1991. His work has appeared in books and museum shows internationally. He is one of Haitian art's best kept secrets. |
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| #2536 Roger Francois 10x12" Acrylic on canvas "Sun Twins with Fish and Baby" 2005 $125 framed in wood, painted green SOLD FEB 2008 |
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| #2537 Roger Francois 10x12" Acrylic on canvas "Topless Mother & Child" 2005 $125 framed in wood, painted gray SOLD FEB 2008 |
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| #2534 Roger Francois 24x20" Acrylic on canvas "Weeping Christ" 2005 $850 Framed in painted wood. SOLD October 2009 * Christ, crucified on the chair, is weeping so copiously that his tears are cascading down and splashing off the back of the man who is feeding at the breast of another religion- vodou. •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
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#2692 Roger Francois