Seymour Bottex (1922-2016) 20"x12" Market Woman with Fruit Baskets c1970 Oil on Masonite Unframed Painting #1LA 9.5"x7.5" dreamlike style that established him

dreamlike style that established him as one of Haiti's most celebrated modern artists

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The surface shows age-related wear consistent with a 19th-century work

This work exemplifies Roosevelt Sanon’s ability to merge realism with emotional nuance

Seymour Bottex (1922-2016) 20"x12" Market Woman with Fruit Baskets c1970 Oil on Masonite Unframed Painting #1LA 9.5"x7.5" dreamlike style that established himThis oil on board by Seymour Bottex portrays a Cap Hatien market woman balancing an overflowing basket of tropical fruit, pineapples, bananas, mangoes, and eggplant among them, on her head, with a blue and a pink fish hanging from either side of the basket's rim. Dressed in a red dress with a yellow head wrap and sash, she stands with a woven fruit basket at each hand, her direct gaze anchoring the composition. Bottex's flattened forms and saturated