ARTNOIR SHOWCASE AFRO-ART HISTORY 101
PREFETE DUFFANT (1923- ).
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" Bays, Peaks, and People"
Oil on Composition Board 27" x 23"
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"A taciturn, introverted youth, Duffaut lived through an unhappy childhood ruled by an incompetent mother, with drawing as his only expressive outlet. At 12 he worked with his father as a carpenter, assisting him as a sailboat builder in Jacmel. He recounted that the Virgin Mary appeared to him in a dream at La Gonave Island, leading him to produce an ornamental scupture for the chapel dedicated to her.
In 1944, he introducted himself to Rigaud Benoit, visiting Jacmel as a talent scout for the Art Center.
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" Imaginary City", c. 1978
Oil on Composition Board"
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A naive painter, Duffaut started out doing highly precise paintings of his home town, then shifted toward a style toward a style at times sophisticated, at times fantastic, depending on the painting, allowing his unbridled imagination to tinker with the laws of gravity. Encouraged by an American artist living in Haiti, Bill Kraus, Duffaut joined the Art Center in 1948. In 1951, he painted a mural at the Holy Trinity Cathedral. A poet and mystic, he might be said to be a dream's painter depicting his hopes and beliefs, as exemplified by his famous painting "Virgin on the Mountain Top".
His work is exhibited in the United States and Europe. He is one of the Art Center's leading painters. He is world renownedforhis mountainous landscapes with serpentine roads and his crowded street scenes".
La Peinture Haitienne/Haitian Arts. Paris, Nathan, 1986. p. 110&111
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