Seymour Bottex (1922-2016) 20"x12" Market Woman with Fruit Baskets c1970 Oil on Masonite Unframed Painting #1LA 9.5"x7.5" This beautiful and colorful primitive

This beautiful and colorful primitive artwork

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

portrays an elegant evening dance staged within a grand interior illuminated by soft candlelight and framed by richly colored drapery

She subsequently earned her New York State Teaching License

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

Seymour Bottex (1922-2016) 20"x12" Market Woman with Fruit Baskets c1970 Oil on Masonite Unframed Painting #1LA 9.5"x7.5" This beautiful and colorful primitiveThis 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