How many people can you press into one great painting? Well, if your doing a painting of a market and your name is Laurent Casimir 500 or more will do. The Haitian painter (1927-1990) started his series of detailed crowded market scenes in the sixties. Using mostly red, orange and yellow he created an original style that soon was copied by many others, resulting in a Haitian archetype.
Laurent Casimir set the tone for Haiti’s paintings of markets with his ‘Crowded Market Scenes’ series
Laurent Casimir joined the Centre d’Art in Port au Prince in 1946 and later attended the Foyer of Fine Arts. His work soon attracted the attention of international collectors. By the mid seventies he had a school of his own, where his apprentices would fill in the colors and Casimir would add his signature.
Nowadays it is not easy to confirm the authenticity of the paintings that bear his name. His work can be found at the Figge Art Museum, the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Brooklyn Museum
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