Georges Liautaud

Georges Liautaud (1899-1990) worked as a railroad repairman and blacksmith until he was encouraged to join the Centre d’Art by its founder, Dewitt Peters. He became the first of the artists there to work in metal, initiating what is now a traditional art form in Haiti. He creates forged and chiseled forms from oil drums, as well as flattened silhouettes of cut-out and perforated sheet metal. His primal forms, uninfluenced by formal conventions, have a universal impact.

Goat

Three Virgins

Dessalines

Dancing Couple

Woman Carrying Her Crippled Husband