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Pierre Joseph Valcin

Pierre Joseph Valcin (1925 – 2000) was born in Port-au-Prince to a seamstress mother and bus driver father. He was raised by the mother of fellow painter Gerard Valcin, his half-brother. He worked as a mechanic, plumber, and stone mason before turning to art in the early 1960s; his half-brother Gerard was his tutor. Pierre Joseph joined the Centre D’art in 1966 and maintained his childlike style, including wildly disproportionate elements. Until the mid-1970s, he signed his name on his paintings as “Pierre Joseph.”

From: “Masterpieces of Haitian Art: Seven Decades of Unique Visual Heritage” by Candice Russell. Schiffer Publications Ltd, 2013.

Pierre Joseph Valcin

Pierre Joseph Valcin (1925 – 2000) was born in Port-au-Prince to a seamstress mother and bus driver father. He was raised by the mother of fellow painter Gerard Valcin, his half-brother. He worked as a mechanic, plumber, and stone mason before turning to art in the early 1960s; his half-brother Gerard was his tutor. Pierre Joseph joined the Centre D’art in 1966 and maintained his childlike style, including wildly disproportionate elements. Until the mid-1970s, he signed his name on his paintings as “Pierre Joseph.”

From: “Masterpieces of Haitian Art: Seven Decades of Unique Visual Heritage” by Candice Russell. Schiffer Publications Ltd, 2013.

Nursing Mother Nursing Mother
Farm Farm
Pink Flowers and Ladies Pink Flowers and Ladies
Heaven Heaven
Soireé Soireé

 

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