Haitian

Laurent Casimir

Haiti 1928-1990
Market Place 76.0022

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Raised in a very poor family barely able to survive on the income from their land, Casimir left to search for work in Port-au-Prince. Sheer coincidence brought him to Le Centre d'Art in 1947 where he began to paint. "Never excelling in anything," as he said, Casimir felt most at home among the anonymous Haitians in his paintings: at the market, at carnival, at cockfights, and at vodou ceremonies. Casimir increased the density of his peopled canvases until they resembled patterns.

 

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