Pauleus Vital (Haitian, 1918-1984) 24"x30" Village Scene 1972 Oil on Board Vintage Painting #1MFN Artists/Michaud Yves The Friends of has sold

The Friends of has sold paintings by Alexandre Grégoire HAS Haiti to raise funds for the Hôpital Albert Schweitzer Haiti in Deschapelles

depicts a boy with his red bicycle behind a tree

5 Jolie Jardin Limited Edition

This unframed piece is from a collection in Ontario

Pauleus Vital (Haitian, 1918-1984) 24"x30" Village Scene 1972 Oil on Board Vintage Painting #1MFN Artists/Michaud Yves The Friends of has soldA 1972 oil on board by Haitian master Pauleus Vital depicting a hillside village near Jacmel, with brightly painted houses set among dense tropical greenery. A woman sweeps a dirt path near a stone well in the foreground while two men carry sugarcane through the scene, a composition typical of Vital's detailed renderings of Haitian rural life. Vital, born in Jacmel in 1917, trained as a cabinetmaker and shipbuilder before beginning to paint at 38,