ID 821042
Lot 67 | Hector Hyppolite (1894-1948)
Estimate value
$ 150 000 – 250 000
Damballah La Flambeau (also known as Aida-Quédo and The Snake Goddess Ayida-Wedo)
signed ‘H.H.’ (lower right)
oil on board laid on board
30 x 24 in. (76.2 x 61 cm.)
Painted circa 1947.
Provenance
The artist.
DeWitt Peters, Haiti.
Kurt Bachman, New York.
Gerhard and Ute Stebich, New York (1978).
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Exhibited
Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Das Naive Bild der Welt, 1961.
London, Art Council, Popular Paintings from Haiti from the Collection of Kurt Bachmann, 1968-69, p. 13, no. 36. This exhibition traveled to Cambridge, Arts Council Gallery, 2-23 November 1968, Billingham, Art Gallery, 30 November -28 December 1968, Sheffield, Mappin Art Gallery, 4-26 January 1969, Manchester, Manchester Museum, 1-22 February 1969 Folkestone, Arts Centre, 8-22 March 1969; Cardiff, Welsh Arts Council Gallery, 26 April-17 May 1969; Doncaster, Museum and Art Gallery, 19 July-10 August 1969; London, Hayward Gallery, 18 September-23 October 1969.
Dortmund, Germany, Museum am Ostwall, Art from Haiti from the Collection of Kurt Bachmann, 30 November 1969- 11 January 1970.
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Le Musee D’Art Haitien, November 1975, no. 23.
New York, American Federation of Arts, Haitian Painting: The Native Tradition, November 1973- November 1975, no. 23.
New York, Brooklyn Museum, Haitian Art, 2 September- 5 November 1978, p. 76, no. 50 (illustrated). This exhibition also traveled to Milwaukee, Milwaukee Art Center, 22 December 1978-4 February 1979; New Orleans, New Orleans Museum of Art, 15 September-11 November 1979.
| Artist: | Hector Hyppolite (1894 - 1948) |
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| Art style: | Modern art |
| Place of origin: | Haiti |
| Artist: | Hector Hyppolite (1894 - 1948) |
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| Art style: | Modern art |
| Place of origin: | Haiti |
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