Painting of dinner party by Wilson Bigaud (Haitian)
Painting: 23.5" x 23.5".Mary Kaplan Collection NYC(see below).
Frame: 25.5" x 25.5"

Wilson Bigaud
(From Wiki)Wilson Bigaud (29 January 1931 - 22 March 2010) was a Haitian painter. Born in Port-au-Prince, Bigaud first worked with clay before becoming a painter. At the International Exhibit in Washington, D.C., in 1950 Bigaud won second place for a painting entitled "Paradise". He also painted a mural in the Holy Trinity Cathedral of Port-au-Prince which depicts the Marriage at Cana. He was a member of the artist group founded by Hector Hyppolite.

Provenance:
Columbia University Press published a book on the Kaplan family collection in 1981(The Alice M Kaplan Collection, cataloged by Linda Bantel and published by the Advisory Council of the Dept of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University, 1981.Printed by the Steinhour Press,Distributed by Columbia University Press.).The collection includes museum quality paintings and drawings by Edgar Degas, Egon Schiele and paintings by Ammi Phillips Giorgio Morandi and John Peto, as well as 20th century masters.Mary Kaplan is the daughter of Alice Kaplan.

Puncture in board on right side of painting. Restoration to bottom of painting, restoration over 5% to 10 % of the surface.