The Haitian paintings in this group are all from a collection curated and collected by a well known anthropologist and were part of the Dr. Brickston collection as exhibited in the Museum of Man in San Diego. These artworks are all at least 40 years old with many that are from the late 50s and 60s.Gervais Emmanuel Ducasse was born in 1903 in Port-au-Prince. He came from a middle class background and received, compared with the majority of Haitian artists, an excellent formal education. He became an agriculture agent for the government, giving him the opportunity to travel extensively in Haiti. He even visited the United states several times. He worked for the government until 1948, losing his job due to a lack of funding. Forced to find a new profession, he turned to painting, which had been an interest since the age of four. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Musée d’Art Haitien and the Milwaukee Museum of Art, and is published in Where Art is Joy (Rodman, 1988), Peintres Haitiens (Gerald Alexis) and Haitian Art (Ute Stebich, 1978). Ducasse passed away in 1988. Bio info taken primarily from Haitian Art (Stebich).oil on board16h x 24 w hand carved frame 3 1/2"

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