Seymour Bottex (1922-2016) 20"x12" Market Woman with Fruit Baskets c1970 Oil on Masonite Unframed Painting #1LA Artists/Duncan Roseme Depas played a significant role

Depas played a significant role in founding the Foyer des Arts Plastiques

the well-known Haitian artist signed this original cubist artwork

" meaning the gift features the portrait of a little girl with flowers

expressive portraiture

working on craft projects

Seymour Bottex (1922-2016) 20"x12" Market Woman with Fruit Baskets c1970 Oil on Masonite Unframed Painting #1LA Artists/Duncan Roseme Depas played a significant roleThis oil on board by Seymour Bottex portrays a Cap Hatien market woman balancing an overflowing basket of tropical fruit, pineapples, bananas, mangoes, and eggplant among them, on her head, with a blue and a pink fish hanging from either side of the basket's rim. Dressed in a red dress with a yellow head wrap and sash, she stands with a woven fruit basket at each hand, her direct gaze anchoring the composition. Bottex's flattened forms and saturated