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Claude Dambreville
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"Market Scene"
Style # Haiti 31
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Style #Haiti 31 is available as:
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5" X 7" Cards printed on recycled cardstock
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| Card and envelope - Greeted as shown |
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| Journals: 128 pages - great for photos, drawings, poetry and written entries.
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Claude Dambreville was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, December 17, 1934. He is
renowned for using flat colors, "strong light and deep shadows" particularly
to depict his favorite subject - women of the markets. Dambreville's paintings have
an esthetic value that immediately catches the eye of the viewer. He is not satisfied
to reproduce his models realistically so much as to capture the expressive line and
form which gives these figures their essential Haitian character. He has a unique
ability to use these techniques to show the strength, the dignity, and the grace
of his subjects. His art is much too sophisticated to be included in the Haitian
"naive" category.
The artist's formal training includes the study of artistic anatomy at "L'Atelier,"
under Nehemy. It is there that he met the famous artist Petion Savain, whose daughter
he married in 1973. While best known for his art, Dambreville is also a journalist
and a writer, and in the period 1956-1968 he was Director of the radio station Radio-Tropiques.
He is the author of over 100 stories and articles, and of the novel "Coup de
Tonnere." He co-authored the novel "L'Amerique Saigne" with Franck
Etienne.
Dambreville has had one man shows thoughout Europe, Latin America, Africa, and the
U.S., and his paintings are sought after by knowledgable collectors. He was sponsored
by President and Mrs. Mitterand in shows at Paris and in Nime in 1991. His collectors
include, aside from the Mitterands, Pierre Cardin and Denzel Washington. |
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