Prefete Duffaut (Haitian, 1923-2012) 20"x16" La Ville Imaginaire c1960 Oil on Board Unframed Painting #1PP
Prefete Duffaut (Haitian, 1923-2012) 20"x16" La Ville Imaginaire c1960 Oil on Board Unframed Painting #1PP
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Préfète Duffaut, one of the most celebrated names in twentieth century Haitian painting, captures his signature vision of an imagined hillside city in this richly detailed oil on board composition from around 1960, titled La Ville Imaginaire. A ribbon of pale road winds down through terraced green and ochre mountains, threading past clusters of gingerbread houses in coral, teal, and gold before reaching a harbor dotted with small sailboats. Tall, stylized palms rise against a pale sky, their fronds echoing the rhythm of the rooftops below, while tiny figures in wide brimmed hats make their way along the switchbacks, animating the scene with everyday life.
Duffaut developed this imaginary city motif as a way of reimagining Haiti's coastal towns as fantastical, almost architectural visions, blending memory, faith, and invention into a single sweeping view. The device became so closely associated with him that art historians credit it as one of the defining contributions of the Haitian modernist movement. This work comes from a private collection in Naples, Florida, and carries the artist's signature at lower left, with condition consistent with its age. We will provide a Certificate of Authenticity.
About this artist
About this artist
Préfète Duffaut’s mystical, intricately detailed paintings—often dedicated to a pantheon of Vodou spirits—are widely collected and exhibited around the world. His works are housed in major institutions including the Musée d’Art Nader and Musée d’Art Haïtien in Haiti; the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa; the Waterloo Museum of Art in Waterloo, Iowa; the New Orleans Museum of Art in Louisiana; the Museum of Modern Art in New York; and the Milwaukee Art Museum in Wisconsin. Celebrated as “a master of popular painting in the 1940s,” Duffaut is renowned for his fantastical, explicitly urban compositions. A painting by Préfète Duffaut was also featured in The New York Times Top News, Art Section, on December 16, 2021, in the article “Expanding The Scope of Latin American Art"!
