and passersby fill the composition as figures carrying baskets and goods move through the sunlit street toward the bustling marketplace in the distance
From a private collection in New York
Paris 1986 and Haiti Voodoo Kingdom to Modern Riviera by John Allen Franciscus)
It is sold as is condition and unframed
making him one of Haiti’s most collected and internationally recognized painters
Jean-Claude Garoute -TIGA (1936-2006) 24" x20" Spiritual Abstraction 1998 Acrylic on Board Unframed Painting #1SM Artists/Charles Fritz and passersby fill the compositionThis signed 1998 work by Jean Claude Garoute (Tiga), founding force of the Saint Soleil movement, represents a powerful example of his mature spiritual abstraction. The commanding visage, constructed in layered earth pigments, ochres, and deep blacksevokes Vodou cosmology, ancestral presence, and the sacred duality between seen and unseen worlds. By the late 1990s, Tiga had distilled form into symbol. Faces became portals. Structure became ritual.