Seymour Bottex (1922-2016) 20"x12" Market Woman with Fruit Baskets c1970 Oil on Masonite Unframed Painting #1LA 9.5"x7.5" This beautiful and colorful primitive

This beautiful and colorful primitive artwork

She subsequently earned her New York State Teaching License

The surface shows age-related wear consistent with a 19th-century work

dreamlike style that established him as one of Haiti's most celebrated modern artists

Seymour Bottex (1922-2016) 20"x12" Market Woman with Fruit Baskets c1970 Oil on Masonite Unframed Painting #1LA 9.5"x7.5" This beautiful and colorful primitiveThis 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