Pauleus Vital (Haitian, 1918-1984) 24"x30" Village Scene 1972 Oil on Board Vintage Painting #1MFN Artists/Michaud Yves colorful and fragrant market place

colorful and fragrant market place of Petion-Ville

Behind the figure

Pascal Smarth explores his experience and that of others: " I armed myself with a stripped line

allowing him to produce elaborate

Pauleus Vital (Haitian, 1918-1984) 24"x30" Village Scene 1972 Oil on Board Vintage Painting #1MFN Artists/Michaud Yves colorful and fragrant market placeA 1972 oil on board by Haitian master Pauleus Vital depicting a hillside village near Jacmel, with brightly painted houses set among dense tropical greenery. A woman sweeps a dirt path near a stone well in the foreground while two men carry sugarcane through the scene, a composition typical of Vital's detailed renderings of Haitian rural life. Vital, born in Jacmel in 1917, trained as a cabinetmaker and shipbuilder before beginning to paint at 38,