Robert Saint-Brice (1893-1973) 53"x28" Spirit of the Sacred Bird 1956 Oil on Board Unframed Painting #1RA Artists/Weiner Dimitri a leading artist associated with

a leading artist associated with the Centre d’Art in Port-au-Prince

or twentieth-century Latin American and Caribbean painting

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The artwork is signed and dated "72 Haiti" in the lower right corner

Robert Saint-Brice (1893-1973) 53"x28" Spirit of the Sacred Bird 1956 Oil on Board Unframed Painting #1RA Artists/Weiner Dimitri a leading artist associated withThis original oil on board by Haitian Vodou priest and visionary painter Robert St. Brice (Ption Ville, 1893 1973), signed and dated 1956, measures 53 x 28 in and comes unframed. A commanding bird like spirit fills the composition, its single piercing eye set within a feathered head that dissolves into a cascade of richly layered plumage in blues, ochres, and deep reds. The image has the hallmarks of St. Brice's finest work, a presence rendered not