Dieuseul Paul Art for Sale and Sold Prices

b. 1952 -

Born in 1952 in Damiens, Haiti. A founding member of the Saint-Soleil group of artists, championed by Andre Malraux, Paul began to paint in 1974. His work is published in Haiti: Art Naif, Art Vodou (1988), Where Art is Joy (Rodman, 1988), and Dialogue du Réel et de l’Imaginaire (1990). Dieuseul Paul passed away in July 2006.

Paul said he started painting on Christmas day, 1971, though he wasn’t formally exhibited with the Saint Soleil school of avant-garde Haitian painters until ten years later. Tiga Garoute, a painter himself, encouraged him and all the other Saint Soleil painters. Paul explains what he does and doesn’t know about his art in “Images from Haiti:” “I am not able to give you all the explanations. That’s for the intellectual, for the art critic to say what they really represent. This is what I do, this is my style. Look, here I can tell you this is a face or whether I see a flower. I can tell you this is a flower or this is a bird, but to tell you all the meaning at other levels would be very very difficult for me because I never went to school or to any painting school. It’s just a mystery of Creation.”