NO. 27 OF 61
Haiti
Jean-Adrien Seide (b. 1956)
$4,500
- Medium
- Acrylic on canvas
- Size
- 36 × 48 in
- Year
- 2009
- Price
- $4,500
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About the work
From a green hillside, a blue bay opens towards a ring of distant mountains. Haitian rivers, plains, mountains and waterfalls are sources for Jean-Adrien Seide’s landscapes. Here, the eye moves between two scales, finding both a sheltered vantage point and the breathing space of a far horizon. The pleasure lies in looking out without losing the feeling of being close.
Royal palms and leafy trees in green, gold and rust line the slope, with houses tucked near the water. Pink-tinged clouds drift above the ridge, and fine, ridged strokes mark the foreground fields.
About the artist
Jean-Adrien Seide was born in Les Cayes, Haiti, on 18 November 1956. Accounts of his training differ. Expressions Galerie d'Art says he studied with Jean-Claude Louis from 1973 and enrolled at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1977, while Galerie Nader describes him as self-taught. After his father's death he moved to Venezuela, where he studied with Efraín López. He paints landscapes of open fields crossed by upright trees and stretching to a distant horizon, sometimes with farm workers, drawing on the Artibonite River, the mountains of Jacmel and the waterfalls of Saut-Mathurin and Péligre. One of his landscapes appeared in the 2009 Art in Embassies exhibition in Port-au-Prince.