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Dames en bleu
Pira Casso (b. 1971)
$600
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Size
- 11 × 14 in
- Year
- 2023
- Price
- $600
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About the work
Blue and white dresses press together in a close gathering. Pira Casso has repeatedly changed the way he paints Haiti’s market crowds. Here, the repeated colours give the eye a steady rhythm to follow. Individual presences become part of a larger company, drawing our attention through the whole without losing the pleasure of pausing with one person.
Long dark strokes form arms and headwraps, with pink straw hats among them. Fruit baskets, sacks, grain trays and buckets fill the scene beneath a wavy band across the top. Most figures face away.
About the artist
Pira Casso is the name under which Petizil Durand paints; galleries also spell it Piracasso. Galerie Macondo records that he was born in Pétion-Ville on 22 May 1971, began to paint in 1989 and took the name in homage to Pablo Picasso. His father was a butcher and his mother sold goods in the market. He paints market scenes, a long-established subject in Haitian painting, and the gallery describes his treatment of it as his own and as changing over the years.