Jacques-Enguerrand Gourgue (1930-1996) 36"x28" Seats At The Ceremony (Vodou Scene) 1960-1970 Oil on Board Painting #10-SM Artists/Sanon Marceau The style that I have

The style that I have already exists

framed (49 ¾" x 69")

Obas’ artistic career began at the Art Center in 1948

embodied in fish-like subjects" Peintres Haitians by Gerald Alexis

Beginning with themes from the Bible and current events

Jacques-Enguerrand Gourgue (1930-1996) 36"x28" Seats At The Ceremony (Vodou Scene) 1960-1970 Oil on Board Painting #10-SM Artists/Sanon Marceau The style that I haveSeats at the Ceremony by J. E. Gourgue is a powerful Haitian Vodou composition centered around a sacred tree surrounded by empty ceremonial chairs, ritual vessels, offerings, and symbolic objects. Executed in Gourgues distinctive surrealist style, the painting evokes the spiritual atmosphere of a Vodou gathering suspended between the visible and invisible worlds. The dramatic opening within the tree trunk glows with fiery red and orange tones,