Gabriel Alix (November 30, 1930–October 1998) was a

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an painter.

Biography

A native of

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, Alix began to paint following the advice and encouragements of

Hector Hyppolite Hector Hyppolite (1894 – 1948) was a Haitian painter. Considered as the "Grand Maître of Haitian Art" Born in Saint-Marc, Hyppolite was a third generation Vodou priest, or oungan. He also made shoes and painted houses before taking up fine ar ...

, a friend of his father. In 1946, Hyppolite introduced him to DeWitt Peters who had founded the

Centre d'Art Le Centre d'Art, also known as Centre d'Art d'Haïti, is an art center, art school and art gallery located in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. It was founded in 1944 by American Watercolor painting, watercolorist DeWitt Peters and several prominent Haitians ...

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two years prior. Subsequently, Alix became a member of the

, before joining the Galerie Issa in the mid 1980s. His paintings often depict still lives, religious subjects, and animals in luscious jungle surroundings. In 1954, one of his engravings was presented in an exhibition at the

Museum of Modern Art in New York The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. MoMA's collection spans the late 19th century to the present, and includes over 200,000 works of arc ...

(MoMA), and still features in the museum's collection. Since then, he has participated in numerous exhibitions in the Caribbean, the United States, Latin America and Europe, and his works are regularly presented at auction, notably at

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or Drouot.

References

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