Seymour Bottex (1922-2016) 20"x12" Market Woman with Fruit Baskets c1970 Oil on Masonite Unframed Painting #1LA 9.5"x7.5" portrays an elegant evening dance

portrays an elegant evening dance staged within a grand interior illuminated by soft candlelight and framed by richly colored drapery

She subsequently earned her New York State Teaching License

This original 24"x 16" folk art painting was signed by the late famous Haitian master Gervais Emmanuel Ducasse

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Seymour Bottex (1922-2016) 20"x12" Market Woman with Fruit Baskets c1970 Oil on Masonite Unframed Painting #1LA 9.5"x7.5" portrays an elegant evening danceThis oil on board by Seymour Bottex portrays a Cap Hatien market woman balancing an overflowing basket of tropical fruit, pineapples, bananas, mangoes, and eggplant among them, on her head, with a blue and a pink fish hanging from either side of the basket's rim. Dressed in a red dress with a yellow head wrap and sash, she stands with a woven fruit basket at each hand, her direct gaze anchoring the composition. Bottex's flattened forms and saturated