Gerard Fortuné

Gerard Fortune (born 1925, Montaigne Noir) worked as a pastry chef at a hotel, before beginning to paint in 1978. His playful figurative works depict a wide range of figures in Haitian life and mythology. Gerard’s work has been exhibited internationally, is included in the permanent collections of Ramapo College, New Jersey and the Waterloo Museum of Art in Iowa, and is published in Where Art is Joy(Rodman, 1988), Dialogue du Réel et de L’imaginaire (1990), and Island on Fire (Demme, 1997), and the recent monograph, Gerard Fortuné.