Seymour Etienne Bottex

Place: Port-Margot

Born: 1922

Death: 2016

Biography:

Seymour Etienne Bottex was a Haitian painter born in Port-Margot, Haiti in 1922. He worked as a photographer until 1955 when his older brother Jean-Baptiste encouraged him to begin painting. Bottex joined the Centre d'Art and later the Galerie Issa in Port-au-Prince. His paintings, which mingle humorous, historical, and biblical themes, are exhibited worldwide and have been auctioned at Sotheby's in New York. He is considered one of the finest Haitian naïf painters, and his murals in the Episcopal Cathedral de Sainte Trinité in Port-au-Prince are considered the most important achievement in Haitian modern art. Bottex's paintings have been sold by the Friends of HAS Haiti to raise funds for the Hôpital Albert Schweitzer Haiti, located in Deschapelles. He died in 2016.