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Paintings by Seymour Etienne Bottex
Seymour Etienne Bottex
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Seymour Etienne Bottex was born on December 24, 1922 in Port Margot. Bottex worked as a photographer until 1955 when his brother encouraged him to begin painting. He joined the Centre d’Art and later the Galerie Issa in Port-au-Prince. His paintings, mingling humorous, historical, and biblical themes, are exhibited worldwide and 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.