mountainous cityscape with criss-crossing roads

Préfête Duffaut, artist

1923–2012, active 1946–2012

mountainous cityscape with criss-crossing roads, circa 1960–1985

Where object was made: Haiti

Material/technique: Masonite™; paint

Credit line: Bequest of Jane Wofford Malin

Accession number: 2016.0173

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Born in the seaport of Jacmel, Duffaut was part of a cohort of painters associated with Port-au-Prince’s Centre d’Art, an educational institution and gallery founded in 1944 that became a hub for late 20th-century Haitian artists. Duffaut was best known for his works depicting villes imaginaires, or imaginary cities,often juxtaposing Haiti’s striking natural landscape with urban infrastructure. Just as Jean-Baptiste Pointe du Sable may have imagined the great city of Chicago, Duffaut imagined the vibrant, dynamic cities of Haiti.