Sequins and beads on fabric
(36" x 27") c.1996

Ex. Collection of Dr. Jacques Bartoli.

Sequins and beads on fabric
(31" x 24") c.2000

Ex. Collection of Dr. Jacques Bartoli.

Fon, Benin, late 20th century
Wood with red, green, yellow, black, white oil paints, nylon string (18"h. x 6 1/2"w. x 8" d.).  Snake in pot is operable by pulling string.  
Ex. collection of Nancy Josephson.  Purchased by collector in Benin, c.2000.

Sequins and beads on fabric (18" x 16"),
c.1980's/1990's.  Signature "CB" at bottom, front.

Provenance: from private collection.

Maxon Scylla. Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Sequins and beads on fabric (23” x 30 1/4”) c.1995-2000
Note: Acquired by current owner between 1995 and 2000. Proceeds from sale to be applied to the benefit of the Haitian non-profit organization Fonkoze.

(Port-au-Prince)
Sequins and beads on fabric
(31 1/2 x 24) c.2009

Ex. collection of the late Marilyn Houlberg.

(Port-au-Prince)
Oil on canvas (23 1/2" x 15 1/4"), Framed.
c.2010

(Port-au-Prince)
Sequins and beads on fabric (19 1/2" x 21 1/2"),
c.2014
This flag is extremely densely beaded and sequinned (and thus extremely heavy), in the manner of the artists Constant and Simeon.

Menos
Sequins and beads on fabric
(27.5" x 28.5") c.2010

Ex. Collection of Dr. Jacques Bartoli.

Huichol yarn painting by anonymous Huichol Artist in the style of Ramon Medina Silva.  Actual authorship unclear.
Nayarit, Mexico, c. 1970
Yarn pressed into beeswax on plywood
(16 1/2" x 20 1/4")

From a private collection.  Originally purchased in the 1970s from the Mexican Art Annex on 56th St., New York.  The store was owned by Annie Felshin O'Neill, who led collecting trips to Mexico for Nelson Rockefeller.  After Rockefeller's death she was in charge of putting his huge folk art collection into two museums - in San Francisco and San Antonio.

Oshogbo, Nigeria, c.2007
Hammered aluminum relief
(20" h. x 16” w).

Unknown artist. Jacmel, Haiti.
Painted papier maché and cow-horn (24 1/2" h. x 22 1/2” w. x 11” d.) c. 1989.
Ex. collection of Rudi Stern.

Note: this is a vintage piece collected over thirty years ago, and displayed by the collector.  Some wear and chipping of paint is to be expected.

By Gerald Bernado, Croix des Bouquets, Haiti.  c.2005
Steel from recycled steel oil-drums (17 1/2" x 11 1/2” x 7 1/2”)

Abraão Batista (Juareiro do Norte, Ceara, Brazil)
Woodcut print on paper (image 13" x 21"), #5/50, 1985

By artist S.D., Haiti.
Sequins and beads on fabric 17" x 17"), c.1995 - 2000
Note:  Acquired by current owner between 1995 and 2000. Proceeds from sale to be applied to the benefit of the Haitian non-profit organization Fonkoze.