his open-air paintings depicting marketplace activity and leisure pursuits
and architecture coexist in harmonious balance
inventive still life that turns everyday Haitian produce into playful portraiture
Everyone thought that it was ephemeral then
I know I could never go home
Dieudonne Vital 16"x12" Fishermen c1980 Oil on Canvas #2-2-95MFN Genres/Voodoo Scenes/Spiritual his open-air paintings depicting marketplaceBUY NOW this primitive painting signed by the Haitian artist, Dieudonne Vital. This painting represents a scene of fishermen in Haiti. It is an original oil on canvas, and dated circa 1980. Dieudonn Vital was born on September 28, 1924, in Jacmel, Haiti, and was the brother of renowned painter Pauleus Vital. Before turning to art, Vital served in the Haitian army beginning in 1945. It was his son, painter Maurice Vital, who introduced him to painting,