| Born 1926 in Port-au-Prince. Valcin began to paint when he was introduced to the Centre d’Art by his brother, the late painter, Gerard Valcin in 1959. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Musée d’Art Haitien, the Davenport (Iowa) Museum of Art and the Waterloo (Iowa) Museum of Art, and the New Orleans Museum of Art. It is published in Haitian Arts (Nadal-Gardere and Bloncourt, 1986), Haiti: Art Naif, Art Vodou (1988), Dialogue du Réel et de l’Imaginaire (1990), Haiti: Actualities and Belief (Roche, 1990), Island on Fire (Demme, 1997). Pierre-Joseph passed away in 2000. |
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