249. Le Grand Maitre
37.8x26.5
Despairing of ever owning a first-class Hyppolite, and wanting to fill a glaring hole in my collection, I commissioned this copy from an online enterprise that specializes in reproductions: galeriedada.com. The work was painted in and shipped to California from Vietnam -- for perhaps a tenth of one percent of the price the original would command if it ever went on the market.
Most of Hyppolite's paintings are representations of -- and tributes to -- the lwas (loas). Background is therefore unimportant: the focus is on the lwas and vodou elements.
The original is (or was) in the Mus�e d�Art Ha�tien du Coll�ge Saint-Pierre, Port-au-Prince.
(There is no enlargement of this reproduction.)
