HERVE TELEMAQUE (Haitian/French /
1937-)
Hervé Télémaque was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti in 1937. After studying at the school of naïve painting in Port-au-Prince, Télémaque furthered his studies at the Art Students' League in New York, under Julian Levi. In the USA he also came under the influence of the art of Arshile Gorky and Willem de Kooning. The art of Hervé Télémaque can be understood in terms of the wider art movements of his time, such as CoBrA and Pop Art, reinforced by his own sense of "négritude", in which his Haitian heritage is blended into the mix of European and American influences, much as Wifredo Lam had done with his Cuban background a generation earlier. See: Philippe Curval, Hervé Télémaque: Oeuvres d'après nature (1995, the catalogue of a retrospective at the Éspace Electra, Paris).
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Selected prints by
HERVE TELEMAQUE
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Untitled composition,
1979
Lithograph |
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Untitled composition,
1964
Lithograph |
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L'Enigme,
1982
Lithograph |
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HERVE TELEMAQUE
