Jean-Claude Garoute "TIGA" (1936-2006) 24"x18" Imagination 2004 Acrylic on Canvas #1EB

This beautiful original painting is signed by the late famous Haitian master painter from the St Soleil Movement. It adds well with any decor! " A painter of animation, Garoute goes on experimenting in life and art" Get the Book "Peintres Haitiens" Now! Jean-Claude "Tiga" Garoute (December 9, 1935 – December 2006) was a famous Haitian painter and sculptor. Born in Jérémie, Garoute co-founded a museum of ceramic art in Haiti named Poto-Mitan. An abstract painter, he participated in art festivals throughout the world. Tiga and Maud Guerdes Robard founded the Saint-Soleil post-naïve school of Haitian painting. The school was born when they offered farmers in Soisson-La-Montagne, a rural area near Port-au-Prince, drawing and painting materials. Out of the movement came such painters as Levoy Exil, Louisiane Saint Fleurant, St-Jean, and Dieuseul Paul, to name a few. The movement drew the eye of French author André Malraux, who dedicated a chapter to it in his book L'Intemporel. Tiga also cr