photograph reproduced from Haitian Art: The Legend and Legacy of the Naive Tradition by L.G. Hoffman, Davenport Art Gallery, 1985
Montas Antoine was born in Leogane on December 14, 1926. He joined the
famous Centre d'Art in 1951, while still serving as a soldier in the Haitian
army. He turned to painting full-time in 1960. One of the great Haitian
intuitive painters, Antoine's work has been exhibited widely, and is now
included in the permanent collections of the Musee d'Art Haitien du College
Saint Pierre in Port-au-Prince, the Milwaukee Museum of Art, the Wadsworth
Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut, and the New Orleans Museum of Art. His work
is represented in the major private collections, including the Demme collection
(the catalog of which, Island on Fire provided the biogrophical information
above). Antoine's work is included in Where Art is Joy by Selden Rodman, and
Haitian Art and Kunst aus Haiti by Ute Stebich, among other works. Montas
Antoine died in 1988.
