Gervais Emmanuel Ducasse was born in 1903 in
Port-au-Prince. He came from a middle class background and received, compared
with the majority of Haitian artists, an excellent formal education. He became
an agriculture agent for the government, giving him the opportunity to travel
extensively in Haiti. He even visited the United states several times. He
worked for the government until 1948, losing his job due to a lack of funding.
Forced to find a new profession, he turned to painting, which had been an
interest since the age of four. His work is included in the permanent
collections of the Musée d’Art Haitien and the Milwaukee Museum of Art, and is
published in Where Art is Joy (Rodman, 1988), Peintres Haitiens (Gerald Alexis)
and Haitian Art (Ute Stebich, 1978). Ducasse passed away in 1988. Bio info
taken primarily from Haitian Art (Stebich).
