Magique Noir, 1946-47

Hyppolite, Hector (1894 – 1948)

Oil on board
25 1/2 × 37 1/2 in.
(64.77 × 95.25 cm)
Gift of Richard and Erna Flagg
ex. Senator Edward Brooke ( In 1966, he became the first African American popularly elected to the United States Senate. He represented Massachusetts in the Senate from 1967 to 1979. )

Publication History
Cosentino, Donald. Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou. Los Angeles, California: UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 1995, p. 175, fig. 5.33, color illus.
Milwaukee Art Museum. Hidden Treasures: Wisconsin Collects Painting and Sculpture. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Milwaukee Art Museum, 1987, pp. 64 and 118, cat. 105, b/w illus. p. 64.

Exhibition History Haiti: Two Centuries of Artistic Creation. Grand Palais, Paris, France, November 18, 2014–February 15, 2015. Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou, UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Los Angeles, October 22–July 16,1996; Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, September 19–December 1, 1996; Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, February 1–August 3, 1997; Museum of African American History, Detroit, October 8–December 27, 1997; New Orleans Museum of Art, February 1–April 12, 1998; Baltimore Museum of Art, June 7–August 23, 1998; American Museum of Natural History, New York, October 9, 1998–January 3, 1999. Hidden Treasures: Wisconsin Collects Painting and Sculpture, Milwaukee Art Museum, September 11–November 1, 1987.

Painting
Magique Noir, 1946-47