Luce Turnier was born in Jacmel on February 24, 1924 and died in
Paris in 1995. In 1937 her family came to Port-au-Prince after the hurricane
which ravaged the south of Haiti. She joined the Art Center in 1945 and
exhibited for the first time in 1946, with Maurice Borno. She was granted
several scholarships (Rockefeller Foundation, N.Y., 1967; French government,
1951; Haitian government, 1952). In 1953 her work was exhibited in Boon. Bremen
and Hamburg. In 1954 she married the Italian painterEugenio Carpi de Resmini,
with whom she has two children. Her second husband, the French painter
Christian Lemesle, whom she married in 1965; has had a strong influence on her
worth and technical development. After several exhibitions, she became interested
in collage in 1967. Since her return to Haiti in 1972 she has become
increasingly famous within the country and overseas. In 1978 she exhibited at
the French Institute of Haiti and participated in various exhibits of women
painters. (Biographical source: Marie-José Nadal & Gérald Bloncourt, 1986,
La Peinture Haitienne/ Haitian Arts, Editions Nathan, Paris).
