Robert Saint-Brice (1893-1973) 53"x28" Spirit of the Sacred Bird 1956 Oil on Board Unframed Painting #1RA Artists/Weiner Dimitri inviting viewers into a world

inviting viewers into a world of quiet reflection and natural grace

a leading artist associated with the Centre d’Art in Port-au-Prince

Stylistically

or twentieth-century Latin American and Caribbean painting

exhibited his art in several countries

Robert Saint-Brice (1893-1973) 53"x28" Spirit of the Sacred Bird 1956 Oil on Board Unframed Painting #1RA Artists/Weiner Dimitri inviting viewers into a worldThis original oil on board by Haitian Vodou priest and visionary painter Robert St. Brice (Ption Ville, 1893 1973), signed and dated 1956, measures 53 x 28 in and comes unframed. A commanding bird like spirit fills the composition, its single piercing eye set within a feathered head that dissolves into a cascade of richly layered plumage in blues, ochres, and deep reds. The image has the hallmarks of St. Brice's finest work, a presence rendered not