Jacques-Enguerrand Gourgue

A Port-au-Prince native, Gourgue began painting at an early age and eventually had his works exhibited throughout Europe and the Americas.

The following year his painting "The Magic Table"—an "unprecedented picture"[3]—was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and it is still part of its permanent collection.

[2] In 1949, at the age of 18, he won the gold medal of an exhibition commemorating the bicentennial of the founding of Port au Prince.

The artist's intention is to force the viewer to meet him on the level of the subconscious, giving free rein to emotion and fantasy.

"[1] After his divorce he moved to his hometown, where he painted most of his later work, including a large mural that decorated the flag of Haiti in the Seville Expo of 1992.