Ralph Chapoteau 30"x24" L'Escalier/ The Stairs Acrylic on Masonite #1EB Genres/Portrait Scenes/Figurative Inspired by Wilson Bigaud

Inspired by Wilson Bigaud

including the Festival of Black Art in Dakar (1966) and Expo 67 in Montreal

typically embroidered and decorated with beads and sequins

He returned to Bogotá in 1995 on the occasion of an exhibition of a drawing series at the Luis Ángel Arango Library

Ralph Chapoteau 30"x24" L'Escalier/ The Stairs Acrylic on Masonite #1EB Genres/Portrait Scenes/Figurative Inspired by Wilson BigaudIncredible how the artist composed the setting for one to focus on the dove on top of the stairs! Can you see the dove? Ralph Chapoteau is a well known Haitian painter born on September 16, 1954, in Gonaives, Haiti and died in May 2024. He attended the Fine Arts Academy in 1974. His work was first exhibited in 1978 and showed throughout the Caribbean, including Haiti, Santo Domingo, and Guadeloupe. He married Josette Chapoteau in 2002, who has