Toussaint Auguste

Toussaint Auguste, born in Leogane in 1925, is said to have been active in the Episcopal Diocese as a lay reader and a teacher before becoming a painter in the late 1940s.  He was among the early painters working at the Centre d'Art in Port-au-Prince.  Considered one of the First Generation Masters, examples of his work can be found in many museums--including the permanent collections of the Musee d'Art Haitien du College Saint Pierre in Port-au-Prince and the Milwaukee Museum of Art--and in most books on Haitian art.

Toussaint Auguste is represented in the Cathedral of Sainte Trinite in Port-au-Prince with the murals "Flight into Egypt" and "The Temptation of Adam and Eve."  Following their execution, he moved to the United States, where he presently resides.

Publications:
Rodman, Selden.  Renaissance in Haiti.  1948.  Dust jacket illustration, frontispiece, pg. 132.
Demme, Jonathan.  Island on Fire.  1997.  pp. 56, 57.

Selected Toussaint Auguste Links:
Murals at Cathedral of Sainte Trinite
Cleveland Museum of Art
The Haitian Art Collection
Galerie Macondo
Shirley Allen

The Lost Lamb, Dated 8/55 [August 1955] 20 x 24 inches, Oil on Masonite, Framed $ 6,500

The Lost Lamb was one of 25 Haitian paintings from this collection that were exhibited in the show Life in Bold Colors at Sonoma State University in 2007.

Detail from The Lost Lamb