Lyonel Laurenceau 30"x24" Young Women Having Lunch 1991 Acrylic on Canvas Unframed Painting #2FC 30"x20" Girault met the Maurice Brothers

Girault met the Maurice Brothers (Haitian Sculptors)

He began to paint as a student of both Calixte Henri in 1973 and Raymond Olivier

Néhémy Jean

His pronouncements on Vodou and life generally were wise and sophisticated and often punctuated with his trademark subterranean chuckle

The elevated   perspective reveals successive bands of cultivated land

Lyonel Laurenceau 30"x24" Young Women Having Lunch 1991 Acrylic on Canvas Unframed Painting #2FC 30"x20" Girault met the Maurice BrothersThis refined figurative composition by Haitian artist Lyonel Laurenceau depicts two young women seated together at a table enjoying a quiet lunch. Painted in 1991, the work combines portraiture and still life within Laurenceaus distinctive structured composition. The figures, wearing wide brimmed hats, appear engaged in a calm and intimate moment while fruit, flowers, and ceramic vessels are arranged on the table before them. Laurenceau organizes the