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Herve Telemaque

Herve Telemaque (1937 - 2022) was active/lived in Haiti, France.  Herve Telemaque is known for Painting and sculpture.

Hervé Télémaque (born on November 5, 1937 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti), is a French painter of Haitian origin, associated with the surrealism and the narrative figuration movements. He lived and worked in Paris since 1961. He passed away on November 10, 2022.

Following a health problem, he had to give up his hopes of competing in sports. In 1957, when François Duvalier came to power, he left Haiti for New York and joined the Art Student's League until 1960, when his teacher, the painter Julian Levi, encouraged his artistic vocation. During his stay in the United States, where he frequents museums, he was simultaneously intellectually nourished by abstract expressionism, then surrealism, as used and reinterpreted by American artists (De Kooning, Lam, etc.), and in particular by the influence of Arshile Gorky. As early as 1959, his painting entitled Sirène (Musée Sainte-Croix) marked his uniqueness. Hervé Télémaque wants to be reality-based and escape abstraction: even the tit   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 9611 characters.]  Artist bio

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