According to varying sources, Seymour Etienne Bottex was born December 24 or 25 in 1920 or 1922 in Northern Haiti. (1) He worked as a photographer until 1955 when his older brother Jean-Baptiste encouraged him to begin painting. He joined the Centre d'Art and later the Galerie Issa in Port-au-Prince. His paintings, mingling humorous, historical, and biblical themes, have been exhibited in the United States, England, France and Italy. He is considered one of the finest Haitian naive painters, and his murals in the Episcopal Cathedral de Sainte Trinité in Port-au-Prince are considered the most important achievement in Haitian modern art.

Paintings by Seymour Etienne Bottex have been sold by the Friends of HAS Ha...