Luckner Lazard

Luckner Lazard was born in Port-au-Prince on July 7, 1928.   From 1945 to 1950, Lazard studied painting and sculpture at the Centre d’ Art.  There he studied painting and sculpture under Dewitt Peters, Borno and Mangones.  He exhibited in 1945 in Havana, Cuba and also participated in 1946 at the group exhibit held by "Unesco" at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris.

In 1950 he founded the Foyer des Arts Plastiques with Cedor, Price etc. A year later, in 1951, he received a scholarship and moved to Paris where he studied for two years. In 1953, he moved back to Haiti. From 1953 to 1956 he exhibited at the French Institute in Mexico, the Zegri Gallery in New York and the Condado Beach Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Luckner is the founder of the "Brochette" Gallery in 1956 with Dieudonne Cedor, Nehemy Jean and Roland Dorcely. He emigrated  from Haiti in 1967 to the USA.

Luckner Lazard died in 1998.

Exhibitions

1976 Paul Robeson Multimedia Center, Washington, D.C.

1979 Eaton Hall of Arts, Montreal

1978 The French Institute, Haiti

Published

Nadal, Marie-Jose and Gerald Bloncourt. 1986. La Peinture Haitienne, Haitian Arts. Paris: Editions Nathan