Gérard Paul
( Haitian, born 1943 )
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Gerard Paul was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on October 9, 1943. By the time he was six years old, both of his parents had died and he was raised, in meager circumstances, by his godmother.
By age 14 he was apprenticed to a carpenter and then to a bricklayer but finally he became a house painter. At the end of 1963 he went to work as a houseboy at the German Embassy in Port-au-Prince. Soon after, he did his first painting and showed it to the wife of the Ambassador, Mdme. Malsy-Minsk. Eventually he took his paintings to the Galerie Monnin, with which he was associated in 1973, and rapidly became a favorite of collectors worldwide. He won first prize in the “Masters of the Dew” painting competition in 1978.
In the early 1980's Gerard Paul moved to the United States where he eventually stopped painting altogether.
Exhibitions
1972 Seraphine Gallery, Paris
Published in
Nadal, Marie-Jose and Gerald Bloncourt. 1986. La Peinture Haitienne, Haitian Arts. Paris: Editions Nathan