| Henri-Robert Bresil was born in Gonaives, Haiti, September 19, 1952 and died
violently in 1999. Bresil settled in Port-au-Prince in 1973 and painted his first
works, beginning a career as a world-renowned painter. After receiving the Ispan-Unesco
prize in 1981, he exhibited in all the major galleries in Haiti, and abroad in the
U.S., Puerto Rico, Japan, France, Italy, and Switzerland. As a landscape painter,
Bresil is much appreciated by art lovers and collectors, and his work has been praised
in the New York Times, Miami Herald, and Hostess Magazine, among other publications. |
