Hector hyppolite
Biography
Hector Hyppolite is a Haitian painter , born onin Saint-Marc , died on.
Hector Hyppolite’s painting career began in the summer of 1945 and ended with the artist’s death inDiscovered and encouraged by Dewitt Peters, the founder of the Port-au-Prince Art Center , Hyppolite painted more than 200 canvases during this period. André Breton and Wifredo Lam , passing through Port-au-Prince inThey bought several of his works, contributing to his international recognition and the dissemination of Haitian folk painting . His daughter married the painter Rigaud Benoit .
He later exhibited in more than 57 countries, including the United States, Japan, Israel, and several in Europe. He was welcomed in Nancy and then in Paris at the National Galleries of the Grand Palais for the 1988 exhibition “Art Naïf, Art Vaudou.
Awarded the Millennium Medal in 2000 at the Salon d’Art Plastique in La Rochelle, he has also maintained a strong presence in the United States and Japan, and he recently took part in the prestigious 44th edition of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington.
Despite his international success, Levoy Exil has not abandoned the simple life he loves; today, he divides his time between teaching his passion and painting. He also exhibited in 2009 at the Musée du Montparnasse in Paris for the exhibition “The Last Journey of André Malraux in Haiti.