Annunciation

1958

Rigaud Benoit

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Rigaud Benoit

Artist, Haitian, 1911 - 1986

This painting shows two people with light brown skin and dark hair. On the left, a woman kneels in prayer, wearing a bright red garment with a white collar and a blue veil. She has a hoop earring in her ear and a rope tied around her waist. On the right, a person with white wings and a golden halo gestures toward her, standing and wearing a light blue garment with a brown cloth tied across their body. The two people are on a brown patch of ground by a large, brown, leafless tree, and around them is a lush landscape with trees, pink flowers, and small white sheep grazing.
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Provenance

Centre d’Art, Port-au-Prince; purchased 1961 by Rev. Newton Carlyle Spitz, Jr. [1931-2003];[1] (sale, Bonhams-Skinner,
Boston, Lot 16, November 17, 2022); Kay and Roderick Heller; gift 2023 to NGA.
[1] Inscription on the reverse reads N.C. SPITZ/PURCHASED/CENTRE D'ART/1961. Spitz was an Episcopalian priest from New York who served at Holy Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Port-au-Prince and was Director of the Centre d'Entrainement at Montrouis, Haiti.

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Inscriptions

lower right: R. Benoit / 31/1/58
reverse, in another hand: N.C. SPITZ/PURCHASED/CENTRE D'ART/1961

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