Cockfight

1962

Castera Bazile

Associated Names
Castera Bazile

Artist, Haitian, 1923 - 1966

This is a painting of a rural scene with individuals and chickens. The bottom of the painting depicts a group of six people gathered closely under a tree, observing two chickens on the ground. The people have dark brown skin and short black hair, and they wear shirts and trousers in bright shades of yellow, white, red, purple, blue, and green. One man on the left is shirtless and wearing a white hat. The people are all looking at the two thin chickens, which face each other in the dirt near the bottom left, their heads lowered. In the background on the left is a white house with a yellow straw-like roof and a black doorway with red and orange borders on the left and right. The landscape reveals bare, twisted trees on rolling green and brown hills under a vibrant blue sky. Another person can be seen in the distance on the right, standing on a hill, wearing yellow pants and a white shirt.
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Provenance

Aderson Exume, Washington, DC; purchased 6 October 2019 by Beverly and John Fox Sullivan, Little Washington, VA; gift 2023 to NGA.

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Inscriptions

lower right: Castera Bazile / 26 - 4 - 62


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