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Haitian painter

Préfète Duffaut (1 January 1923 – 6 October 2012)^[1] was a Haitianpainter.

Biography

Born in Cyvadier, Sud-Est, near the seaport of Jacmel, where he lived and worked.^{[citation needed]} The painter Pauleus Vital (1918–1984) was Duffaut's half-brother, the painter Jean Charles Duffaut (*1970) is his son. Duffaut's mother died when he was two years old, and he was mostly raised by his father, a sailboat builder in Jacmel.^[2]

In 1944, he introduced himself to Rigaud Benoit who was then visiting Jacmel as a talent scout fro the recently created Centre d'Art of Port-au-Prince.^[2] In 1948, encouraged by Bill Kraus - an American journalist and artist livin Prefete Duffaut | Chicago Gallery of Haitian Art PAQE