Jacques-Enguerrand Gourgue (1930-1996) 36"x28" Seats At The Ceremony (Vodou Scene) 1960-1970 Oil on Board Painting #10-SM 24"X36" Sisson Blanchard was born in

Sisson Blanchard was born in Trouin

Set against a cool mountain backdrop beneath a luminous sky

in 1929 and died in 1978

As the spiritual parents of the priesthood she and her husband are two of the Loa involved in the kanzo rites in which the Priest/ess-to-be is given the asson (sacred rattle and tool of the priesthood)

Jacques-Enguerrand Gourgue (1930-1996) 36"x28" Seats At The Ceremony (Vodou Scene) 1960-1970 Oil on Board Painting #10-SM 24"X36" Sisson Blanchard was born inSeats at the Ceremony by J. E. Gourgue is a powerful Haitian Vodou composition centered around a sacred tree surrounded by empty ceremonial chairs, ritual vessels, offerings, and symbolic objects. Executed in Gourgues distinctive surrealist style, the painting evokes the spiritual atmosphere of a Vodou gathering suspended between the visible and invisible worlds. The dramatic opening within the tree trunk glows with fiery red and orange tones,