Claude Phanord

Claude Phanord is a painter of the school of Cap-Haïtien, the town on the north coast of Haiti whose artists, in the tradition founded by Philomé Obin in the 1940s, paint the daily life of the streets, markets and villages of the north with careful drawing, flat clear colour and an even light. Like the other painters of the school he signs his pictures with his name and the name of the town.

His scenes of village life, with their yellow and pink houses, wells, vendors and passers-by, follow the Cap-Haïtien manner closely and belong to its second and third generation, active from the 1970s onwards.

The Phanord family has produced several painters in Cap-Haïtien, among them Eric Phanord (born 1955), a pupil of Antoine Obin; Claude Phanord’s own dates and his exact relationship to that family have not been documented in the published literature on Haitian art, and we would welcome any information from collectors.