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Jacques-Enguérrand Gourgue

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Institutional Exhibitions
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Works in Collection
4
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Naive Painting: A Selection from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1972
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American Prints of the 20th Century
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1954
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Recent Acquisitions
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1952
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Why this artist matters now

Jacques-Enguérrand Gourgue was a Haitian painter whose work engaged with Caribbean visual traditions and questions of cultural identity in the postwar period. Working from the 1950s onward, he developed a distinctive approach that drew from Haiti's artistic heritage while responding to the social and political currents of his time. His paintings inhabited a space between modernist abstraction and figuration rooted in Haitian experience.

Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 25d ago

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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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Group ExhibitionNaive Painting: A Selection from the Museum Collection
New York · 1972
Group ExhibitionAmerican Prints of the 20th Century
New York · 1954
Group ExhibitionRecent Acquisitions
New York · 1952