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About this work

You see a small black-and-white woodcut of a woman carrying a basket on her head, walking past a thatched hut. Bigaud made this when he was only sixteen, part of a rare set of prints by self-taught Haitian artists in the 1940s. The lines are rough but full of life—every mark feels like it was cut quickly, as if the scene was still moving in his memory. To see more work from this moment, look up the technique: woodcut.