Marie-José Nadal-Gardère (22 April 1931 – 23 December 2020) was a Haitian painter and sculptor. Born in

Port-au-Prince Port-au-Prince ( ; ; , ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Haiti, most populous city of Haiti. The city's population was estimated at 1,200,000 in 2022 with the metropolitan area estimated at a population of 2,618,894. The me ...

, Nadal-Gardère studied in

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and later

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, where she learned ceramics and metal sculpting. Her works have been exhibited throughout

, the

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, the

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, and western

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. She was the owner of the Marassa Gallery in

Pétion-Ville Pétion-Ville (; ) is a commune and a suburb of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in the hills east and separate from the city itself on the northern hills of the Massif de la Selle. Founded in 1831 by president Jean-Pierre Boyer, it was named after Alexa ...

, a suburb of Port-au-Prince. Nadal-Gardère died on 23 December 2020, at the age of 89.

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* 1931 births 2020 deaths 20th-century Haitian painters 20th-century Haitian sculptors 20th-century Haitian women artists Haitian sculptors Haitian women painters Haitian women sculptors 21st-century women artists People from Port-au-Prince {{Caribbean-sculptor-stub