Andrée G. Naudé was born in Belgium in 1904 and died in Haiti in 2003. She was schooled in Paris, where she devoted herself to painting. She attended several academies (Julian, Grande Chaumière, Scandinavia) and worked in the studios of well-known painters such as Waroquier, Fritz, and later André Lhote. Between 1928 and 1931, Naudé exhibited in Paris at the Salon des Tuileries, the Autumn Salon, with the Grand Morin painters, and in Greece with a group of young painters working in Paris. She had lived in Haiti since 1931 and established a studio in Tête de l'Eau, which has become a gathering place for many of the country's women painters. When the Art Center was created in 1944, she began participating in its exhibitions and also exhibited in Cap-Haitien with Tamara Baussan and Helen Schomberg. From 1963 to 1985, Naudé's work has been on permanent exhibit in numerous countries: Brazil, Chile, the Dominican Republic, the United States, and Canada, where a solo exhibition of her work, 50 Years of Painting, took place in 1978, inaugurated by Pierre Monosiet. Her work is also in various permanent collections in Haiti, notably at the Marassa and Mapou galleries. She has taken part in many exhibitions featuring female painters. (From La Peinture Haitienne/ Haitian Arts, Editions Nathan, Paris, pp. 55)