Geoffrey Holder valuation
Trinidad-born dancer, actor and director who was also a prolific painter and won a Guggenheim Fellowship in fine arts.
Geoffrey Holder (1930–2014) was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, and made his debut at seven in the dance company of his older brother, the painter and dancer Boscoe Holder.
What a work by Geoffrey Holder is worth
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Bio
Geoffrey Holder (1930–2014) was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, and made his debut at seven in the dance company of his older brother, the painter and dancer Boscoe Holder. Invited to New York by the choreographer Agnes de Mille, he taught at Katherine Dunham's school, danced as a principal with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet in 1955 and 1956, and went on to a long career on stage and screen: he won two Tony Awards, for directing The Wiz and for its costumes, and played Baron Samedi in the James Bond film Live and Let Die. Throughout, he was a prolific painter, mostly of figures and portraits of Black men and women, and in 1956 he won a Guggenheim Fellowship in fine arts. In 2024 Victoria Miro in London showed his paintings alongside his brother's.
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