![]() After finding he disliked the kind of academic tutelage he was receiving in Havana, he made his way to Spain, to Madrid to study under Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor y Zaragoza, a teacher of Salvador Dalí. He took himself to Havana, initially in obedience to his parent’s counsel to study law, but became entranced by painting. ![]() ![]() He was born in Cuba in the tiny town of Sagua la Grande at the turn of the 2oth century to a Chinese father and Congolese-Iberian mother. Now seems a perfect moment to celebrate the life and work of Wifredo Lam, a gifted painter with a backstory ripe for a Lionsgate film biopic.
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