File photos Wifredo Lam (Sagua La Grande, Las Villas, Cuba, 1902–Paris, France, 1982), a mixed-race Chinese-Afro-Cuban who was trained as an artist in Europe at a time, between WWI and WWII, when the most important vanguard artistic movements were developing, has become not only one of the most important painters of Caribbean and Latin American modernism/avant-garde, but also of international high modernism.