Wilson Bigaud Haitian, b. 1931

Bigaud is one of the most important Haitian artists. Born in Port-au-Prince, he started as a sculptor in clay before turning to painting. He enrolled at the Centre d'Art in Port-au-Prince and painted under Maurice Borno. A painting entitled `Paradise' won second prize at an International Exhibition in Washington in 1950 and is now in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. In the same year he painted his masterpiece `The Wedding of Cana', a mural in the Episcopal Cathedral in Port-au-Prince