Pencil on paper signed by Wifredo Lam (Cuban, 1902–1982). He was a Cuban-born painter, draughtsman, and sculptor, born to a Chinese father and Afro-Cuban mother. . In 1923, Lam moved to Spain, where he remained until the late 1930s. While living there, he trained with reactionary painter Fernando Alvarez de Sotomayor , former instructor to famed Surrealist Salvador Dalí . After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, Lam left for Paris, where he met Pablo Picasso, who would became a lifelong friend and supporter of his work, and who introduced him to other established and successful artists working in France at the time. Lam became associated with the Surrealists after meeting André Breton.Upon his return to Cuba, Lam was inspired to create a series of works inspired by the plight of the Afro-Cuban population.The Jungle (1943) In 1946, Lam returned to Paris, eventually settling there in the early 1950s. His works are in the collections of numerous public and private institutions around the world, including The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Havana, and the Museum of Modern Art in Brussels.

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