[t.a.]Wifredo Lam began studying in Havana and then in Madrid and Barcelona. In Paris he had the opportunity to work with Picasso put in contact with André Breton. From this moment Lam joined the surrealist movement. In 1951 he received his first prize (gold medal) at the National Fair of Havana, in 1953 the Gold Medal Award Lissone.

"To himself everyone must learn to drop the masks and first of all those taken into prestito.Nell 'winter of 1923, Lam, a Cuban couple of twenty-two years old, arrives in Madrid to try everything that L' is not Havana managed to obtain: a form of painting that is not simple craft, a modernity of which will soon notice, even in this city, the narrow provincialism, an ambition to be a painter in the style of the absolute masters in the Prado and admired the first among all migrants like him: El Greek. For fifteen years, at different times, he learned the trade of painter, has deeply assimilated the lessons of the Academy and then Cézanne, Matisse and Picasso. For the purposes of the old colonial painting in vogue in Cuba, which do not meet, would have replaced other, more modern cut, but equally fictitious. It was not until 1935, when his work is still evident influences are more direct, clear, nell'accentuazione of the picture in "La ventana I "and the autonomy of the line compared to the vibration of color, the first signs of this unique language that will be established only in 1940. In the course of five years (1935-1940), crucial for the development of the work, it implements this writing only to be later identified with the name Lam .........."