Artist from Haiti - Wilson Bigaud

This is now in the permanent collection of the Museum Of Modern Art in New York City. That same year he painted, "The Wedding at Cana", a true masterpiece. It was one of the murals on the walls at the Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Port-au-Prince. Bigaud portrayed the miracle of changing the water into wine in a true Haitian setting. Unfortunately, the murals were distroyed in the earthquake of Jan.12, 2010.

Bigaud suffered from depression almost all his life. In 1957 he stopped painting entirely and withdrew from public life. He entered a mental institution for a period of time and then returned to a very private life with his family in Petit-Goave. DeWitt Peters believed that Bigaud became depressed because he was "obsessed with losing his gift". Many of his friends believed that he made a pact with a houngan - a voodoo priest to preserve his talent. When Bigaud resumed painting in the sixties, his canvasses were darker and had lost some of the majesty of his earlier works. Bigaud's works reflected his everyday experiences, from women at the market to celebrating a wedding, from violence to voodoo. He was, without question, one of the most prominent figures in Haitian Art and one of the true Master's in the Haitian art world. He passed away at home in Petit Goave.