Wilson Bigaud

[2] At the age of 15, he was introduced to DeWitt Peters (who in 1944 founded the Centre d'Art in Port-au-Prince) by Hector Hyppolite.

[2] Early on, he demonstrated his abilities, by quickly assimilating innovations of a sophisticated painter (balance, movement, rhythm, pattern, contrast, unity and emphasis).

[4] In 1950, at the age of 19, Bigaud won second place for a painting entitled Paradise, at an International Exhibition in Washington, D.C..

[6] In 1951, together with Castera Bazile, Philomé Obin, Préfète Duffaut, Toussaint Auguste and Rigaud Benoit, Bigaud decorated the walls of the Holy Trinity Cathedral (destroyed during the 2010 earthquake) of Port-au-Prince, by painting murals.

[4] His works are usually realistic dramatizations of native life, and he is considered as one of the major figures in Haitian painting.