Alfredo Ramón Jesús de la Paz Pons Fuentes Pons

Cuban painter. He began his studies at the Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes San Alejandro in 1915 but never completed them due to his bohemian nature.

He dedicated himself to teaching painting classes to poor children in towns near La Habana, painting advertisements for movies and cigars, among many other things.

By 1930, the year he returned to Cuba's capital, he was already an alcoholic and suffering from tuberculosis. He managed to organize a personal exhibition of oils and drawings and presented it at the Lyceum de la Habana.

His oils had a mixture of elongated figures, monochromatism, abstractions that touched on themes of religion, illness, and death.

With his painting "Paisaje" he exhibited at the XVII Salón de Bellas Artes held in 1934. Also around that time he painted "Tuberculosis" and "Beatas," winner of one of the prizes at the Exposición Nacional de Pintura y Escultura of 1935.

He obtained recognition and prestige in his career but his gypsy soul called him again in 1943, which did not prevent one of his paintings: "San Ignacio de Loyola" from participating in the exhibition of Pintores Modernos Cubanos at the Museo de Arte Moderno de New York in 1944.

He also participated at the Palacio de Bellas Artes de México in 1946, in the Segunda Exposición de Pintores Cubanos at the Museo de Bellas Artes de Buenos Aires in the same year, and in 1947 in the exhibition: Cuban Modern Paintings in Washington Collections.

In 1949 a commemorative exhibition of his work was organized at the Lyceum and another in 1995 on the occasion of the centenary of his birth organized by the Museo Nacional (Palacio de Bellas Artes) de La Habana.