Louis Vassor was born in Port-de-Paix on December 20, 1888, and died in Port-au-Prince on August 15, 1968. He started his classical studies in his hometown. His classical studies continued in Port-au-Prince at the Saint Louis de Gonzague institution, where he received his first lessons in painting and drawing. His father's death in 1902 forced him to return to the North West. Having established himself shortly after in Saint Louis du Nord, he founded a small drawing and painting school where classes were free, with the collaboration of another painter, Alfred Austin. He was a moved witness to the significant events that marked the beginnings of the Haitian 20th century, attentive to the resistance of the cases to the epic of Charlemagne Peralta. Appointed in the 1920s as a photographer at the Haitian consulate in Santiago de Cuba, he witnessed the great migration of cane cutters. President Vincent chose him as director of the Port-au-Prince Learning Center. He then deepened his knowledge of craftsmanship. He learned frame weaving and various techniques for using latanier leaves. He returned to Port-de-Paix in 1946, where he was appointed assistant inspector and then inspector in the labor office of this city. He took advantage of his visit to create a school for adults at his own expense. He was also to open a small painting school for young people where Clerveaux Auguste, Ambert Saint-Doux, Anthony Vassor, and his nephew, among others, were trained. (Source: Haiti et Ses Peintres de 1804-1980-Souffrances et Espoirs d'un Peuple, by Michel Philippe Lerebours, 1989 pp. 404) Louis Vassor's art is unique and scarce in the art marketplace.