Castera Bazile was born in 1924 and died in 1966. He began to paint in 1945, and painted three of the Holy Trinity in 1951. He won the first prize in the Caribbean International Competition organized by Alcoa in 1955 and a special first prize in an international exposition sponsored by Holiday Magazine in 1957. His figures are often outlined. He has been exhibited in the U.S. and Europe. Bazile was very religious and probably equally at home in the Catholic faith and in voodoo. He became seriously ill with T. B. in 1962 and virtually stopped painting before he died in 1966. (source: Haiti Voodoo Kingdom to Modern Riviera by John Allen Franciscus, 1980)