Luckner Lazard was born In Port-au-Prince, Haiti on July 7, 1928, and died in Jacmel in 1998. From 1945 to 1950, he studied painting and sculpture at the Centre d’Art under the direction of Dewitt Peters, Albert Mangones, Lucien Price, and John Seley before receiving a scholarship in 1951 to study in Paris, France.Lazard came back to Haiti and settled in Carrefour, where he hosted a gathering of artists every Friday and Saturday. In 1956, It was at one of these gatherings that the group, consisting of the noted artists Dieudonné Cédor, Roland Dorcely, Jean-Claude Garoute, (Ti-Ga), Jacques Gabriel and Néhémy Jean conceived the idea of opening their gallery, the Brochette Gallery. These sophisticated artists were looking to distance themselves from the naive painters and the “Foyer des Arts Plastiques”. Lazard managed the gallery for several years and then settled in NY in 1977. Lazard was awarded the first prize in a contest sponsored by Pan American Airways, National Tourist Office, and by the Alcoa Steamship Co. His works belong in many private collections throughout the world. Lazard exhibited in Europe, the Caribbean, North America, and Brazil, namely at Galerie Nader and Musée d’Art Nader, the French Institute in Mexico, the Zegri Gallery in New York, and, in 1976, the Paul Robeson Multimedia Center in Washington, D.C.Lazard was a modern artist painting scenes from Haitian life such as cockfighting, fishermen, and merchants. In his art book “Peintres Haitiens” the author, Gérald Alexis states, “ Against a peculiar and highly personal blue background, Lazard draws arabesque inspired by forms occurring in Haitian life”.