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Fidelio Ponce de Len was the pseudonym of Alfredo Fuentes Pons, a Cuban painter. A native of Camagey, he studied at the San Alejandro Academy in Havana from 1913 until 1918. Along with Antonio Gattorno, Victor Manuel, Amelia Pelez, and Wifredo Lam, he is considered part of the Vanguardia movement in Cuban art however, unlike many of his contemporaries he never studied in Europe, and so had comparatively little contact with European modernism. Nevertheless, he listed among his influences Amedeo Modigliani, along with El Greco, Rembrandt, and Bartolom Esteban Murillo. His paintings are also reminiscent of those of Edvard Munch. Later in life Ponce de Len contracted tuberculosis he died in Havana onFebruary 1949. The Museum of Modern Art is among the museums containing examples of his work.

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