 In 1943 he painted "The Jungle", which is considered to be among the masterpieces of Cuban art.Amelia Peláez (1896 - 1968) was the sole major female artist of the vanguardia.A San Alejandro graduate, she studied and worked for several years in Paris, where, prior to her return to Havana in 1934, she absorbed the influence of Henri Matisse and, especially, the Cubism of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.