MIAMI, FL (CUBAN ART NEWS).- Minutes after the opening of this year’s Art Basel Miami Beach fair, Cernuda Arte gallery sold Wifredo Lam’s 1944 painting Les Fiancés for $3 million, setting a new record for work by the artist. Cuban Art News spoke with Ramón Cernuda about the sale, Art Basel, and Cuban art. Congratulations on the sale of the Wifredo Lam painting. You must be thrilled. We’re very happy for that, yes. What can you tell us about the purchaser? He is a Cuban-American collector who wishes to remain anonymous—a person who owns an illustrious collection of Cuban art, and who is a very well-known figure in the Cuban American community. He is a person who has in the past been supportive of museums, and he has committed to lend the painting for museum exhibitions in the future. This is quite a moment for Lam. Just last month we reported on a new record for a painting of his sold at auction, and now comes this sale, at a considerably higher figure. Why is this happening now?