Despite being one of the principal art critics of the first half of the Cuban 20th century as well as one of the intellectuals who accompanied José Lezama Lima (1910-1976) in the drawing up of the Orígenes group’s aesthetic programme, Guy François Pérez Cisneros Bonnel (Paris, 1915-Havana, 1953), is perhaps the less known author of that period. The son of a Cuban consul in France – who also cultivated painting – and a mother from Toulouse, Guy studied until senior high school in France. He arrived in Cuba in 1933 and his vast intellectual curiosity led him to simultaneously study Philosophy and Letters and Diplomatic Law and, sometime later, he also enrolled in the Manuel Márquez Sterling School of Journalism. Compared to Lezama, whom he met a short time after his arrival, he took very seriously his juridical studies. His