Louverture Poisson was born in Les Cayes on September 14, 1914. He came to Port-au-Prince in 1942 to enlist in the Air Force and served as an airplane mechanic. He joined the Centre d’Art in 1945, and had a one man show there in March, 1955. He painted with what DeWitt Peters described as the world’s most recalcitrant medium, common house enamel.? One of his early paintings, "Toilette Paysanne", depicting a bare breasted woman fixing her hair in front of a mirror, is said to have inspired many primitive artists to try their hand at painting. He died in 1984.