ID 1304130
Lot 36 | WIFREDO LAM (1902-1982)
Estimate value
$ 100 000 – 150 000
Femme
signed and dated 'Wifredo Lam 4-8-42' (lower right)
gouache and graphite on paper
41 ¾ x 33 in. (106 x 83.8 cm.)
Executed in 1942.
Provenance
Galerie Pierre, Paris
Anon. sale; Francis Briest, Paris, 10 April 1989, lot 33
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner
Literature
L. Laurin-Lam and E. Lam, Wifredo Lam: Catalogue Raisonné of the Painted Work, Volume I, 1923-1960, 1996, n. 42.118, p. 323 (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, Albert Loeb Gallery, Lam: Paintings from 1938-1962, 1962.
Switzerland, Basel Kunsthalle; Hannover, Germany, Kestner-Gesellschaft; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; Stockholm, Moderna Museet; Brusels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Wifredo Lam, Malerei: Vic, Gentils, Bildhauerei, 1966-1967, n. 11.
Geneva, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Art du XXe siècle, 28 June-23 September 1973.
New York, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Wifredo Lam and His Contemporaries, 1938-1952, 6 December 1992-11 April 1993, n. 11, p. 109 (illustrated in color).
Miami Art Museum, Wifredo Lam in North America, 8 February-18 May 2008, p. 51 (illustrated in color).
Miami, de la Cruz Collection, Force and Form, December 2017-November 2018.
Miami, de la Cruz Collection, More/Less, 4 December 2018-1 November 2019.
Miami, de la Cruz Collection, From Day to Day, December 2019-November 2020.
Miami, de la Cruz Collection, Together, at the Same Time, 29 November-4 December 2022.
Miami, de la Cruz Collection, House in Motion/New Perspectives, December 2023-March 2024.
Artist: | Wifredo Lam (1902 - 1982) |
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Applied technique: | Gouache, Graphite |
Medium: | Acrylic glass, Paper, Plastic, Stone |
Art style: | Modern art |
Place of origin: | Cuba |
Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Drawings, Watercolors and drawings |
Artist: | Wifredo Lam (1902 - 1982) |
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Applied technique: | Gouache, Graphite |
Medium: | Acrylic glass, Paper, Plastic, Stone |
Art style: | Modern art |
Place of origin: | Cuba |
Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Drawings, Watercolors and drawings |
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