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WIFREDO LAM (1902-1982)

Lot 369
18.11.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 369 | WIFREDO LAM (1902-1982)
Estimate value
$ 150 000 – 200 000
WIFREDO LAM (1902-1982)
Coq des Caraïbes, I
signed, dated and inscribed 'Wifredo Lam 1945 Cuba' (lower left)
gouache on canvas
16 1/8 x 19 ¾ in. (41 x 50.2 cm.)
Painted in 1945




Provenance

Galerie Albert Loeb, New York.
André Breton, Paris.
Private collection, Rome.
Galerie Krugier & Cie., Geneva.
Private collection, Paris; sale, Sotheby's, New York, 29 May 1997, lot 34.
Galerie Fabien Boulakia, Paris.
Acquired from the above by Max and Cecile Draime, 1998.



Literature

M. Leiris, Wifredo Lam, Milan, 1970, no. 60 (illustrated).
M.-P. Fouchet, "Wifredo Lam" in Poligrafa/Cercle d'Art, 1976, p. 234, no. 393 (illustrated).
"Wifredo Lam" in Cinmaise, 1985, no. 177, p. 20 (illustrated in color).
M.-P. Fouchet, Wifredo Lam, Paris, 1989, p. 254, no. 425 (illustrated).
L. Laurin-Lam, Wifredo Lam: Catalogue Raisonné of the Painted Work, 1923-1960, Lausanne, 1996, vol. I, pp. 374 and 512, no. 45.26 (illustrated, p. 374).
L.S. Sims, Wifredo Lam and the International Avant-Garde, 1923-1982, Austin, 2002, p. 125.



Exhibited

Port-au-Prince, Centre d'Art Galerie, Lam, 1946.
Geneva, Galerie Krugier & Cie., Wifredo Lam, April 1963, n.p., no. 11 (titled Cuba).
Basel, Kunsthalle, Wifredo Lam Malerei, Vic Gentils Bildhauerei, September-October 1966, n.p., no. 25 (titled Animal caraïbe).
Hanover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Wifredo Lam, December 1966-January 1967.
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; Stokholm, Moderna Museet; Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Wifredo Lam, September 1966-June 1967, n.p., no. 25 (titled Animal caraïbe).
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Totems et tabous: Lam, Matta, Penalba, April-June 1968, n.p., no. 11 (titled Après-midi d'un dimanche).
Madrid, Museo Nacional de Arte Contemporáneo; Brussels, Musée d'Ixelles; Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Homenaje a Wifredo Lam, 1902-1982, October 1982-May 1983, p. 76, no. 81 (illustrated).
Paris, Galerie Fabien Boulakia, Wifredo Lam, September-October 1985 (illustrated in color on the cover).
Paris, Galerie Fabien Boulakia, Wifredo Lam, September-October 1995, n.p. (illustrated in color).
Youngstown, Ohio, The Butler Institute of American Art, Selections from the Private Collection of David M. and Cecile Draime, April-August 2022, p. 15 (illustrated in color).
Artist:Wifredo Lam (1902 - 1982)
Applied technique:Gouache
Medium:Canvas, Textile
Art style:Modern art
Place of origin:Cuba
Auction house category:Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings
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