Wifredo Lam (1902-1982)

Lot 36
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Lot 36 | Wifredo Lam (1902-1982)
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Wifredo Lam (1902-1982)

Femme assise avec fleurs

signed and dated 'Wifredo Lam 1944' (lower right)

oil on paper laid on canvas

44 1/8 x 31 7/8 in. (112 x 81 cm.)

Executed in 1944.





Provenance

Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York.

Galerie Fabien Boulakia, Paris.

Anon sale; Christie's, New York, 18 May 1994, lot 27.

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.



Literature

M. P. Fouchet, Wifredo Lam, 1st. ed., Barcelona/Paris, Ediciones Polígrafa/Cercle d'Art, 1976, p. 234, no. 403 (illustrated).

"Wifredo Lam," Cimaise, no. 177, Paris, 1985, p. 21 (illustrated in color).

L. Curzi, "Wifredo Lam: S'aboucher à l'invisible, L’Œil, Laussanne, October 1985, p. 42 (illustrated).

M. P. Fouchet, Wifredo Lam, 2nd. ed., Barcelona/Paris, Ediciones Polígrafa/Cercle d'Art, 1989, p. 254, no. 435 (illustrated).

L. Laurin-Lam, Wifredo Lam, Catalogue Raisonné of the Painted Work, Vol. I, 1923-1960, Lausanne, Acatos, 1996, p. 359, no. 44-67 (illustrated).





Exhibited

‌New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Wifredo Lam, Early Works, 1942-51, 1982.

Paris, Galerie Fabien Boulakia, Wifredo Lam, Sept. - Oct. 1985, (illustrated)
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