ID 908083
Lot 105 | WIFREDO LAM (1902-1982)
Estimate value
£ 300 000 – 500 000
Untitled
signed 'Wifredo Lam' (lower right)
oil on canvas
38 7/8 x 31 5/8 in. (98.8 x 80.3 cm.)
Painted circa 1969
Provenance
Collezione d'Arte Moderna, Milan.
Freites Revilla Gallery, Boca Raton.
Anonymous sale, Christie's, New York, 16 May 1995, lot 169.
Private collection, Massachusetts.
Private collection, Miami.
Anonymous sale, Christie's, New York, 21 November 2006, lot 61.
Frey Norris Gallery, San Francisco.
Acquired from the above by the present owners in 2006.
Literature
L. Laurin-Lam & E. Lam, Wilfredo Lam: Catalogue Raisonné of the Painted Work, Volume II, 1961-1982, Lausanne, 2002, no. 69.03 (illustrated p. 308).
Exhibited
San Francisco, Frey Norris Contemporary & Modern, Exultation: Sex, Death and Madness in Eight Surrealist Masterworks, 2011.
Special Notice
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Post Lot Text
This work is sold with a certificate of authenticity signed by Lou Laurin-Lam and dated 21 September 21 1994.
| Artist: | Wifredo Lam (1902 - 1982) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Place of origin: | Cuba |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Artist: | Wifredo Lam (1902 - 1982) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Place of origin: | Cuba |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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