LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

39.29 in. (99.80 cm.) (height) by 39.29 in. (99.80 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Markings:

Signed and dated "Wilfredo Lam 1.9.47" lower left

Exhibited:

Havana, Galería Sociedad Nuestro Tiempo, Lam y nuestro tiempo Paris, 1938 - 1951, 1951; Turin, Galleria Civica di Arte Moderna, Le Muse inquietanti, maestri del Surrealismo, 1967 - 1968; Turin, Galleria Gissi, Lam,1978; Rome, Villa Medici, Wifredo Lam ou l'Eloge du Mètissage, 1992 - 1993, then travelled to Milan (Palazzo de la Permanente, 1992 - 1993)

Literature:

M. Leiris, Lam, Milano, 1970, No.77 (illustrated); M.P. Fouchet, Wifredo Lam, 1st ed., Barcelona / Paris: Polígrafa / Cercle d'Art, 1976, p. 76, No. 82 (illustrated); "Dialogue entre les peuples de monde", Cultures - UNESCO, No. 33, 1983, frontispiece (illustrated); W. Rubin and J. L. Paudrat, Le Primitivisme dans l'art du XX siecle, Paris, 1987, p.80, No.82, (illustrated); Wifredo Lan ou l'Eloge du Métissage, exh.cat., Villa Medici, Rome, 1992-1993, p.103 (illustrated); L. Lam, Wifredo Lam - Catalogue Raisonné of the Painted Work, Vol. 1 1923 - 1960, 2006, p.400, No. 47.37 (illustrated)

Provenance:

Private Collection, Italy; Private Collection, Paris; Acquired from the above by the present owner