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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 18, 2025 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale | 369 | $****** - ****** | Coq des Caraïbes, I |
paintings
41 x 50.2 cm (16.13 x 19.75 in)
gouache on canvas
signed, dated and inscribed "Wifredo Lam 1945 Cuba" (lower left)
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.
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).
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.
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
