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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 26, 2015 | Sotheby's | New York | Latin American Art Modern & Contemporary | 114 | $****** - ****** | Le Sorcier De L'océan (Alafi Incam/Ogun Ferraille), The Wizard of The Ocean |
paintings
107 x 85.5 cm (42.13 x 33.66 in)
oil on canvas
signed and dated 1947 lower center
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York. Collection of Jeanne Reynal, New York (1947). David Herbert Gallery, New York (1961). Collection of Dolores Smithies, Key Biscayne.
By descent to the present owner
New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Wifredo Lam, April 20-May 8, 1948. New York, David Herbert Gallery, Spanish and Latin American Artists, February 1-March 31, 1961. New York, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Wifredo Lam and His Contemporaries 1939-1952, 1992-1993, no. 43, p. 145, illustrated; p. 117, discussed. Paris, Musée Dapper, Lam métis, September 26, 2001-January 20, 2002, no. 56, p. 135, illustrated in color
Fernando Ortíz, Wifredo Lam, La Habana, 1950, no. 10, illustrated. Marcel Jean, The History of Surrealist Painting, New York, 1960, p. 303, illustrated. André Breton, Le Surréalisme et la Peinture, Paris, 1965, p. 169, illustrated. Patrick Waldberg, Les demeures d'Hypnos, Paris, 1976, p. 282, illustrated. Max-Pol Fouchet, Wifredo Lam, Paris, 1976, no. 420, p. 235, illustrated. "Wifredo Lam", XX Siècle, no. 52, July 1979, p. 34, illustrated. Max-Pol Fouchet, Wifredo Lam, Paris, 1989, no. 452, p. 255, illustrated. Lou Laurin-Lam, Wifredo Lam, Catalogue Raisonné of the Painted Works, Volume I 1923-1960, Lausanne, 1996 , no. 47.45, p. 402, illustrated. Charles E. Pierce, Jr., William M. Griswold, Jennifer Tonkovich, et. al., Pierre Matisse and His Artists, New York, 2002, p. 216, illustrated. Elizabeth T. Goizueta, et. al., Wifredo Lam, Imagining New Worlds, (exhibition catalogue), Boston, 2014, p. 16, illustrated
