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Présages by Wifredo Lam

Wifredo Lam

Présages, 1947

Oil on canvas
99.8 x 99.8 cm (39.29 x 39.29 in)
Paintings
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Momentum 12M
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Last recorded sale at Phillips, New York (26 May 2015)
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Past Sales
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ImageSale dateAuction houseLocationSale nameLot No.EstimatePrice SoldConditionTitle
May 26, 2015
PhillipsNew YorkLatin America25
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Artwork Description
Category

paintings

Dimensions

99.8 x 99.8 cm (39.29 x 39.29 in)

Materials

oil on canvas

Signature

Signed and dated "Wilfredo Lam 1.9.47" lower left

Provenance

Private Collection, Italy

Private Collection, Paris

Acquired from the above by the present owner

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)