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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 3, 2016 | Christie's | London | The Art of the Surreal | 107 | $****** - ****** | Chant de la forêt | |||
Nov 19, 1989 | Guy Loudmer | Paris | Important Modern Paintings, Watercolours & Sculpture | 43 | $****** - ****** | Chant de la forêt |
paintings
154.6 x 107.3 cm (60.88 x 42.25 in)
oil on canvas
H.H. Benítez, Saarbrücken.
Galerie Albert Loeb, Paris.
Galleria Gissi, Turin.
Private collection, Rome.
Private collection, Paris.
Banque Commerciale Privée, Paris.
Anonymous sale, Guy Loudmer, Paris, 19 November 1989, lot 43.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Washington, D.C., Pyramid Galleries, Wifredo Lam: A Decade, 1942-1952, Oils, Gouaches, Drawings, Graphics, 1963 (illustrated).<br>Paris, Galerie Albert Loeb, Wifredo Lam, En homage à Pierre Loeb, oeuvres importantes de 1938 à 1946, 1974 (illustrated).<br>Paris, Artcurial, L’Aventure surréaliste autour d’André Breton, May - August 1986, p. 113 (illustrated).<br>Paris, Galerie Maeght Lelong, Wifredo Lam, 1987, no. 1, p. 4 (illustrated).<br>Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Wifredo Lam, July - September 1988, no. 41, p. 88 (illustrated p. 66; titled 'Lied des Waldes'); this exhibition later travelled to Hamburg, Kunstverein, November 1988 - January 1989.<br>Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Crosscurrents of Modernism: Four Latin American Pioneers, June - September 1992, no. 65, p. 204 (illustrated).<br>Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Wifredo Lam, September - December 1992, p. 103 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró, January - March 1993, p. 87 (illustrated).<br>São Paulo, Pavilhão Ciccillo, Salas especiais, XXIII Bienal Internacional: Wifredo Lam, October - December 1996.<br>Yokohama, Museum of Art, Wifredo Lam: The Changing Image, Centennial Exhibition, October 2002 - January 2003.<br>
M.P. Fouchet, Wifredo Lam, Barcelona and Paris, 1976, no. 409, p. 234 (illustrated).<br>'Wifredo Lam', in XXe siècle, no. 52 (special edition), Paris, July 1979, p. 57 (illustrated).<br>M.P. Fouchet, Wifredo Lam, Barcelona and Paris, 1989, no. 441, p. 254 (illustrated).<br>L. Laurin-Lam & E. Lam, Wifredo Lam: Catalogue Raisonné of the Painted Work, vol, 1923-1960, Lausanne, 1996, no. 46.13, p. 389 (illustrated).<br>
