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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 13, 2019 | Sotheby's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale | 418 | $****** - ****** | AU COMMENCEMENT DE LA NUIT (BONJOUR MONSIEUR LAM) | |||
Nov 16, 2011 | Sotheby's | New York | Latin American Art | 12 | $****** - ****** | AU COMMENCEMENT DE LA NUIT (BONJOUR MONSIEUR LAM) | |||
Nov 16, 1994 | Christie's | New York | Important Latin American Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture - Part I | 71 | $****** - ****** | AU COMMENCEMENT DE LA NUIT (BONJOUR MONSIEUR LAM) | |||
Dec 3, 1992 | Sotheby's | London | Post War & Contemporary Art | 3 | $****** - ****** | AU COMMENCEMENT DE LA NUIT (BONJOUR MONSIEUR LAM) |
paintings
74.9 x 150.5 cm (29.49 x 59.25 in)
Oil on burlap
Signed Wifredo Lam and dated 1959 (lower right); titled and dated 1959 (on the reverse)
Collezione Furstenburg, Milan
I. Salomon, Paris
J. Krebs, Brussels
Private Collection, Italy (and sold: Sotheby's, London, December 3, 1992, lot 3)
Galería Freites, Caracas
Private Collection, Tel Aviv (and sold: Christie's, New York, November 16, 1994, lot 71)
Private Collection, New York
Private Collection (acquired from the above and sold: Sotheby's, New York, November 16, 2011, lot 12)
Acquired at the above sale
Milan, Galleria Pagani del Grattacielo, Opere Recenti di Lam, 1959, no. 13
Paris, Galerie La Cour d'Ingres, Wifredo Lam, 1961, n.n.
Basel, Kunsthalle; Hannover, Kestner-Gesellschaft; Wifredo Lam Malerei, Vic Gentils Bildhauerei, 1966-1967, no. 53
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; Stockholm, Moderna Museet & Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Wifredo Lam, 1967, n.n.
Roslyn Harbor, Nassau County Museum of Art, Surrealism, 2000-01, n.n., illustrated in color in the catalogue
Roslyn Harbor, Nassau County Museum of Art, The Latin Century: Beyond the Border, 2002, n.n., illustrated in color in the catalogue
Oakdale, New York, The Anthony Giordano Gallery, Dowling College, Visiones: 20th Century Latin Art, 2003, n.n., illustrated in the catalogue
Roslyn Harbor, Nassau County Museum of Art, A Collector's Insight: Latin Visions, 2004-05, n.n.
Roslyn Harbor, Nassau Country Museum of Art, Latin Masters, 2007, n.n.
Michel Leiris, Lam, Milan, 1970, illustrated p. 128
Max Pol Fouchet, Wifredo Lam, Barcelona & Paris, 1976, no. 475, illustrated p. 239
Lou Laurin-Lam & Eskil Lam, Wifredo Lam: Catalogue Raisonné of the Painted Work, Volume I, 1923-1960, Lausanne, 1996, no. 59.01, illustrated p. 472
Signed Wifredo Lam and dated 1959 (lower right); titled and dated 1959 (on the reverse)
Oil on burlap
29 1/2 by 59 1/4 in.
74.9 by 150.5 cm
Painted in 1959.
