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Sur les traces (also known as Transformation) by Wifredo Lam

Wifredo Lam

Sur les traces (also known as Transformation), 1945

Oil on canvas
155 x 125 cm (61.02 x 49.21 in)
Paintings
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Last recorded sale at Phillips, Hong Kong (25 Nov 2018)
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ImageSale dateAuction houseLocationSale nameLot No.EstimatePrice SoldConditionTitle
Nov 25, 2018
PhillipsHong Kong20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale13
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Sur les traces (also known as Transformation)
Nov 23, 2016
Christie'sNew YorkLatin American Art47
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Sur les traces (also known as Transformation)
May 27, 2010
Sotheby'sNew YorkLatin American Art17
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Sur les traces (also known as Transformation)
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Artwork Description
Category

paintings

Dimensions

155 x 125 cm (61.02 x 49.21 in)

Materials

oil on canvas

Signature

signed and dated 'Wifredo Lam 1945' lower right

Provenance

Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York

Acquavella Modern Art, New York

Galerie Lelong, Paris

Sotheby’s, New York, 27 May 2010, Lot 17

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Lam, Recent Paintings, 1945

New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Wifredo Lam, Early Works, 1942-1951, 1982, no. 11 (illustrated)

San Juan, Arsenal de la Puntilla, Wifredo Lam, obras desde 1938 hasta 1975, de regreso al Caribe, 1992

New York, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Wifredo Lam and his Contemporaries 1938-1952, 1992, no. 98, p. 122 (illustrated)

Literature

M. Leiris, Lam, Milan, 1970, no. 52 (illustrated)

M. P. Fouchet, Wifredo Lam, Barcelona/Paris, 1976, no. 378, p. 233 (illustrated)

Lou Laurin-Lam, Wifredo Lam, Catalogue Raisonné of the Painted Work, Volume I, 1923-1960, Lausanne, 1996, no. 45.03, p. 368 (illustrated)

Lowery Stokes Sims, Wifredo Lam and the International Avant-Garde, 1923-1982, Austin, 2002, p. 52 (illustrated)

Tseng Chang-Shen, Wifredo Lam, Hebei, 2006, p. 88 (illustrated)