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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
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May 24, 2018 | Christie's | New York | Latin American Art | 16 | $****** - ****** | Figure |
paintings
108 x 85.1 cm (42.52 x 33.5 in)
oil on canvas
signed and dated 'Wifredo Lam 1949' (lower right and again on the reverse)
Private collection, Paris.
Gary Nader, Miami.
Havana, Museo de Bellas Artes, Lam, óleos, y aguafuertes, 1966 (illustrated on the cover).
Paris, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Totems et Tabous, Lam, Matta, Penalba, 1968, no. 19 (illustrated).
Charlottenlund, Denmark, Ordrupgaard/Høvikodden (Norway) Sonja Henie, Niels Onstad Foundation, Wifredo Lam, 1978, No. 22, p. 28 (illustrated in color).
Islas, no. 1, Santa Clara (Cuba), Revista de la Universidad Central de las Villas, 1966, p.125 (illustrated).
M. Leiris, Lam, Milan, Fratelli Fabbri, 1970, no.91 (illustrated in color).
M-P. Fouchet, Wifredo Lam, 1st ed., Barcelona/Paris, Polígrafa/Cercle d’Art, 1976, p.91, no. 96 (illustrated in color).
“Wifredo Lam,” XX siécle, no.52, special issue, Paris, July 1979, p.45 (illustrated).
M-P. Fouchet, Wifredo Lam, 2nd ed., Barcelona/Paris, Polígrafa/Cercle d’Art, 1989, p.95, no. 96 (illustrated in color).
L. Laurin-Lam and E. Lam, Wifredo Lam: Catalogue Raisonné of the Painted Work, Volume I, 1923-1960, Lausanne, Acatos, 1996, p. 419, no. 49.20 (illustrated).
signed and dated 'Wifredo Lam 1949' (lower right and again on the reverse)
oil on canvas
42 ½ x 33 ½ in. (108 x 85.1 cm.)
Painted in 1949.
