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Flor luna by Wifredo Lam

Wifredo Lam

Flor luna, 1950

Oil on canvas
107.5 x 86 cm (42.32 x 33.86 in)
Paintings
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Last recorded sale at Christie's, New York (17 Nov 2010)
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ImageSale dateAuction houseLocationSale nameLot No.EstimatePrice SoldConditionTitle
Nov 17, 2010
Christie'sNew YorkLatin American Sale14
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Flor luna
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Artwork Description
Category

paintings

Dimensions

107.5 x 86 cm (42.32 x 33.86 in)

Materials

oil on canvas

Provenance

Private collection, Paris. Ignacio Joaristi collection, Havana. Dulce María Zenaida Ramírez de Echavarría and Esther Juliana Ramírez Echavarría collection, Havana.

Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 20 November 1996, lot 37 (illustrated in color).

Private collection, Guayaquil. Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables.

Exhibited

Havana, Parque Central, Lam, obras recientes, 1950.. Milwaukee, Haggerty Museum of Art, Wifredo Lam in North America, 11 October 2007 - 21 January 2008. This exhibition also traveled to Miami, Miami Art Museum, 8 - 18 February 2008; Long Beach, Museum of Latin American Art, 12 June - 31 August 2008; and St. Petersburg, Salvador Dalí Museum, 2 October 2008 - 10 January 2009.

Literature

F. Ortiz, Wifredo Lam, Havana, Publicaciones del Ministerio de Educación, 1950, no. 18 (illustrated). E. Desnoes, Lam, azul y negro, Havana, Ediciones Cuadernos de la Casa de las Américas, 1963, p. 24 (illustrated). Islas, no. 1, Las Villas, Cuba, Universidad Central de las Villas, 1966, p. 124 (illustrated). M. Leiris, Lam, Milan, Fratelli Fabbri, 1970, no. 82 (illustrated). A. Jouffroy, Le nouveau Nouveau monde de Lam, Pollenza-Macerata, Italy, La Nuova Foglio Altrouno, 1975, p. 154 (illustrated). 'Wifredo Lam,' in XX siècle, no. 52, Paris, July 1979, p. 9 (illustrated). Exhibition catalogue, Wifredo Lam and His Contemporaries, New York, The Studio Museum in Harlem, 1992, p. 70 (illustrated). L. Laurin-Lam and E. Lam, Wifredo Lam: Catalogue Raisonné of the Painted Work, Volume I 1923-1960, Lausanne, Acatos, 1996, p. 428, no. 50.29 (illustrated). Exhibition catalogue, Wifredo Lam in North America, Milwaukee, Haggerty Museum of Art, 2007-2008, fig. 49 (illustrated in color).