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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 24, 2014 | Christie's | New York | Latin American Art | 36 | $****** - ****** | Le Nid Fasciné |
paintings
61.3 x 79 cm (24.13 x 31.1 in)
oil on canvas
signed and faintly dated 'Wifredo Lam 1944' (lower left)
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York.
Private collection, Milan. Libreria Dell’Oca, Rome.Galerie Prazan-Fitoussi, Paris.Galerie Pascal Lansberg, Paris.
Anon. sale, Christie's New York, 23 November 1993, lot 20 (illustrated in color).
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Lam, 6- 24 June 1944, no. 4.San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, New Directions in Modern Painting, July 1950, no. 13. Organized and circulated by the American Federation of the Arts, Washington, D.C.Tokyo, The National Museum of Modern Art, Surrealism, 27 September-16 November 1975, no. 29. This exhibition also travelled to Kyoto, The National Museum of Modern Art, 26 November 1975-11 January 1976. New York, The Studio Museum Harlem, Wifredo Lam and His Contemporaries 1938-1952, 6 December 1992-11 April 1993, no. 31.Milwaukee, Wisconsin, The Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Wifredo Lam in North America, 11 October 2007-21 January 2008, no. 31. This is exhibition also travelled to Miami, Miami Art Museum, 8 February-18 May 2008; Long Beach, California, Museum of Latin American Art, 12 June-31 August 2008; St. Petersburg, Florida, Salvador Dalí Museum, 2 October 2008-10 January 2009.
Exhibition catalogue, Surrealism, Tokyo, The National Museum of Modern Art and Kyoto, The National Museum of Modern Art, 1975, no. 29 (illustrated in color).Exhibition catalogue, Wifredo Lam and His Contemporaries 1938-1952, New York, The Studio Museum in Harlem, 1992, p. 119, no. 31 (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. 350, no. 44.36 (illustrated). Exhibition catalogue, Wifredo Lam in North America, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, The Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, 2007, p. 105, no. 31 (illustrated in color).
