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Wifredo Lam

Ídolo (Oyá/Divinité de l"air et de la mort), 1944

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$****** - ******

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Image	Sale date	Auction house	Location	Sale name	Lot No.	Estimate	Price Sold	Condition	Title
	Nov 21, 2025	Sotheby's	New York	Modern Evening Auction	110	$**** - ****			Ídolo (Oyá/Divinité de l"air et de la mort)
	May 23, 2012	Sotheby's	New York	Latin American Art	8	$**** - ****			Ídolo (Oya/Divinité De L'air Et De La Mort)

Category

paintings

Dimensions

157.5 x 127.6 cm (62 x 50.25 in)

Materials

oil and charcoal on canvas

Signature

signed Wifredo Lam and dated 1944 (lower left)

Provenance

Galerie Pierre, Paris

Carlos Raúl and Margot Villanueva, Caracas (acquired by 1970)

Sotheby"s, New York, 23 May 2012, lot 8 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

Avignon, Palais des Papes, Exposition de peintures et sculptures contemporaines, 1947

Caracas, Museo de Bellas Artes, Wifredo Lam, pintura y obra gráfica 1938-1976 , 1986-87, no. 31

London, The Hayward Gallery; Stockholm, Moderna Museet and Madrid, Palacio de Velázquez, Art in Latin America, The Modern Era 1820-1980 , 1989-90, p. 232, illustrated in color

Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Crosscurrents of Modernism, Four Latin American Pioneers: Diego Rivera, Joaquín Torres-García, Wifredo Lam, Matta, 1992, no. 61, p. 201, illustrated in color

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century , 1993, no. 103, p. 259, illustrated in color

Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Wifredo Lam, 2016, p. 103, illustrated in color

Boston, McMullen Museum of Art and Atlanta, High Museum of Art, Wifredo Lam: Imagining New Worlds, no. 36, p. 127, illustrated in color

Centre Pompidou Metz, Cartographies for After the End, no. 55 p. 111, illustrated in color

Literature

Pierre Loeb, Voyage à travers la peinture , Paris, 1946, pl. XVII, illustrated

"Wifredo Lam et les idoles crépusculaires," Quadrum , no 3, 1957, p. 38, illustrated

Patrick Waldberg, Metafisica, Dada, Surrealismo: le immagini e gli eventi dell"inconscio , Milan, 1967, no. 98, illustrated

Michel Leiris, Wifredo Lam , New York, 1970, p. 150, illustrated

Max Pol Fouchet, Wifredo Lam , Barcelona and Paris, 1976, no. 374, p. 232, illustrated

Lou Laurin-Lam and Eskil Lam, Wifredo Lam: Catalogue Raisonné of the Painted Work , vol. I, 1923-1960 , Paris, 1996, no. 44.88, p. 366, illustrated

Lowery Stokes Sims, Wifredo Lam and the International Avant-Garde , 1923 - 1982 , Austin, 2002, fig. 2.19, pp. 53 and n.p., illustrated

Description

Property of an Important North American Collection

Wifredo Lam

(1902 - 1982)

Ídolo (Oyá/Divinité de l"air et de la mort)

signed Wifredo Lam and dated 1944 (lower left)

oil and charcoal on canvas

62 by 50 ¼ in. 157.3 by 127.6 cm.

Executed in 1944.

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