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A TROIS CENTIMÈTRES DE LA TERRE by Wifredo Lam

Wifredo Lam

A TROIS CENTIMÈTRES DE LA TERRE, 1962

Oil on canvas
146.8 x 216.8 cm (57.8 x 85.35 in)
Paintings
Unique artwork
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Last recorded sale at Sotheby's, Paris (06 Dec 2017)
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Past Sales
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ImageSale dateAuction houseLocationSale nameLot No.EstimatePrice SoldConditionTitle
Dec 6, 2017
Sotheby'sParisCollection Alain & Candice Fraiberger11
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A TROIS CENTIMÈTRES DE LA TERRE
Mar 27, 1990
Champin-Lombrail-GautierLombrail & Gautier, EnchienOil Paintings, Watercolours & Sculpture26
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A TROIS CENTIMÈTRES DE LA TERRE
Artwork Description
Category

paintings

Dimensions

146.8 x 216.8 cm (57.8 x 85.35 in)

Materials

oil on canvas

Signature

signed and dated 1962

Provenance

Galerie Jan Krugier, Geneva

André Naggar, Paris

Jacques Wohres, Paris

Sale: Enghien-les-Bains, Hôtel des ventes mobilières, March 27, 1990, lot 26

Collection Alain & Candice Fraiberger

Exhibited

New York, Albert Loeb Gallery, 1963

Geneva, Galerie Krugier & Cie, Wifredo Lam, 1963, no. 22 or 23

Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, XXème Salon de Mai, 1964; catalogue, p. 53, illustrated

Hanover, Kestsnergesellschaft, Rétrospective Lam, 1966; catalogue, no. 58, illustrated

Basel, Kunsthalle, Wifredo Lam Malerei, 1966

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; Stockholm, Moderna Museet and Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Rétrospective Lam, 1967

Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Totems et Tabous, Lam, Matta, Penalba, 1968; catalogue, n.p., illustrated

Dusseldorf, Kunst Nordrhein Westfalen & Hamburg, Kunstverein, Wifredo Lam, 1988-89; catalogue, p. 78, no. 53, illustrated

Paris, Musée Dapper, Lam, 2001-2002

Yokohama, Centennial Exhibition, Yokohama Museum of Art, Wifredo Lam: Modernism and Beyond, 2002-2003

L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, Maison René Char, Lam et les poètes, 2005; catalogue, pp. 38-39, illustrated

Madrid, Museo nacional Centro de arte Reina Sofia, Wifredo Lam, 2016; catalogue, p. 149, illustrated in colour

Literature

L'Oeil, Le Salon de mai, juin 1964, p. 35, illustrated

Michel Leiris, Wifredo Lam, New York, 1970, n.p., no. 146, illustrated

Max-Pol Fouchet, Wifredo Lam, Paris, 1976, p. 114, no. 128, illustrated

XXe siècle, no. 52, Wifredo Lam, juillet 1979, p. 12, illustrated

Max-Pol Fouchet, Wifredo Lam, Paris, 1989, p. 118, no. 128, illustrated

Lou Laurin-Lam and Eskil Lam, Wifredo Lam, Catalogue Raisonné of the Painted Work, vol. II, 1961-1982, Lausanne, 2002, p. 265, no. 62.33, illustrated

Description

signed and dated 1962

oil on canvas

146,8 x 216,8 cm; 57 3/4 x 85 3/8  in.

Executed in 1962.