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OMI OBINI by Wifredo Lam

Wifredo Lam

OMI OBINI, 1943

Oil on canvas
182.9 x 124.5 cm (72 x 49 in)
Paintings
Unique artwork
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Momentum 12M
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Last recorded sale at Sotheby's, New York (30 Jun 2020)
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ImageSale dateAuction houseLocationSale nameLot No.EstimatePrice SoldConditionTitle
Jun 30, 2020
Sotheby'sNew YorkImpressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale1008
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OMI OBINI
Artwork Description
Category

paintings

Dimensions

182.9 x 124.5 cm (72 x 49 in)

Materials

Oil on canvas

Provenance

L. Cabrera, Havana

Osuna Gallery, Washington, D.C.

Galerie H. Odermatt-Ph.Cazeau, Paris

Acquired from the above

Exhibited

Havana, Lyceum, Lam, 1946, n.n.

Washington, D.C., Pyramid Galleries, Wifredo Lam: A Decade 1942-1952, Oil, Gouaches, Drawings, Graphics, 1963, n.n.

Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum, Crosscurrents of Modernism, Four Latin American Pioneers: Diego Rivera, Joaquín Torres-García, Wifredo Lam, Matta, 1992, no. 57, illustrated in color in the catalogue

Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía & Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró, Wifredo Lam, 1992-93, n.n., illustrated in color in the catalogue

Literature

J. Pierre, “L’Humanisme magique de Wifredo Lam” in XX siècle, no. 29, Paris, December 1967, no. 33, illustrated n.p.

Michel Leiris, Lam, Milan, 1970, no. 33, illustrated n.p.

Alain Jouffroy, Le Nouveau Nouveau monde de Lam, Altrouno, 1975, illustrated p. 36

Max-Pol Fouchet, Wifredo Lam, Barcelona & Paris, 1976, no. 58, illustrated p. 60

Lowery S. Sims “Syncretism and Syntax in the Art of Wifredo Lam” in Readings in Latin American Modern Art, Binghamton, 2004, pp. 93-94