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  • Provenance

    Gary Nader Collection

  • Exhibited

    1948
    New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Wifredo Lam, 1982.
    New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Wifredo Lam Early Works 1942-1951, ill. No.15 (b.w.).
    1992
    San Juan (Puero Rico), Arsenal de la Puntilla, Wifredo
    Lam, obras desde 1938 hasta 1975, de regreso al Caribe, ill. cov. (col.).
    1992-1993
    Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, ill. p.102 (col.) / 1993, Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró, Wifredo Lam, ill. p.106 (col.). / 1993, Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró, Wifredo Lam, ill. p.90 (col.).

  • Literature

    “CEuvres récentes de Wifredo Lam,” Cahiersd;art, No. XXVI, 1951, p.182 (b.w.).
    M-P. Fouchet, Wifredo Lam, 1st ed., Barcelona/Paris, Poligrafa/Cercle d’Art, 1976, p.236, No 432 (b.w.)
    “Wifredo Lam,” XX siécle, no 52, special issue, Paris, July, 1979, p.97 (b.w.).
    M-P. Fouchet, Wifredo Lam, 2nd ed., Barcelona/Paris, Poligrafa/Cercle d’Art, 1989, p.256, No 464 (b.w.).
    Wifredo Lam Catalogue Raisonne of the painted work Vol I 1923-1960 Fig. 47.52 page 404.

  • Artist Biography

    Wifredo Lam

    Cuban • 1902 - 1982

    Wifredo Lam was born in Sagua la Grande, Cuba and was of mixed Chinese, European, Indian and African descent. He studied under Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor, curator for the Museo del Prado and teacher of Salvador Dalí.

    While studying in Spain, he met Pablo Picasso, who would become his mentor and friend as well as one of his great supporters, introducing him to the intelligentsia of the time. Lam significantly contributed to modernism during his prolific career as painter, printmaker, sculptor and ceramist. His works explored Cubism and expanded the inventive parameters of Surrealism while negotiating figuration and abstraction with a unique blend of Afro-Cuban and Surrealist iconography. His iconic visual language incorporated syncretic and fantastical objects and combined human-animal figures fused with lush vegetation.

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Lot offered with No Reserve

Le Guerrier, I (The Warrior) (L’ Initiateur)

1947
oil on canvas
107 x 84 cm (42 1/8 x 33 in.)
Signed and dated lower right

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Wifredo Lam

London 10 – 21 October 2016