Wifredo Lam - Wifredo Lam London Thursday, October 20, 2016 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Gary Nader Collection

  • Exhibited

    Rome, Villa Medicis, Wifredo Lam ou l’eloge du metissage, 1992
    This exhibition also travelled to Milan, Palazzodella Permanente, 1993

  • Literature

    Exhibition catalogue, Wifredo Lam ou l’eloge du metissage, 1992, Rome, Villa Medicis, 1992, p.143 (ill. color)
    Wifredo Lam Catalogue Raisonne of the painted work Vol II 1961-1982, Lausanne, Acatos, 2002, p.46 N.39 (ill. color) and p.281, N.64.26 illustrated.
    J. Leenhardt, Lam, Paris, HC Editions, 2009, p.222 (ill. color).

  • 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

San Titre (Untitled)

1964
oil on canvas
131.4 x 111.8 cm (51 3/4 x 44 in.)
Signed and dated lower right; signed and dated on the reverse

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Wifredo Lam

London 10 – 21 October 2016