Lot Essay
"I have never created my pictures in terms of a symbolic tradition, but always on the basis of a poetic excitation. I believe in poetry. For me it is the greatest contest of mankind."
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PROPERTY OF A MIDWEST COLLECTION
Wifredo Lam (Cuban 1902-1982)
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Details
Wifredo Lam (Cuban 1902-1982)
Untitled
signed and dated 'Wifredo Lam, 1953' (lower right)
oil on linen mounted on masonite
28 x 23¼ in. (71.1 x 59 cm.)
Painted in 1953.
Untitled
signed and dated 'Wifredo Lam, 1953' (lower right)
oil on linen mounted on masonite
28 x 23¼ in. (71.1 x 59 cm.)
Painted in 1953.
Provenance
Galerie Colibri, Malmö, Sweden.
Acquired from the above (circa 1953).
By descent to the present owner.
Acquired from the above (circa 1953).
By descent to the present owner.
Literature
L. Laurin-Lam and E. Lam, Wifredo Lam: Catalogue Raisonné of the Painted Work, Volume I 1923-1960, Acatos, Lausanne, 1996, p. 429, no. 50.33 (illustrated).