Wifredo Lam (1902-1982)
Femme nue, III
signed and dated 'Wifredo Lam 1944' (lower right)
oil on paper laid on canvas
30 3/4 x 24 in. (78.1 x 61 cm.)
Executed in 1944.
Provenance
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York.
Literature
M.-P. Fouchet, Wifredo Lam, 1st ed., Barcelona/Paris, Polígrafa/Cercle d'Art, 1976, p. 234, no. 400 (illustrated). M.-P. Fouchet, Wifredo Lam, 2nd ed., Barcelona/Paris, Polígrafa/Cercle d'Art, 1989, p. 254, no. 432 (illustrated). L. Laurin-Lam and E. Lam, Wifredo Lam: Catalogue Raisonné of the Painted Work, Volume I 1923-1960, Lausanne, Acatos, 1996, p. 359, no. 44.65 (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Wifredo Lam and His Contemporaries, 1938-1952, 6 December 1992 - 11 April 1993, no. 33.
Lot Essay
We are grateful to Eskil Lam for his assistance cataloguing this work.