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Untitled (Mujer sentada)
Details
Wifredo Lam (1902-1982)
Untitled (Mujer sentada)
signed and dated 'Wifredo Lam 1937' (lower right) also signed, inscribed and dated 'Cette Gouache A Ete Realiçcé Par Moi en 1937 Á Barcelona Wifredo Lam, Paris-1975.' (on the reverse lower left). Also indistinctly signed, dated and dedicated 'Pour Toussaint, Wifredo Lam, 1952' (on label on the backing cardboard on the reverse)
watercolor and gouache on paper
15 1/8 x 13 3/8 in. (38.4 x 34 cm.)
Executed in 1937.
Untitled (Mujer sentada)
signed and dated 'Wifredo Lam 1937' (lower right) also signed, inscribed and dated 'Cette Gouache A Ete Realiçcé Par Moi en 1937 Á Barcelona Wifredo Lam, Paris-1975.' (on the reverse lower left). Also indistinctly signed, dated and dedicated 'Pour Toussaint, Wifredo Lam, 1952' (on label on the backing cardboard on the reverse)
watercolor and gouache on paper
15 1/8 x 13 3/8 in. (38.4 x 34 cm.)
Executed in 1937.
Provenance
Private collection, Paris.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 22 October 1987, lot 512 (illustrated).
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 22 October 1987, lot 512 (illustrated).
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
L. Laurin-Lam, Wifredo Lam: Catalogue Raisonné of the Painted Work, Volume I 1921-1960, Lausanne, Acatos, 1996, p. 238, no. 37.01 (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, Americas Society Art Gallery, Wifredo Lam: A Retrospecive of Works on Paper, 18 September – 20 December 1992, p. 58, no. 11 (illustrated in color). This exhibition traveled to Barcelona, Wifredo Lam: Obra sobre paper, Fundació “la Caixa,” Centre Cultural, 21 January – 28 March 1993, p. 91, no. 12 (illustrated in color).