PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF WALLACE CAMPBELL
Wifredo Lam (1902-1982)
El gallo y la gallina
Details
Wifredo Lam (1902-1982)
El gallo y la gallina
signed and dated 'Wifredo Lam, 1955' (lower left)
ink and gouache on canvas
24 ¼ x 31 in. (62 x 79 cm.)
Painted in 1955.
El gallo y la gallina
signed and dated 'Wifredo Lam, 1955' (lower left)
ink and gouache on canvas
24 ¼ x 31 in. (62 x 79 cm.)
Painted in 1955.
Provenance
Mr. & Mrs. Bernard F. Gimbel, Greenwich.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 20 May 1986, lot 29.
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 20 May 1986, lot 29.
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
M.-P. Fouchet, Wifredo Lam, First Edition, Ediciones Polígrafa, Barcelona, 1976, p. 237, no. 457 (illustrated, titled Dos and incorrectly dated 1956).
M.-P. Fouchet, Wifredo Lam, Second Edition, Ediciones Polígrafa, Barcelona, 1989, p. 257, no. 489 (illustrated, titled Two and incorrectly dated 1956).
L. Laurin-Lam and E. Lam, Wifredo Lam: Catalogue Raisonné of the Painted Work, Volume I, 1923-1960, Lausanne, Acatos, 1996, p. 459, no. 55.28 (illustrated).
M.-P. Fouchet, Wifredo Lam, Second Edition, Ediciones Polígrafa, Barcelona, 1989, p. 257, no. 489 (illustrated, titled Two and incorrectly dated 1956).
L. Laurin-Lam and E. Lam, Wifredo Lam: Catalogue Raisonné of the Painted Work, Volume I, 1923-1960, Lausanne, Acatos, 1996, p. 459, no. 55.28 (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, The American Federation of Arts, Cuban Painting Today, September 1956-September 1957, no. 20. This exhibition travelled to Atlanta, Atlanta Public Library; Nashville, Fisk University; Georgetown, TX, Southwestern University; Indianapolis, John Herron Institute; Pittsburgh, Chatahn College; Corpus Christi, TX, Corpus Christi Art Foundation; and Houston, Foley's.
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Virgilio Garza