CUBAN Wifredo Lam Untitled 1970 Pastel and charcoal on paper. 25 x 19 1/8 in. (63.5 x 48.6 cm). Signed lower right.
Provenance Sotheby’s, 26 October 1989, London Private Collection, United States Tajan, 26 May 2005, Paris Literature Jacques Leenhardt Wifredo Lam Paris: HC Editions, 2009, p 277. Illustrated in color. Artist Bio 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. View More Works
CUBAN Wifredo Lam Untitled 1970 Pastel and charcoal on paper. 25 x 19 1/8 in. (63.5 x 48.6 cm). Signed lower right.
Provenance Sotheby’s, 26 October 1989, London Private Collection, United States Tajan, 26 May 2005, Paris Literature Jacques Leenhardt Wifredo Lam Paris: HC Editions, 2009, p 277. Illustrated in color. Artist Bio 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. View More Works
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