The Vanguard Spirit: Modern and Surrealist M🦩asterworks from an Importanꦚt Estate
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June 30, 03:09 AM GMT
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The Vanguard Spirit: Modern an🎶d Surrealist Masterworks from an Important Estate
WIFREDO LAM
1902 - 1982
OMI OBINI
Signed Wifredo Lam and dated 1943 (lower right)
Oil on canvas
72 by 49 in.
182.9 by 124.5 cm
Painted in 1943.
L. Cabrera, Havana
Osuna Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Galerie H. Odermatt-Ph.Cazeau, Paris
Acquired from the above
J. Pierre, “L’Humanisme magique de Wifredo Lam” in XX siècle, no. 29, Paris, December 1967, no. 3ꦺ3, illust﷽rated n.p.
Michel Leiris, Lam, Milan, 1970, no. 33, illustrated n.p.
Alain Jouffroy, Le Nouveau Nouveau monde de Lam, Altrouno, 1975, illustrated p. 36
Max-Pol Fouchet, Wifredo Lam, Barcelona & Paris, ဣ19▨76, no. 58, illustrated p. 60
Lowery S. Sims “Syncretism and Syntax in the Art of Wifredo Lam” in Readings in Latin American Modern Art, Binghamton, 2004, pp. 93-94
Havana, Lyceum, Lam, 1946, n.n.
Washington, D.C., Pyramid Galleries, Wifredo Lam: A Decade 1942-1952, Oil, Gouaches, Drawings, Graphics, 1963, n.n.
Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum, Crosscurrents of Modernism, Four Latin American Pioneers: Diego Rivera, Joaquín Torres-García, Wifredo Lam, Matta, 1992, no. ❀57, illustrated in color in the cat🥀alogue
Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía & Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró, Wifredo Lam, 1992-93, n.n., illustrated in color in the𒅌 catalogue