Wifredo Lam (1902-1982)
Wifredo Lam (1902-1982)

The Warrior

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Wifredo Lam (1902-1982)
The Warrior
signed and dated 'Wifredo Lam 1948' lower left
oil on canvas
28¾ x 33in. (73 x 84cm.)
Painted in 1948
Provenance
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York
Studio Bellini, Milan
Literature
"The Ritual Painting of Wifredo Lam", Magazine of Art, Vol. 42, No. 5, Washington, D.C., May 1949, p. 188, n.n. (illustrated)
Leiris, M. Lam, Fratelli Fabbri, Milano, 1970, n.p., n. 83 (illustrated)
Fouchet, M. P. Wifredo Lam, 1st. ed., Poligrafa/Cercle d'Art, Barcelona/Paris, 1976, p. 76, n. 83 (illustrated in color)
Fouchet, M. P. Wifredo Lam, 2nd. ed., Poligrafa/Cercle d'Art, Barcelona/Paris, 1989, p. 80, n. 83 (illustrated in color)
Laurin-Lam, L. Wifredo Lam: Catalogue Raisonné of the Painted Work, Volume I 1923-1960, Acatos, Lausanne, 1994, p. 404, n. 47.51 (illustrated)
Exhibited
New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Wifredo Lam, 1948, n.p., n.n.
Milan, Studio Bellini, Panorama 6, 1969, n.p., n.n. (illustrated in color)
New York, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Wifredo Lam and his Contemporaries 1938-1952, Dec. 1992-April 1993, p. 43, n.n. (installation shot)

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