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Lot Essay
This work will be included in the forthcoming Wifredo Lam catalogue raisonn of the Painted Work, vol. II, 1961-1982, being prepared by Mme Lou Laurin-Lam, Paris.
"His painting is like a rock crystal, brilliant and dagger-sharp, plunged into this sombre age of ours. Those incisive lines, those taut curves, those sharp reliefs and restrained colours, that rigid movement (rigid because it is at the climax of a long shuddering), that austerity, in short: all these characteristics are purely classical" (S. Gasch, Wifredo Lam Paris, Barcelona 1976, p. 52).
"His painting is like a rock crystal, brilliant and dagger-sharp, plunged into this sombre age of ours. Those incisive lines, those taut curves, those sharp reliefs and restrained colours, that rigid movement (rigid because it is at the climax of a long shuddering), that austerity, in short: all these characteristics are purely classical" (S. Gasch, Wifredo Lam Paris, Barcelona 1976, p. 52).