Quatre mains pour un être

Details

Wifredo Lam (1902-1982)
Quatre mains pour un être
signé et daté 'Wifredo Lam 1967' (en bas à droite)
huile sur toile
92 x 73 cm. (36 1/8 x 28¾ in.)
Peint en 1967

Provenance

Galerie Jan Krugier, Genève
Collection A. Pagliano, Domodossola
Collection Luciano Paladini, Miami

Literature

M-P. Fouchet, Wifredo Lam, ed. originale, Barcelon Paris, 1976, n. 506 p. 260 (illustré)
M-P. Fouchet, Wifredo Lam, 2ème ed., Barcelon Paris, 1989, n. 538 p. 260 (illustré)
L. Laurin Lam, Wifredo Lam: Catalogue Raisonné of the painted Work-Volume II 1961-1982, Lausanne, 2002, n. 67.19, p. 299 (illustré)

Exhibited

Basel, Kunsthalle, Wifredo Lam Malerei, Vic Gentils Bildhauerei, 1966-1967. Cette exposition a voyagé à: Hanover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, 1967; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam et Moderna Museet, Stockholm.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Wifredo Lam (1902-1982)
Quatre mains pour un être
signed and dated 'Wifredo Lam 1967' (lower right)
oil on canvas
36 1/8 x 28¾ in. (92 x 73 cm.)
Painted in 1967

"He had brought back something else very special from Paris. I saw him unwrapping eight African sculptures with great care. They had traveled safely and were to become the nucleus of his future important collection of tribal art." Helena Benitez, quoted in Wifredo and Helena, My Life with Wifredo Lam: 1939-1950, Acatos, Lausanne, 1999, p. 166

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