WIFREDO LAM (1902-1982)
WIFREDO LAM (1902-1982)
WIFREDO LAM (1902-1982)
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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MAX AND CECILE DRAIME
WIFREDO LAM (1902-1982)

Jeune fille au fond carré

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WIFREDO LAM (1902-1982)
Jeune fille au fond carré
signed and dated 'Wifredo Lam 39' (lower left); signed and dated again 'Wifredo Lam 1939' (on the reverse)
gouache and watercolor on paper laid down on canvas
24 x 18 1⁄8 in. (61 x 46.1 cm.)
Painted in 1939
Provenance
Private collection, Paris.
Private collection, Denmark.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 24 March 1994, lot 308.
Applicat-Prazan, Paris.
Acquired from the above by Max and Cecile Draime, 1994.
Literature
A. Jouffroy, Lam, Paris, 1972, p. 27 (illustrated in color).
M.-P. Fouchet, Wifredo Lam, Paris, 1976, p. 43, no. 34 (illustrated in color).
M.-P. Fouchet, Wifredo Lam, Paris, 1989, p. 47, no. 34 (illustrated in color).
H. Benitez, Wifredo Lam: Interlude Marseille, Copenhagen, 1993 (illustrated in color on the cover).
L. Laurin-Lam, Wifredo Lam: Catalogue Raisonné of the Painted Work, 1923-1960, Lausanne, 1996, vol. 1, pp. 513 and 269, no. 39.02 (illustrated p. 269; with incorrect medium).
Exhibited
Kunsthalle Basel; Hannover, Kestner-Gesellschaft; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; Stockholm, Moderna Museet; Brussels, Palais de Beaux-Arts, Wifredo Lam Malerei, Vic Gentils Bildhauerei, 1966-1967, no. 5.
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Totems et tabous, Lam, Matta, Penalba, April-June 1968, no. 3 (dated 1940).
Madrid, Museo Nacional de Arte Contemporáneo; Brussels, Musée d'Ixelles; Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Wifredo Lam, 1902-1982, October 1982-May 1983, p. 28, no. 11 (illustrated in color).
Youngstown, The Butler Institute of American Art, Selections from the Private Collection of David M. and Cecile Draime, April-August 2022, p. 15 (illustrated in color).

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