Sale 2563
New York
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22 - 23 May 2012
Price realised
USD 20,000
Estimate
Wifredo Lam (Cuban 1902-1982) Untitled gouache on paper laid on canvas 15¼ x 12 3/8 in. (38.7 x 31.4 cm.) Executed in 1937.
Provenance
George Nader Latin American Art, Santo Domingo. Acquired from the above.
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Literature
L. Laurin-Lam and E. Lam, Wifredo Lam: Catalogue Raisonné of the Painted Work, Volume II 1961-1982, Addendum 1923-1960, Acatos, Lausanne, 2002, p. 243, no. 37.44 (illustrated).
This work is sold with a certificate of authenticity signed by Lou Laurin-Lam and dated 23 January 1996.
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