WIFREDO LAM (1902-1982)
WIFREDO LAM (1902-1982)
WIFREDO LAM (1902-1982)
WIFREDO LAM (1902-1982)
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WIFREDO LAM (1902-1982)

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WIFREDO LAM (1902-1982)
Untitled
signed 'Wifredo Lam' (lower right)
oil on canvas
38 7/8 x 31 5/8 in. (98.8 x 80.3 cm.)
Painted circa 1969
來源
Collezione d'Arte Moderna, Milan.
Freites Revilla Gallery, Boca Raton.
Anonymous sale, Christie's, New York, 16 May 1995, lot 169.
Private collection, Massachusetts.
Private collection, Miami.
Anonymous sale, Christie's, New York, 21 November 2006, lot 61.
Frey Norris Gallery, San Francisco.
Acquired from the above by the present owners in 2006.
出版
L. Laurin-Lam & E. Lam, Wilfredo Lam: Catalogue Raisonné of the Painted Work, Volume II, 1961-1982, Lausanne, 2002, no. 69.03 (illustrated p. 308).
展覽
San Francisco, Frey Norris Contemporary & Modern, Exultation: Sex, Death and Madness in Eight Surrealist Masterworks, 2011.
注意事項
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This work is sold with a certificate of authenticity signed by Lou Laurin-Lam and dated 21 September 21 1994.
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Ottavia Marchitelli
Ottavia Marchitelli Senior Specialist, Head of The Art of The Surreal Sale

拍品專文

‘I have made the journey of Christopher Columbus in reverse, from the Antilles to Liguria,’ Wifredo Lam once remarked (W. Lam, quoted in L. Vicenti, ‘Mi credevano lo stregone che beve sangue,’ Oggi Illustrato 25, 17 July 1972). His transatlantic crossings had begun a half-century earlier, when he left Havana for Madrid in 1923, and shaped his practice in the intervening decades as he crisscrossed the Atlantic. The most internationally acclaimed member of Cuba’s historical vanguardia, Lam found his way to Paris (and to Picasso) in 1938, and he was welcomed into the Surrealist circle that included Benjamin Péret, André Breton, Yves Tanguy, and Roberto Matta. In 1941, he set sail from Marseilles to Havana and soon re-engaged with the Afro-Cuban rituals of the island, imaging the strange and surreal confluences of Western and ‘primitive’ cultures in paintings that probed the colonial past and present. He left the revolutionary tumult in Cuba in April 1958 and eventually settled between Paris and the coastal Italian town of Albissola, where he found respite in the mild Mediterranean climes and entered a period of retrospection in his work.
These years saw new distillations of his Afro-Cuban iconography, evolved from his early studies of the Lucumí, or Santería religion with his godmother Ma’Antonica Wilson, a Yoruba priestess. The New World mythology of now-familiar characters – the famed femme-cheval, syncretic orishas (deities) – manifested in increasingly clarified visual forms in works ranging from the monumental Les Abalochas dansent pour Dhambala, dieu de l’unité (1970) to the present Untitled. Here, the horned heads characteristic of the orisha Elegguá materialize out of a tenebrous sepia ground, their schematized forms commingled with the angular appendages of his femme-cheval. ‘While Cubism and Surrealism were essential to the development of his style, his painting was always something on its own, and even more so in the later years – the work is more abstract, the hybrid figures more menacing,’ Lam’s son Eskil observed. ‘By the time he’s in Albissola, you tend to see monochrome backgrounds with hardly any detail, often just a simple wash – everything becomes concentrated in the line’ (E. Lam, ‘Wifredo Lam: The Albissola Years,’ in Tate Etc., no. 38, Autumn 2016, London, p. 6).
Abby McEwen, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland, College Park

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