Wifredo Lam - New Now London Thursday, December 12, 2019 | Phillips

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London Auction 12 December 2019

  • Provenance

    Private Collection
    Wannenes Art Auctions, Genoa, 13 December 2018, lot 117
    Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

  • Artist Biography

    Wifredo Lam

    Cuban • 1902 - 1982

    Wifredo Lam was born in Sagua la Grande, Cuba and was of mixed Chinese, European, Indian and African descent. He studied under Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor, curator for the Museo del Prado and teacher of Salvador Dalí.

    While studying in Spain, he met Pablo Picasso, who would become his mentor and friend as well as one of his great supporters, introducing him to the intelligentsia of the time. Lam significantly contributed to modernism during his prolific career as painter, printmaker, sculptor and ceramist. His works explored Cubism and expanded the inventive parameters of Surrealism while negotiating figuration and abstraction with a unique blend of Afro-Cuban and Surrealist iconography. His iconic visual language incorporated syncretic and fantastical objects and combined human-animal figures fused with lush vegetation.

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Wifredo Lam

Senza Titolo

signed and dated 'Wifredo Lam 1973' lower left
oil pastel on paper laid on canvas
24 x 34 cm (9 1/2 x 13 3/8 in.)
Executed in 1973, this work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.

Estimate
£15,000 - 20,000 

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New Now

London Auction 12 December 2019