Wifredo Lam - Evening & Day Editions London Thursday, September 19, 2024 | Phillips
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    Dominique Tonneau-Ryckelynck 304-313

  • 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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Pleni Luna (Full Moon) (T. R. 304-313)

1974
The complete set of ten lithographs in colours, on Japon nacré paper, the full sheets.
all S. approx. 65 x 50 cm (25 5/8 x 19 5/8 in.)
All signed and numbered XXXXV/L in pencil (from the edition of 50 in Roman numerals on this paper, there were also 262 in Arabic numerals on Arches paper, published by A. H. Grafik, Stockholm, lacking the original portfolio and text, all framed.

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Sold for £5,715

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Evening & Day Editions

London Auction 19 - 20 September 2024