Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
The Vanguard Spirit: Modern and Surrealist Masterworks from an Important Estate
WIFREDO LAM | OMI OBINI
Auction Closed
June 30, 03:09 AM GMT
Estimate
8,000,000 - 12,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
The Vanguard Spirit: Modern and Surrealist Masterworks from an Important Estate
WIFREDO LAM
1902 - 1982
OMI OBINI
Signed Wifredo Lam and dated 1943 (lower right)
Oil on canvas
72 by 49 in.
182.9 by 124.5 cm
Painted in 1943.
L. Cabrera, Havana
Osuna Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Galerie H. Odermatt-Ph.Cazeau, Paris
Acquired from the above
J. Pierre, “L’Humanisme magique de Wifredo Lam” in XX siècle, no. 29, Paris, December 1967, no. 33, illustrated n.p.
Michel Leiris, Lam, Milan, 1970, no. 33, illustrated n.p.
Alain Jouffroy, Le Nouveau Nouveau monde de Lam, Altrouno, 1975, illustrated p. 36
Max-Pol Fouchet, Wifredo Lam, Barcelona & Paris, 1976, no. 58, illustrated p. 60
Lowery S. Sims “Syncretism and Syntax in the Art of Wifredo Lam” in Readings in Latin American Modern Art, Binghamton, 2004, pp. 93-94