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Legendary Masters: The Brillembourg Capriles Collection

Wifredo Lam

Femme violette

Auction Closed

November 17, 10:26 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Legendary Masters: The Brillembourg Capriles Collection

Wifredo Lam

1902 - 1982

Femme violette


signed Wifredo Lam and dated 1938 (lower left) 

gouache on paper laid down on panel 

38 by 26 1/4 in.

96.7 by 66.7 cm.

Executed in 1938. 

Perls Galleries, New York

D. Cantor, Indianapolis (acquired from the above)

CDS Gallery, New York (acquired from the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Lou Laurin-Lam & Eskil Lam, Wifredo Lam: Catalogue Raisonné of the Painted Work, Volume I 1923-1960, Lausanne, 1996, no. 38.69, p. 454, illustrated

Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Crosscurrents of Modernism, Four Latin American Pioneers: Diego Rivera, Joaquín Torres-García, Wifredo Lam, Matta, 1992, no. 52, p. 194, illustrated

Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Intersecting Modernities: Latin American Art from The Brillembourg Capriles Collection, 2013, no. 29, pp. 105 & 239, illustrated in color